Harvard Law professor Guy-Uriel Charles gives lecture on shifting legal stances on civil rights
HARVARD LAW — Harvard Law professor Guy-Uriel E. Charles discussed the decline of what he termed the “civil rights consensus” — a set of legal and political ideologies coming out of the American civil rights movement — at a Harvard Law School talk on Thursday. The lecture, titled “Identity Crisis: The Future of Racial Equality…
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RUTGERS LAW — Rutgers Law Associate Professor Thea Johnson authored a new collaborative report that indicates that plea bargaining, as currently practiced, is often unjust, unfair and lacks transparency. This is particularly concerning given that plea bargaining has become the primary way to resolve criminal cases in the United States, with nearly 98% of convictions…
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USC GOULD LAW — California is among seven states fighting over dwindling waters of the Colorado River. USC experts, including Gould’s Robin Craig, look at how we got here.
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SOUTHWESTERN LAW — On March 1, 2023, Southwestern Law School’s The Amicus Project filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court. The amicus brief represents the academic work product of Elena Cordonean, a 4L student who is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Southwestern Law Review. The brief is in support of the Petitioner in Billy…
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STANFORD LAW — A new book edited by Stanford Law School’s David Freeman Engstrom, the LSVF Professor in Law and co-director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, takes a deep dive into technological developments in the legal system, from virtual legal proceedings to AI-fueled litigation tools. In Legal Tech and the…
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Dean Risa Goluboff of the University of Virginia School of Law has been appointed to a federal committee that documents the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. President Joe Biden announced Goluboff’s appointment to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise on Friday.
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LAW — Peter Nicolas was in a parent-child music class with his daughter when he decided to pursue a long-dormant passion. Nicolas joined the University of Washington School of Law in 2000, and he’s nationally known as an expert in constitutional law, evidence, sexual orientation law and intellectual property. Now Nicolas has…
Read More about University of Washington Law professor Peter Nicolas launches music law and policy classWashington & Lee Law professor Kish Parella named international research fellow at Oxford University center
WASHINGTON & LEE LAW — W&L Law professor Kish Parella was recently appointed to Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation as an International Research Fellow. The Centre for Corporate Reputation is an independent research center within Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. Through their international research fellows program, the Centre partners with leading scholars like Professor…
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW — University of Chicago law professor William P. Baude discussed moving “beyond textualism” — a form of legal interpretation that draws conclusions based primarily on the plain meaning of legal documents — at Harvard Law School’s annual Scalia lecture held Monday. The lecture, established in 2013 to honor the late Supreme…
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FORDHAM LAW — Award-winning author and expert Dorothy Roberts discussed her career-spanning examination of the “closely entangled” connections between the child welfare and criminal legal systems at Fordham Law School on Feb. 1. Professor Roberts was invited to the Law School to give this year’s Eunice Carter Lecture, in which she discussed her most recent…
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