Yale Law Journal honors University of Virginia Law professor Payvand Ahdout with emerging scholar award
THE YALE LAW JOURNAL –The Yale Law Journal is thrilled to announce its inaugural Emerging Scholar of the Year: Payvand Ahdout. The Emerging Scholar of the Year Award, introduced by Volume 131, celebrates the achievements of early-career academics who have made significant contributions to legal thought and scholarship. It seeks to promote scholarship that has…
Read More about Yale Law Journal honors University of Virginia Law professor Payvand Ahdout with emerging scholar awardWashburn Law dean Carla Pratt to become University of Oklahoma Law’s inaugural Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Chair in Civil Rights, Race and Justice in Law
WIBW — Washburn University will say goodbye to School of Law Dean Carla Pratt after the school’s spring graduation. Washburn University says Law School Dean Carla Pratt will step down from her role after the school’s 2022 spring commencement ceremony. After almost 4 years of service to the school of law, Washburn said Pratt will return to her…
Read More about Washburn Law dean Carla Pratt to become University of Oklahoma Law’s inaugural Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Chair in Civil Rights, Race and Justice in LawBoston University Law professors James E. Fleming and Linda C. McClain to give lecture on federal litigation at Tulane Law
BIZ NEW ORLEANS — McGlinchey is pleased to announce the return of the annual Dermot S. McGlinchey Lecture on Federal Litigation at Tulane Law School. Professors James E. Fleming and Linda C. McClain, from Boston University School of Law, will deliver an address on a citizen’s right to be free from government orthodoxy. This year’s lecture…
Read More about Boston University Law professors James E. Fleming and Linda C. McClain to give lecture on federal litigation at Tulane LawUC Davis Law Professor to Speak on Legal History of Discrimination Against Asians
UC DAVIS LAW — As part of the UC Davis School of Law Racial Justice Speaker Series, Gabriel “Jack” Chin, professor of law, will speak about the legal history of discrimination against Asians and offer a perspective on the Atlanta murders at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday (March 31). The talk, via Zoom, will cover the history of legal…
Read More about UC Davis Law Professor to Speak on Legal History of Discrimination Against AsiansUC Irvine Law professor Shauhin Talesh named American Bar Association Fellow
UCI LAW — Professor Shauhin Talesh has been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). Membership is limited to just one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Members are nominated by their peers and selected by the ABF Board. The ABF Fellows is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law…
Read More about UC Irvine Law professor Shauhin Talesh named American Bar Association FellowCase Western Reserve Law report leads to recognition of Rohingya genocide by US State Department
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — It’s not often that law faculty get to shape the decision of the U.S. government on an important foreign policy matter. But CWRU School of Law faculty members and a prominent alumna got to do just that on March 21, 2022, when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced at a…
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law report leads to recognition of Rohingya genocide by US State DepartmentHarvard Law Animal Law and Policy Program director Chris Green discusses the importance of school’s Animal Law Week
HARVARD LAW TODAY — Animal law advocates will gather at Harvard Law School this week for the eighth annual Animal Law Week. The events, which will be a mixture of Zoom and in-person talks and will run from Mar. 22 through Mar. 29, are co-organized by the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at…
Read More about Harvard Law Animal Law and Policy Program director Chris Green discusses the importance of school’s Animal Law WeekHarvard scholar to analyze legacy of civil rights icon at UH Law Center’s Yale L. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Tomiko Brown-Nagin will lead a discussion entitled, “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality,” as the keynote speaker at the University of Houston Law Center’s annual Yale L. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture. The lecture will be held virtually through Zoom and will begin at 6:30 p.m. Central on…
Read More about Harvard scholar to analyze legacy of civil rights icon at UH Law Center’s Yale L. Rosenberg Memorial LectureHarvard Law professor David B. Wilkins looks at the history of Black lawyers in the US
HARVARD LAW TODAY — “This is a unique moment, particularly to be a Black law student,” Harvard Law School Professor David B. Wilkins ’80, told an audience of students during a late February talk titled Black Lawyers Matter — Race, Obligation, and Professionalism from the Civil Rights Movement to BLM and Black Corporate Power. Today, he said,…
Read More about Harvard Law professor David B. Wilkins looks at the history of Black lawyers in the USUniversity of Kansas Law professor Najarian Peters publishes paper on FERPA in the Washington and Lee Law Review
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS — Congress passed the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, known as FERPA, in 1974 in large part due to concerns about inaccurate and misleading data collected in schools that could negatively affect students. New research from Najarian Peters, associate professor of law at the University of Kansas, argues that FERPA should…
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