University of Hawai’i Law adjunct professor represents the Republic of Vanuatu in climate justice case
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I LAW — A lecturer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law who represented the Republic of Vanuatu for the past three years, has helped the country secure a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) requesting an advisory opinion on climate change from the International…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Family, friends, faculty, and students of University of Houston Law Center Professor Emeritus Stephen Zamora gathered to launch a new book, “Essays in Honor of Professor Stephen T. Zamora: A Life Between Mexico and the United States.” The book is a collection of 19 essays written by colleagues and…
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO LAW — Project for New Mexico Graduates of Color (PNMGC) recently recognized two outstanding faculty members at The University of New Mexico with signature awards at its annual Faculty of Color Awards (FOCA) ceremony. Project for New Mexico Graduates of Color is a student-led program working to retain students of color…
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NYU LAW — The American Bar Association has announced the recipients of the 2023 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award including a Hawaii Supreme Court justice, a New York University law professor, and Sidley Austin’s management committee chair.
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NORTHWESTERN LAW — Since coming to the Law School over 20 years ago, Wendy Muchman and Mary Foster have been able to completely change the way students interact with the subject of ethics and professional responsibility. The longtime friends and colleagues have created a curriculum so distinct that law professors around the country have advocated…
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USC GOULD LAW — New USC research exploring the pandemic experiences of the Navajo Nation and the Klamath Tribes underscores the need for the U.S. to honor tribal water rights that have been legally recognized — but never delivered on — for over a century.
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USC GOULD LAW — Andrew T. Guzman, noted scholar of international law and economics and current dean of the USC Gould School of Law, has been named USC’s next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, USC President Carol L. Folt announced Tuesday. As provost, Guzman will become USC’s second highest-ranking official and the…
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — Tracey Meares, who was unfairly denied the title of valedictorian at Springfield High School nearly 40 years (an incident discussed in last year’s documentary “No Title for Tracey”), has returned to the school for induction into the SHS Hall of Fame. Afterwards, she spoke live with WMAY’s Jim Leach about the…
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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.
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