Northwestern Law to host Yale Law professor Oona Hathaway for discussion of Russia-Ukraine war
NORTHWESTERN LAW — One year ago from this week, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, subjecting Ukrainian citizens to displacement, murder, sexual violence, kidnapping and torture. With no end to the Russia-Ukraine war in sight, legal scholars and policymakers worldwide debated how Russian instigators might be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. At an event…
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON LAW — Oregon Law professor and Philip H. Knight Chair Michael Moffitt has been invited to give the Beecroft Lecture at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Boyd School of Law. In his talk, “Truth. Regardless of Reconciliation?,” Professor Moffitt will discuss his research and teaching stemming from engagement with tribal…
Read More about University of Oregon Law professor Michael Moffitt to give lecture on indigenous communitiesPodcast: Rutgers law faculty discuss the school’s partnership with the New Jersey Innocence Project
RUTGERS LAW — Nyssa Taylor, Managing Staff Attorney at the New Jersey Innocence Project at Rutgers University, joins Co-Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor to discuss her work as a public defender and how that led her to head up this new project at Rutgers Law School.
Read More about Podcast: Rutgers law faculty discuss the school’s partnership with the New Jersey Innocence ProjectUSC Gould Law professor Nomi Stolzenberg honored with National Jewish Book Award
USC GOULD LAW — Professor Nomi Stolzenberg’s 2022 book American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York, was recently named winner of the Celebrate 350 Award in the American Jewish Studies category of the 72nd annual National Jewish Book Awards. The award, given by the National Jewish Book Council,…
Read More about USC Gould Law professor Nomi Stolzenberg honored with National Jewish Book AwardUSC Gould Law professor Mugambi Jouet discusses criminal justice research with public defenders from Mexico
USC GOULD LAW — Professor Mugambi Jouet was recently invited to present his findings on American criminal justice to a delegation of public defenders from Mexico City who were visiting Southern California as part of a continuing legal education opportunity offered by a nonprofit organization in Mexico. The event took place at the USC Gould School of…
Read More about USC Gould Law professor Mugambi Jouet discusses criminal justice research with public defenders from MexicoUSC Gould Law professor Erin Miller receives award from AALS Section on Jurisprudence
USC GOULD LAW — Professor Erin Miller is a co-winner of the 2023 Future Promise Award from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Jurisprudence. The award was presented at the AALS annual meeting in January in San Diego, Calif.
Read More about USC Gould Law professor Erin Miller receives award from AALS Section on JurisprudenceUniversity of Virginia Law professor Paul Stephan discusses relationship between data and armed conflict
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Given the current global practice of using big data to guide and monitor domestic populations as well as potential threats, Paul Stephan, who is also a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, raised legal questions like: could big data, which is growing in significance, be treated like…
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BAYLOR LAW — Bradley J. B. Toben, the longest serving dean among the American Bar Association-accredited law schools, will be stepping down after more than 31 years as dean of Baylor Law School. Toben, who graduated with his J.D. from Baylor Law in 1977 and became dean of his alma mater in 1991, will return…
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UCLA LAW — Constitutional law scholar Adam Winkler on Feb. 9 became the first UCLA professor to host a Reddit “Ask me anything.” Prompted by the spate of mass shootings in the U.S., Winkler, UCLA School of Law’s Connell Professor of Law, took to Reddit to provide context on historical and modern interpretations of U.S.…
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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT LAW — The Connecticut Bar Association has announced that Karen DeMeola, assistant dean of diversity, belonging and community engagement at the UConn School of Law, will receive the 2023 John Eldred Shields Distinguished Professional Service Award. The bar association established the award in 1981 in honor of a former association president. It…
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