Harvard Law adds assistant clinical professor Joshua C. McDaniel to the faculty

February 21, 2024

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Joshua C. McDaniel, the director of Harvard Law School’s Religious Freedom Clinic, was named an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Law School, effective Jan. 1.  

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Harvard Law professor Daniel Medwed discusses research on wrongly convicted prisoners

February 21, 2024

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Tens of thousands of innocent people are languishing in prison across the United States, according to studies cited by the Innocence Project. 

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University of Houston Law Center announces Faculty Workshop Series

February 21, 2024

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Law professors from across the country will visit the University of Houston Law Center to discuss their works in progress with University of Houston law faculty and students as part of the 2024 UHLC Spring Workshop Series. 

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Indiana University Maurer Law professor Jody Madeira announces candidacy for county commissioner

February 21, 2024

INDIANA PUBLIC MEDIA –Indiana University law professor Jody Madeira is running for the Monroe County Commissioner District 3 seat. 

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University of Kansas Law professor discusses risks in using artificial intelligence for academic writing

February 21, 2024

KU SCHOOL OF LAW — One of the biggest concerns regarding artificial intelligence is that people will use it as a writing tool, then pass off the results as their own work. But when Andrew Torrance and Bill Tomlinson tried to list AI as a co-author on a law review article, journals didn’t like that either.

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University of Michigan Law professor Roseanna Sommers recognized for work in law and psychology

February 21, 2024

MICHIGAN LAW — The Society for Personality and Social Psychology has recognized Professor Roseanna Sommers for her interdisciplinary work examining legal concepts such as consent, autonomy, and moral responsibility.

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Pace Law dean emeritus Richard Ottinger co-publishes book on pollution in major cities

February 20, 2024

PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — Dean Emeritus Richard Ottinger, of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, and Professor Wang Xi, of Kunming University of Science and Technology in China, have published a book that compares efforts to curb air pollution in two of the world’s largest urban areas, Los

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Rutgers Law professor Ruth Anne Robbins helps pass domestic violence law

February 20, 2024

RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL — Years of work by Professor Ruth Anne Robbins, her students, and their partners at the NJ Coalition to End Domestic Violence (NJCEDV) culminated on January 8 in the signing of bill A-1475, which requires the court to consider information regarding coercive control in domestic violence proceedings.

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St. Mary’s University Law associate dean Romona Lampley discusses passion for humanitarian causes

February 20, 2024

ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY — Ramona Lampley, J.D., is a self-proclaimed “farm girl from North Carolina.” As a child, her first encounter with an attorney was at a county commissioner’s office, where the local farmers had hired a lawyer to represent them in a rezoning dispute.

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University of St. Thomas Law professor Rachel Moran to study policing in Chile as Fulbright Scholar

February 20, 2024

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS NEWSROOM — Law Professor Rachel Moran has been chosen as a U.S. Scholar by the prestigious Fulbright Program. She will travel to South America in the fall of 2024 to study, “Policing in Times of Mass Protest: Lessons from Uprisings in the United States and Chile.”

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