College faculty voice concerns over using AI-detection software to uncover cheating
INSIDE HIGHER ED — When Turnitin was launched in 1998, the early ed-tech start-up promised a solution to one of the most pressing threats to academic integrity in the nascent internet era: easy plagiarism from online sources. Twenty-five years later, the question on every classroom instructor’s lips has shifted from “how do I know if my student is copying…
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(PrawfsBlawg) by Howard Wasserman — Professor Wasserman (FIU Law) shares his thoughts on the recent history of free speech issues in colleges and law schools and how those with different ideologies view the issues.
Read More about More thoughts on the ideological divide on free speechUniversity at Buffalo Law professor Samantha Barbas publishes book on threats to freedom of press
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO LAW — UB law school professor Samantha Barbas sends a clear message for factions out there who want to weaken press freedoms granted by the Supreme Court’s landmark New York Times v. Sullivan case: Just leave it alone.
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UC IRVINE LAW — UCI Law Professor Katie Tinto and the Criminal Justice Clinic (CJC) at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, secured the release of one of its clients, Don Cunningham, who had been serving a sentence of 277 years to life, and was incarcerated in California state prison for 26 years.…
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DUKE LAW — Nita Farahany, the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University and the founding director of the Duke Initiative for Science and Society, says most people know their cholesterol levels and heart rate, but most people don’t know what’s happening in their own brain.
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FORDHAM LAW — Jordana Confino, Assistant Dean of Professionalism, teaches Peer Mentoring and Leadership, and Positive Lawyering at Fordham University. In our latest podcast, Jordana shares the importance of positive psychology with examples of discussions she has had with her students to demonstrate how important it is for law students and lawyers to implement it…
Read More about Podcast: Fordham Law professor Jordana Confino discusses positive psychology in the law school classroomHarvard Law hosts law and neuroscience experts for discussion of criminal justice for adolescents
HARVARD LAW — Psychology professor B.J. Casey and attorney Marsha Levick discussed scientific and legal perspectives on criminally trying children as adults at a Harvard Law School talk Tuesday. Casey, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, and Levick, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, examined the ethics of U.S. laws that permit or require…
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NOTRE DAME LAW — A group of Notre Dame Law School students spent a week during spring break visiting banks, legal and financial firms, and academic institutions in London to see the practice and regulation of international capital markets. The experience was part of a short course, Venture Capital and Institutions of Transnational Financial Markets,…
Read More about Notre Dame Law professor Patrick Corrigan leads spring break course in London on international capital marketsPenn Carey Law professor Jasmine Harris authors article on accessibility in air travel in The Regulatory Review
PENN CAREY LAW — Jasmine Harris, Professor of Law, recently explored current air regulations that limit accessibility of air travel to people with disabilities at The Regulatory Review. Harris’s article is the first in a series of essays on “Mobility Justice,” in which experts discuss how regulators can make transportation systems more accessible and just.
Read More about Penn Carey Law professor Jasmine Harris authors article on accessibility in air travel in The Regulatory ReviewUniversity of Utah Law professor Hallie Pope recognized for public service work
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH LAW — Visiting Professor Hallie Pope has been named the recipient of the 2023-2024 Public Service Professor Award by the University of Utah’s Bennion Center for Community Engagement. The award recognizes Pope’s outstanding dedication to serving University of Utah students and local Utah communities, and is designed to assist her in enhancing…
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