Elon Law Emergency Legal Services Program director Margaret Dudley honored by North Carolina Bar Association

May 18, 2022

TODAY AT ELON — Margaret Dudley, who leads Elon Law’s Emergency Legal Services Program, is among four lawyers recognized this year by the North Carolina Bar Association for legacies that represent “ceilings broken for all attorneys who follow in their footsteps and whose impacts on the legal profession are undeniable.”

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Harvard Law professor Guy-Uriel Charles elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

May 18, 2022

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Professor Guy-Uriel E. Charles, the Charles Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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An interview with Harvard Law’s new dean of students Stephen Ball

May 17, 2022

HARVARD LAW TODAY — More than a decade ago, before Stephen Ball ’10 headed off to law school, his father gave him a small placard: “When you get there, remember where you came from,” it said. While Ball says his father might have meant the words literally — his family has deep roots in Detroit,

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UIC Law associate dean Alicia Alvarez and Boston College Law professor Paul Tremblay publish new edition of Introduction to Transactional Lawyering Practice

May 17, 2022

UIC LAW — Professor Alicia Alvarez, Associate Dean for Experiential Education at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law (UIC Law), and co-author Paul R. Tremblay of Boston College Law School have published a long-awaited update to their respected Introduction to Transactional Lawyering Practice (West Academic).

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UIC Law professors Hugh Mundy, Steven Schwinn Named 2022-23 Lee Chairs in Constitutional Law

May 17, 2022

UIC LAW — For the first time in its history, the law school’s Edward T. & Noble W. Lee Chair in Constitutional Law has been jointly awarded to two scholars. Professors Hugh Mundy and Steven D. Schwinn will share the coveted professorship for the 2022-2023 academic year with Mundy holding the chair during the fall

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Podcast: Liberty University Law dean Morse Hyun-Myung Tan discusses vision for the school

May 17, 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. Host Patty Roberts, Dean of St. Mary’s University School of Law, will discuss innovations in legal education

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University of New Mexico Law professor Sonia Gipson Rankin named American Bar Foundation Fellow

May 17, 2022

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF LAW — Sonia Gipson Rankin has been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF).  Membership in the Fellows is limited to one percent (1%) of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Members are nominated by their peers and selected by the ABF Board.

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Notre Dame Law professor Carter Snead’s book recognized by New York Times

May 17, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE THE DAME LAW SCHOOL — A new article in the New York Times has recommended Notre Dame Law Professor O. Carter Snead’s book What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics (Harvard University Press, 2020) as one of “Ten Books to Understand the Abortion Debate in

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Penn Law awards legal scholar fellowships to Laura Dolbow and Ayodeji Perrin

May 17, 2022

PENN LAW — The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s George Sharswood Fellowship program supports burgeoning scholars as they embark on careers in legal academia. The Law School has named Laura Dolbow and Ayodeji Perrin L’13 as the news Sharswood Fellows.

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Penn Law professor Cary Coglianese named chair of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee on the US Coast Guard

May 17, 2022

PENN LAW — Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, has been named the Chair of an ad hoc National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee formed to identify emerging issues that are likely to demand U.S. Coast Guard services over the next decade and consider whether

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