Pace Law professor Margot Pollans wins honored for scholarship

October 12, 2022

PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is proud to announce that Professor Margot Pollans was awarded the 2022 Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship for her article, “Eaters, Powerless by Design” published by Michigan Law Review (120 Mich. L. Rev. 643 (2022)). 

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Gift to Northwestern Law to support faculty

October 12, 2022

NORTHWESTERN NOW — Past chair of Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees J. Landis “Lanny” Martin ’68, ’73 JD, ’22 H and Sharon Martin (’02, ’08 P) have made a $3 million gift to endow faculty positions at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. 

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Gift to Northern Kentucky University Law will create endowed faculty chair

October 12, 2022

NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — Cincinnati philanthropists David and Nancy Wolf have extended their commitment to justice and fairness through a $1 million gift to Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law to endow a faculty chair in legal ethics and professionalism.  

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Northeastern Law professor Margaret Burnham publishes book on the Jim Crow era

October 11, 2022

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — In By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022), Burnham examines the true scope and nature of Jim Crow-era violence, the laws that condoned it, and their legacy today. 

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Northeastern Law professor Daniel Medwed publishes book on innocent people being released from prison

October 11, 2022

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Daniel Medwed has spent more than 20 years in the field of criminal justice, serving as a public defender, as cofounder of a law school clinic that investigated post-conviction innocence claims, and now as a professor at Northeastern University School of Law advocating for justice reform.

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Mitchell Hamline Law professor Brad Colbert honored for outstanding service

October 11, 2022

MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Mitchell Hamline professor Brad Colbert ‘85 is one of six people being recognized by the Minnesota Justice Foundation. The organization is honoring Colbert with its Legal Services award for his years of work to increase access to justice for people impacted by incarceration. 

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Loyola Law New Orleans professor Andrea Armstrong testifies on uncounted deaths in US prisons

October 11, 2022

THE MAROON — Senator Jon Ossoff unveiled the results of his 10-month bipartisan investigation into uncounted deaths in America’s prisons and jails in a Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Sept. 20. 

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Podcast: Georgia State University Law professor Eric Segall discusses teaching constitutional law

October 11, 2022

STAND UP WITH PETE DOMINICK — Today is “constitution day” in America- whatever that means. Just some  fake weird holiday that the constitutional law world created I guess but we never need an excuse to talk to Eric Segall.

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University of Virginia Law students create online exhibit to honor women graduates from the school

October 11, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Fifty years in, Virginia Law Women — one of the first student affinity groups at UVA — is going back in time to recapture its lost history, particularly its evolution as a diverse organization. 

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Podcast: Willamette Law dean Brian Gallini discusses experience becoming a dean during the pandemic

October 11, 2022

ED UP LEGAL — Legal education is experiencing large swings in applications; a call for innovation & adaptation; demand for increased diversification of the profession; & cries for social justice impact & protection of the Rule of Law.

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