Survey: Most Americans oppose laws restricting faculty free speech
HIGHER ED DIVE — This latest polling data comes as academic freedom has become a major issue for state and federal lawmakers. State legislative proposals that would restrict the topics colleges can teach are on the rise this year compared to 2021, according to an August report from PEN America.
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HIGHER ED DIVE — Law schools enrolled virtually no women through the first half of the 20th century. But the 1960s saw a number of cultural and policy changes, such as federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination in certain types of work and colleges removing rules barring women from the classroom.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A group of professors at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School signed a statement protesting a decision by some student groups to adopt a bylaw not to host Zionist speakers.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — At a ceremony at International Law Weekend Midwest on Sept. 30, Dean Michael Scharf and his co-authors, Dr. Paul Williams and Professor Milena Sterio, received the Association Internationale De Droit Pénal (AIDP) 2022 Book of the Year Award for “The Syrian Conflict’s Impact on International Law” (Cambridge…
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TODAY AT ELON — Krista Contino Saumby, who mentors and advises law students as associate director of career development, will develop programming and networking opportunities for attorneys across the Carolinas as a regional president of the Hispanic National Bar Association.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Faced with a growing energy crisis, record greenhouse gas concentrations, and increasing extreme weather events, attendees to the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seek renewed solidarity between countries to deliver on the landmark Paris Agreement for people and the…
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THE MINNESOTA DAILY — University of Minnesota Law professor Liliana Zaragoza creates a new clinic that takes a holistic legal approach to racial justice litigation while forming partnerships with communities in the Twin Cities.
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PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — Pace University Distinguished Professor Bennett L. Gershman was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the New York Law Journal’s 2022 New York Legal Awards on Thursday, October 6th.
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USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — USC Gould School of Law Professor Mugambi Jouet has been awarded the 2022 Alfred L. Brophy Prize by the American Journal of Legal History for a paper that expands the understanding of American legal history, from the founding era to the evolution of criminal punishment.
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USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — USC Gould School of Law Professor Emily Ryo is the recipient of a $337,000 National Science Foundation grant supporting her work in creating a unique, comprehensive dataset of immigration courts and judges that she hopes will advance the next generation of research on intersections between criminal and immigration law.
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