Lewis & Clark Law professor Kathleen M. Maloney advocates for forced marriage victims
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Visiting Law Professor Kathleen M. Maloney shared her expertise with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague this February, in a first of its kind appeal regarding groundbreaking convictions for forced marriages of young girls and women. The ICC is the world’s only permanent, independent tribunal with jurisdiction to investigate…
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law professor Kathleen M. Maloney advocates for forced marriage victimsLewis & Clark Law professor Dan Rohlf teaches environmental law course in Italy
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Noted environmental law professor Dan Rohlf received a Fulbright Award to serve as the Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento in northern Italy, teaching a class there entitled “Environmental Law, Sustainability, and Resilience” this Spring. The Fulbright teaching award is part of a busy year-long sabbatical for Rohlf…
Read More about Lewis & Clark Law professor Dan Rohlf teaches environmental law course in ItalyAn interview with Mercer Law interim dean Karen J. Sneddon
THE DEN — This Women’s History Month, The Den is celebrating some of Mercer University‘s top leaders — our female deans. Eight of Mercer’s 12 schools and colleges are led by women, and we are highlighting each of these deans on separate days throughout March. Today, we spotlight Karen J. Sneddon, interim dean of the School of…
Read More about An interview with Mercer Law interim dean Karen J. SneddonNorthern Kentucky University Law professor David Singleton’s Beyond Guilt initiative advocates for the early release of prisoners
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — There are a lot of guilty people in prison. And Professor David Singleton knows it. Some of them, though, have changed and deserve a second chance, he frequently tells students in his classes at Salmon P. Chase College of Law. And those who have changed – and have completed a significant portion of a…
Read More about Northern Kentucky University Law professor David Singleton’s Beyond Guilt initiative advocates for the early release of prisonersNorthern Kentucky University Law professor Alex Kreit publishes criminal law casebook
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — Every law student has been there: Sitting in class as the professor calls on students to explain a case in the casebook, trying to spot a pattern for when they might hear their name. In this instance, though, the scenario is flipped: Professor Alex Kreit is answering the questions, and he knows…
Read More about Northern Kentucky University Law professor Alex Kreit publishes criminal law casebookNorthwestern Law professor Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe represents asylum seekers in court
NORTHWESTERN MAGAZINE — Five floors up from the cacophony that is Chicago’s West Loop, inside a stone-still hearing room at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Chicago Immigration Court, where the ratcheted-up nerves and quickened breaths make for the sort of place you do not want to be, Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe ’96 is there to get the…
Read More about Northwestern Law professor Uzoamaka Emeka Nzelibe represents asylum seekers in courtPenn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia recognized for community leadership
CENTRE DAILY TIMES — Sitting in her middle school history class, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia was captivated by law and its power to inspire social change. Now she’s at the forefront of the classroom instead of in the seats — sculpting the next generation of immigration lawyers as the founder and director of the Center for Immigrants’…
Read More about Penn State Law professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia recognized for community leadershipPenn Law professor Lisa Fairfax introduces Ketanji Brown Jackson at Supreme Court confirmation hearing
THE HILL — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be introduced at her Senate confirmation hearing Monday by a former D.C. circuit court judge and a University of Pennsylvania law school professor. The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Sunday that Judge Thomas Griffith and professor Lisa Fairfax will each have five minutes to introduce Jackson, who will then have ten minutes for her…
Read More about Penn Law professor Lisa Fairfax introduces Ketanji Brown Jackson at Supreme Court confirmation hearingPenn Law course explores leadership and social change
PENN LAW — In the innovative and interdisciplinary course “Leading Social Change,” University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students identify the “One Big Thing” that they would like to change about the world. Over the semester, Lecturers in Law Benjamin Jealous and Dr. Ariel Schwartz help them to create a plan to achieve their goal. “I have…
Read More about Penn Law course explores leadership and social changePenn Law professor Stephen J. Morse publishes Criminal Law and Philosophy paper on executive function
PENN LAW — In a recently published article at Criminal Law and Philosophy, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law Stephen J. Morse challenges the characterization of executive function as a guiding mechanism that supports both responsible agency and the necessity for some excuses. Executive function is the umbrella term psychologists…
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