Rutgers Law professor Jorge Contesse elected to United Nations Committee Against Torture
RUTGERS — Rutgers Law Professor Jorge Contesse was elected to the United Nations (UN) Committee Against Torture (CAT) on October 19, 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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THE COLUMN — Washington and Lee law professor Brandon Hasbrouck has published an article in the UCLA Law Review. The article, “Democratizing Abolition,” examines the shortcomings of past attempts at liberation and proposes strategies informed by their lessons.
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YALE JOURNAL ON REGULATION — Please join me in congratulating Professors Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan for winning the ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section’s 2023 Annual Scholarship Award, which recognizes the best scholarly work published in the field of administrative law during 2022.
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THE NATIONAL JURIST — At the end of every class, I give my students a “Two Minutes of Zen” talk — advice for navigating the ups and downs of law school. One of the talks my students seem to remember most is what I call the “Maybe Mindset,” which starts with the Taoist story of…
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — On Sept. 27, Jessie Hill argued a case entitled Preterm-Cleveland v. David Yost before the Ohio Supreme Court.
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CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER — Prosecutors often portray street criminals as evil people preying on innocent victims. But rarely does evil enter into a prosecutors’ vocabulary when portraying corporate crime. Iowa Law Professor Mihailis Diamantis explores this question in a new paper titled – The Monster Within: Representing Corporate Evil.
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THE DEN — A Georgia man is now free and cleared of murder charges after fighting to prove his innocence for 22 years. Joey Watkins was exonerated on Sept. 21 in Floyd County, and a Mercer Law School professor and two students are part of the defense team that worked to free him.
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME — The Notre Dame Law School community celebrated Professor Christian Burset‘s new book, “An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy,” at a reception on Wednesday, Oct. 4 in Eck Commons.
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SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — Justin Levitt, Professor of Law and Gerald T. McLaughlin Fellow at Loyola Law School, and the inaugural White House Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Voting Rights during 2021-2022, delivered the 2023 Constitution Day Lecture at Southwestern Law School.
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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — Professor Todd Berger, director of advocacy programs at Syracuse University College of Law, has joined the American Bar Association’s Law Student Podcast, part of the Legal Talk network of podcasts, as the faculty host.
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