Opinion: UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky says efforts to ban critical race theory are misguided
THE SACRAMENTO BEE — As the country is fighting a pandemic, dealing with the worst economic crisis since the depression, battling unprecedented fires and smoke, the Trump administration is focusing on an attack on critical race theory.
Read More about Opinion: UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky says efforts to ban critical race theory are misguidedUC Berkeley Law professor Steven Davidoff Solomon receives grant for antisemitism education pilot program
THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN — The Antisemitism Education Initiative, a pilot program at UC Berkeley, received a $25,000 grant from the national nonprofit Academic Engagement Network, or AEN, on Sept. 10.
Read More about UC Berkeley Law professor Steven Davidoff Solomon receives grant for antisemitism education pilot programUCLA Law professor Sharon Dolovich discusses efforts to improve conditions and reduce prisons population amid COVID-19
SCIENCE — Even before COVID-19 began to sweep through U.S. correctional facilities, Michael Daniels saw the storm coming.
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NPR — For months, protests over the police-involved killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and others reinvigorated an intense debate over policing. Then, the mayor of Louisville, Ky., announced the city would pay $12 million to Breonna Taylor’s family and institute a number of police reforms.
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DUKE LAW — The gift will expand the center’s work over the next six years in three signature areas: accuracy of evidence in criminal cases, the role of equity in criminal outcomes, and the mental and behavioral health treatment needs of people in the justice system.
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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF LAW — A global pandemic, disrupted economies, and the run-up to a presidential election were all front and center in Spring and Summer of 2020. Yet when unarmed George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, protests against police brutality and racism began in Minneapolis and spread around the…
Read More about University of Iowa Law establishes Anti-Racism Action CommitteeUniversity of Miami Law hosts webinar on NFL’s ‘Rooney Rule’ that mandates candidates of color are interviewed for open head coach positions
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law’s virtual “The Rooney Rule, Race, and Access in Athletics: A Fireside Chat with Jim Rooney and Jeremi Duru,” will host Jim Rooney and Jeremi Duru on September 30th to discuss the “Rooney Rule” in the National Football League.
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PITTSBURGH CURRENT — It has been a touch over 10 years since Jordan Miles’ violent encounter with the Pittsburgh Police in Homewood shook the city.
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UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — University of St. Thomas School of Law Professor Gregory Sisk has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Brownback v. King.
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THE DAILY PROGRESS — The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Friday unanimously passed a package of six resolutions, including removing the George Rogers Clark statue and the ‘Whispering Wall’ Confederate monument and providing context to the Thomas Jefferson statue near the Rotunda to include Jefferson’s ownership of slaves.
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