Northeastern Law professor Margaret A. Burnham publishes book on cold cases of racial violence
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — In summer 2020, when the murder of George Floyd was igniting protests in Minneapolis and around the country, it occurred to Margaret A. Burnham that “George Floyd” was a common-sounding name. She then began a search that found the deaths of many others. Burnham is the founder and director…
Read More about Northeastern Law professor Margaret A. Burnham publishes book on cold cases of racial violenceNortheastern Law professor Martha Davis named fellow of Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Martha Davis, an internationally recognized expert on human rights, has been appointed as a 2022-2023 fellow of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The hub of the Harvard Kennedy School’s research, teaching and training in the human rights domain, the Carr Center embraces a dual mission: to…
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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Martha Davis, an internationally recognized expert on human rights, contributed a chapter to the winner of the inaugural European Society of International Law Collaborative Book Prize. Her chapter, “Finding International Law ‘Close to Home’: The Case of Human Rights Cities,” appears in Research Handbook on International Law and…
Read More about Northeastern Law professor Martha Davis co-authors winner of international law collaborative book prizeNortheastern Law professor Michael Meltsner publishes novel on civil rights-era cold case
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Law professor Michael Meltsner is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law at Northeastern University, and his new novel, “Mosaic: Who Paid for the Bullet?” dramatizes the investigation of a murdered doctor in the Jim Crow-era South of the 1960s.
Read More about Northeastern Law professor Michael Meltsner publishes novel on civil rights-era cold caseNotre Dame Law professor Emily Bremer honored by AALS Section on Administrative Law with emerging scholar award
NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law Professor Emily Bremer is the winner of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Administrative Law’s Emerging Scholar Award for 2023. Bremer won the recognition for her article The Rediscovered Stages of Agency Adjudication, which was published last year in the Washington University Law Review.
Read More about Notre Dame Law professor Emily Bremer honored by AALS Section on Administrative Law with emerging scholar awardPace Law professor Noa Ben-Asher delivers lecture on gender identity
PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Noa Ben-Asher delivered the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law lecture on Wednesday, October 26, on “Gender Identity, the New Legal Sex.” Dean Horace Anderson appointed Professor Ben-Asher as the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2021-2023 term. During the holder’s term, the James…
Read More about Pace Law professor Noa Ben-Asher delivers lecture on gender identityPenn Carey Law professor Yanbai Andrea Wang and Arizona State University Law professor Justin Weinstein-Tull co-author book on pandemic governance
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSLYVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — In “Pandemic Governance,” published in the Boston College Law Review, Assistant Professor of Law Yanbai Andrea Wang and Justin Weinstein-Tull of the Arizona State University College of Law explore the chaos of the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic and contend that the incoherent response from the U.S.…
Read More about Penn Carey Law professor Yanbai Andrea Wang and Arizona State University Law professor Justin Weinstein-Tull co-author book on pandemic governanceStanford Law professor Anne Joseph O’Connell appointed to position in Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL — On September 27th, 2022, President Biden appointed Anne Joseph O’Connell, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). ACUS is an independent, non-partisan federal agency within the executive branch dedicated to improving administrative law and federal regulatory…
Read More about Stanford Law professor Anne Joseph O’Connell appointed to position in Council of the Administrative Conference of the United StatesUniversity of Utah Law professor Jeff Schwartz honored for excellence in legal research
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — Professor Jeff Schwartz recently won the 2022 Berkeley Center for Law and Business Best Paper Award. This prestigious award, presented by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Berkeley School of Law, highlights current legal research in environmental, social and governance issues and brings together leading legal scholars,…
Read More about University of Utah Law professor Jeff Schwartz honored for excellence in legal researchStacy Leeds named as dean of Arizona State University Law
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW — After over a year of searching the candidate that was chosen was already part of ASU’s academic community — Stacy Leeds. The experienced leader and renowned legal scholar joined ASU in 2021, as Foundation Professor of Law and Leadership at ASU, where she teaches in…
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