USC Gould Law professor Deepika Sharma as commissioner on oversight committee addressing homelessness
USC GOULD LAW — Professor Deepika Sharma, founding director of the Housing Law and Policy Clinic at USC Gould School of Law, has been appointed to a citizens oversight committee supervising Measure ULA, a new property transfer tax approved by Los Angeles voters in 2022. Sharma, appointed by Mayor Karen Bass and approved by the…
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VILLANOVA LAW — Levine Lee LLP, a prominent New York litigation boutique, is proud to announce that Steven L. Chanenson, one of the nation’s leading scholars of criminal law and sentencing, is joining the firm as Of Counsel. Chanenson is Professor of Law at the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University, where he…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Douglas Laycock doesn’t remember all the events surrounding his public high school’s 1963 Christmas assembly. Half a century of appellate litigation, writing and teaching will do that. But he does clearly remember hearing the Christian Nativity story from the Gospel of Luke. And he remembers walking out in protest. Laycock,…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — University of Virginia School of Law professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, an education law expert known for empowering her students, has been named a recipient of one of this year’s All-University Teaching Awards. Robinson, a former education policy lawyer at the Department of Education, has been a member of the Law…
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WILLAMETTE LAW — Professor Buske, College of Law faculty, is teaching an International Children’s Rights course during the Summer 2023 intersession. Along with Professor Cook, she will take 12 students across the globe to Africa for a new perspective. While there for three weeks, students will have class sessions each morning and will spend the…
Read More about Willamette Law professor Sheryl Buske teaches course on international children’s rightsOpinion: Is it worth it to enforce ChatGPT bans in college writing?
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The sun descends and I’m still not through grading papers, because they take twice as long now that my students have learned about ChatGPT. First, I put all the papers through GPTZero, but there are too many false positives, so I take the flagged text and try to reverse engineer it…
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CAMPBELL LAW — Professor Bobbi Jo Boyd is Campbell Law School’s recipient of the Dean’s Excellence Award for 2023, Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced. Professor Boyd joined the Campbell Law faculty as a tenure-track professor in 2009 and was granted full tenure in 2018. She teaches Criminal Law to first-year students and Professional Responsibility…
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CUNY LAW — Sarah Lamdan, a University of Kansas alumna, author and law professor at the City University of New York, will return to the Lawrence campus to discuss her research and book on data collection practices and their implication on privacy. Lamdan will present a public lecture at 10 a.m. May 4 in Watson…
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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I LAW — The first night of group competition kicks off Friday night at the 60th Annual Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo. Many of the hula dancers taking the stage have pursued professional paths that are molded by and grounded in their love and commitment to hula. Makawao native Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum never…
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY MCKINNEY LAW — Indiana University McKinney School of Law professor Yvonne Dutton attended the American Society of International Law annual meeting from March 29-April 1 in Washington, D.C. She was a moderator and panelist for the Women in International Law Group’s business meeting. Dutton serves on the law group’s scholarship prize committee.
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