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Willamette Law professor Symeon Symeonides publishes survey on conflict of laws
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — For the past 30 years, Willamette Law Dean Emeritus and Professor Symeon Symeonides spent Thanksgiving weekend collecting up to 6,000 American conflicts-of-laws cases to write an annual survey on the topic. He always completed the survey by his self-imposed deadline of New Year’s Eve.
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Utah and Texas prohibit public colleges from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for students
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — As a small but growing number of colleges announce that they’ll require students to get a Covid-19 vaccine, two state governments have prohibited their public colleges from doing so. Utah legislators enacted a law forbidding government agencies to require people to receive a Covid-19 vaccine.
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Northeastern University to require COVID-19 vaccine for students returning to campus this fall
NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — All students returning to Northeastern University’s campuses for the Fall 2021 term will be expected to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the first day of classes, university officials said today. The university advances its plan for a return to full-time, in-person learning in September.
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Upcoming Symposia at Law Schools
- The 30th Annual Law Review Virtual Symposium: The Future of Space Regulation — DePaul University College of Law — April 10, 2021
- Law Review Symposium: Pandemic Practices: COVID-19 and Its Impact on the Law — Widener University Commonwealth Law School — April 9, 16, and 23, 2021
- “Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System” — University of Minnesota Law School — April 12, 2021
- Building an Anti-Racist Curriculum Symposium — Rutgers Law School — April 12, 14 and 16, 2021
- International Law & COVID-19 Symposium — University of Miami School of Law — April 12 and 16, 2021
- 42nd annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture — Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology — April 13, 2021
- 2021 Herzog Memorial Lecture Towards Symbiosis: The Interconnections between Law and Well-being in a Time of Crisis — University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School — April 13, 2021
- USC Gould Center for Dispute Resolution & JAMS’ Fifth Annual Symposium: Bridging the Common and Civil Law Chasm (FREE Webinar 2 of 3 — “You’ve Got to Have (Good) Faith — Or Do You?” The Arbitrator’s Approach to Contract Interpretation Issues) — University of Southern California Gould School of Law — April 14, 2021
- #MiamiTech Movement and the Law Conference — University of Miami School of Law — April 14, 2021
- 18th Annual Dominick L. DiCarlo U.S. Court of International Trade Lecture A Conversation with Hon. Mark A. Barnett — University of Illinois at Chicago John Marshall Law School — April 15, 2021