Vermont Law president Rodney Smolla aids in major defamation case
VERMONT LAW — Vermont Law and Graduate School President Rodney Smolla was sitting in a board of trustees meeting on Tuesday when he found out he won his “own Super Bowl,” he said. Three years ago, Smolla, an expert on defamation and libel law, was pulled on to Dominion Voting Systems’ legal team to craft…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — University of Virginia School of Law professor Danielle Citron, an expert in privacy law who has advanced the idea of intimate privacy as a civil right, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780 during the American Revolution, the American Academy of Arts and…
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW — Jeffrey Bellin, Cabell Research Professor and Mills E. Godwin Jr. Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School, recently authored a new book offering a critical examination of mass incarceration in the United States. Published this year by Cambridge University Press, its title is “Mass Incarceration Nation: How the…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Now in its ninth iteration, the ACE College President Study, first produced in 1986, offers various insights into those who occupy executive offices at institutions of higher education. Data for the survey were collected in 2022, meaning the results here reflect answers from the last year. The survey—which was completed by…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — One of the world’s largest scientific publishers refused to reduce its $3,450 fee to publish in NeuroImage. All the editors left to start their own journal. On Monday, every editor at NeuroImage and the NeuroImage: Reports companion journal—over 40 people—resigned. “It’s a pretty big exodus,” said Cindy Lustig, a University of Michigan at Ann Arbor psychology professor…
Read More about All editors leave scientific journal after the journal refused to lower article publishing chargesAn interview with UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky
UC BERKELEY LAW — Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law since 2017, has been at the forefront of free speech advocacy for the past four decades. From previously serving as the dean of the UC Irvine School of Law and holding appointments at the law schools of Duke University, the University of Southern California and…
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW — In a new University of Chicago Law School seminar, Professor Emily Buss (U. Chicago Law) and ten law students co-taught incarcerated high school students about the constitutional rights of minors. Host Andrew Zeller, Professor Buss, and Heidi Mueller, director of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice, discuss the rewarding and…
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ELON LAW — Professor Henry Gabriel will spend three months this spring as a distinguished visitor with Cambridge University’s Wolfson College where he will research comparative commercial law at the Center for Corporate and Commercial Law.
Read More about Elon Law professor Henry Gabriel elected visiting fellow at Cambridge UniversityPodcast: Legal Director of the ACLU in DC and Harvard Law lecturer Scott Michelman discusses his legal career
HARVARD LAW — Legal Director of the ACLU in D.C. and Shikes Fellow on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, Scott Michelman talks about his experience at the ACLU from his start as an intern to what he is currently working on. He speaks on the story behind…
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ABA JOURNAL — It’s been almost a month since ABA notice was posted that the University of Oregon School of Law was out of compliance for a diversity accreditation standard, and Marcilynn Burke, the dean, still hasn’t figured out why. She’s in the process of finding out, and in the meantime, is getting a report ready to…
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