Yale Law professor Emily Bazelon leads Prison Letters Project
YALE DAILY NEWS — After publishing a story on the exoneration of a prisoner named Yutico Briley, Yale Law School professor Emily Bazelon ’93 LAW ’00, began to receive letters from incarcerated people who had heard about her story. Now, Bazelon and several law school students are working to make sure the voices behind the…
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BOSTON COLLEGE NEWS — Nationally recognized attorney and racial justice advocate Jeffery Robinson, founder and CEO of the Who We Are Project and writer of the documentary “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America,” will formally begin his tenure as the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law and Public Policy at…
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CLEVELAND MARSHALL COLLEGE OF LAW — Lee Fisher, Dean of CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, brings the unique leadership perspective he gained in his extensive career spanning the public, private and nonprofit sectors to a bi-weekly podcast, “Living Justice. Living Leadership.” The podcast launches September 7, 2022 with inaugural guest U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown.
Read More about CSU Cleveland-Marshall Law dean Lee Fisher launches leadership podcastNYU Law professor Richard Revesz nominated to White House Regulations Office post
BLOOMBERG LAW — President Joe Biden will nominate environmental law attorney Richard Revesz to lead the White House’s regulations office, which hasn’t had a permanent leader in nearly two years. If confirmed, the New York University law professor would lead the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a team that wields tremendous power over how federal agencies…
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PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has announced that the 2022 Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy will be awarded to Professor Paulo de Bessa Antunes, an environmental scholar and leading professor of environmental law at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio…
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — Carol Olson Endowed Professor of Law Stephen McCaffrey recently argued a case on behalf of Chile before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague. The case, entitled, “Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala,” concerns the Silala River, which emerges from springs in Bolivia…
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PENN STATE — Geoffrey Scott, professor of law and director of the Arts, Sports, and Entertainment Law Clinic at Penn State Law in University Park, has co-authored the second edition of “Entertainment Law on a Global Stage“ with Mary LaFrance (UNLV) and Lionel Sobel (UCLA); it was published this July by West Academic Publishing.
Read More about Penn State Law professor Geoffrey Scott releases second edition of entertainment law bookYale Law students and faculty hold events related to US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision
YALE NEWS — The Supreme Court’s late June ruling that struck down Roe v. Wade ignited campus-wide conversations surrounding reproductive rights among Yale Law School students and professors.
Read More about Yale Law students and faculty hold events related to US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decisionMitchell Hamline Law students Maureen Onyelobi and Jeffery Young are the first to attend law school from prison
NEXT CITY — In August, Maureen Onyelobi and Jeffery Young began classes with St. Paul’s Mitchell Hamline School of Law in pursuit of law degrees. Unlike most remote students, who might Zoom into their classes from home or a co-working space, they’re dialing in from two of Minnesota’s correctional facilities – Onyelobi from a women’s…
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PACE UNIVERSITY ELIZABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Elizabeth D. Katz of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law has been selected as the 2021-2022 Haub Law Emerging Scholar in Gender & Law for her paper Sex, Suffrage, and State Constitutional Law: Women’s Legal Right to Hold Public Office, 33 Yale J. Law…
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