A look at the University of Maryland Carey Law Federal Appellate Immigration Clinic

December 18, 2023

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FRANCIS KING CAREY SCHOOL OF LAW — Assistant Professor Aadhithi Padmanabhan encourages students in the newly established Federal Appellate Immigration Clinic at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law to take on the tough cases. “When you take a case that other people might not take, that’s where you…

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University of St. Thomas Law professor Thomas Berg receives award for book on religious liberty

December 18, 2023

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS — Law professor Thomas Berg’s latest book, Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age (Eerdmans), received an Award of Merit in the Politics and Public Life category of the 2024 Christianity Today Book Awards.

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SIU Law professor Christopher Behan to give lecture on justice issues in Kenya

December 18, 2023

THE SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN — Christopher Behan, a professor at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Law will discuss access to justice issues in Kenya during the Southern Illinois chapter of the United Nations Association’s Human Rights Day celebration on Sunday, Dec. 10. 

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University of Virginia Law highlights faculty featured in documentaries

December 18, 2023

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Whether they’re behind podiums or in front of cameras, it turns out professors at the University of Virginia School of Law know a thing or two about how to captivate an audience.

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Professors embrace playful approach to higher education 

December 18, 2023

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Lisa Forbes was fed up with expectations that professors should take a rigid approach to teaching. She co-founded Professors at Play, which connects faculty interested in playful pedagogy.

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Why faculty are leaving Florida colleges

December 18, 2023

THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — By the time she took a faculty position with Florida State University College of Law, Mary Ziegler had earned a degree from Harvard Law School, worked as a postdoctoral associate at Yale Law School, and clerked at the Vermont Supreme Court.

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Podcast: University of North Carolina professor Barbara Osborne and Marquette Law professor Matthew Mitten discuss books on sports law 

December 15, 2023

ASPEN LEADING EDGE — Barbara Osborne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Matt Mitten, Marquette University, talk about what is new in sports law including antitrust issues, transgender athlete participation (both on the national and international level), and updates in colligate sports.

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University at Buffalo Law faculty attend international Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference

December 15, 2023

UBNOW — The co-directors of UB’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center played vital roles in the recent international Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, organizing and hosting a key conference and addressing comprehensive issues of economic trade under the scrutiny of international leaders.

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Columbia Law hosts conference honoring late professor Joseph Raz

December 15, 2023

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Legal philosophers from Columbia Law School helped organize a recent conference to interrogate and celebrate the legacy of one of their field’s titans, longtime Columbia Law Professor Joseph Raz, who died in May 2022 at the age of 83.

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Columbia Law professor Elizabeth Scott honored by American Law Institute for work in family law

December 15, 2023

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Legal scholars, judges, advocates, and practitioners in family law gathered at Columbia Law School in September to discuss The American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law and to celebrate its lead reporter, Elizabeth Scott, Harold R. Medina Professor Emerita of Law.

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