Penn Law fellow Allison M. Whelan discusses her work with public health and the law

April 13, 2022

PENN STATE LAW — Allison M. Whelan is a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and an Associate Fellow at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and teaching encompass a broad set of medical, science, and social policy issues at the intersection of

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Penn Law professor Dorothy E. Roberts publishes a book on inequities in the child welfare system

April 13, 2022

PENN LAW — Professor Dorothy E. Roberts’ new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World​, was published by Basic Books on April 5. Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology

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Penn State Dickinson Law professor Dermot Groome provides resources for international humanitarian law in support of Ukraine

April 12, 2022

PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Penn State Dickinson Law Professor Dermot Groome, a former war crimes prosecutor for the United Nations, has launched Justice for Ukraine, a webpage offering resources to support the work of prosecutors and human rights investigators in Ukraine as they gather and preserve evidence of international crimes. An expert in the field of

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Southern Illinois University Law professor Cindy Buys to teach international and comparative law in Poland

April 12, 2022

THE DAILY EGYPTIAN — Southern Illinois University (SIU) Law Professor Cindy Buys is visiting Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland as a part of its one-year International and Comparative Law Program for the next two months.

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Southwestern Law adjunct professor Iryna Zaverukha to give lecture on the invasion of Ukraine

April 12, 2022

SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — The discussion will address Russian manipulation of the international legal framework; the inefficiency of the global response to the Russian threat; and the Ukrainian fight for their very lives and for democracy.

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St. Louis University Law professor Afonso Seixas-Nunes participates in international war crimes conference

April 12, 2022

THE UNIVERSITY NEWS — On March 4th, the prestigious London-based policy institute Chatham House held a virtual conference attended by many leading academic and diplomatic figures. The goal of the conference was to explore the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute war crimes committed by the Russian Federation in Ukraine.

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University of Utah Law professor Leslie Culver recognized by university’s Black Cultural Center

April 12, 2022

S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — Professor Leslie Culver recently received the Marcus Garvey Black Star Excellence Award from the University of Utah’s Black Cultural Center. In collaboration with the Black Faculty and Staff Association, the Black Cultural Center honors Black faculty and staff for their work on campus and in the community with the Black Faculty

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UC Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky: Free speech doesn’t mean protesters can shut down campus events

April 11, 2022

THE WASHINGTON POST — Freedom of speech does not include a right to shout down others so they cannot be heard. Two recent incidents at law schools where protesting students sought to keep invited speakers from addressing their audiences are deeply troubling. In both cases, those defending the disruptive students have said their actions came

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Podcast: Campbell Law dean J. Rich Leonard discusses the transition from working in government to becoming a law school dean

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

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Baylor Law professor Josh Borderud honored by American Inns of Court

April 11, 2022

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY LAW — Baylor Law faculty member and Waco City Councilman Joshua G. Borderud (J.D.’ 09) received the 2020 American Inns of Court Sandra Day O’Connor Award for Professional Service at the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, March 26th, 2022.

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