Penn Law professor Maureen Reilly discusses neurodiversity in the legal profession
PENN LAW — In the most recent bulletin published by the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Maureen Reilly, Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Office of Career Strategy, reviewed Great Minds Think Differently: Neurodiversity for Lawyers and Other Professionals by Haley Moss.
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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF LAW — The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics announced the recipients of its second annual CodeX Prize at this year’s CodeX FutureLaw 2022 Conference. CodeX FutureLaw brings together researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, investors, and policymakers worldwide to focus on how technology is changing the legal profession and the law itself…
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@THEU — The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2022 Distinguished Mentor Award recipients. This year’s awardees demonstrate exceptional commitment to the mentorship of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and others across campus and beyond. All of our awardees go above and beyond to foster an inclusive and welcoming community and to instill a culture…
Read More about University of Utah Law professor Leslie Francis honored with distinguished mentor awardWidener University Delaware Law professor Rodney Smolla named next president of Vermont Law School
VERMONT LAW SCHOOL — The Vermont Law School (VLS) Board of Trustees today announced that it has named Rodney A. Smolla incoming VLS president. The higher education leader and legal educator, litigator, scholar, and author will become the school’s president on July 1.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — After the U.S. Senate voted Thursday afternoon to confirm judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, a University of Virginia law professor, tried to call her friend, but Jackson’s voice mailbox was full. Robinson, who met Jackson when they were students at Harvard Law…
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LEGAL NEWS — The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the focus of law school deans according to the American Law School Dean Study, released recently by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) based on a survey by NORC at the University of Chicago.
Read More about AALS study looks at the career pathways, responsibilities, and challenges facing law school deansBlack law deans discuss how Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation will inspire students
REUTERS — The expected confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court could prompt a greater number of diverse students — particularly Black women — to pursue a law degree, legal educators predicted this week.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Numerous studies have shown that when classroom participation depends on volunteers, male students speak more often. The solution, three University of Virginia professors explain in a new paper focused on law school classes — is to call on students systematically, and with care.
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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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WISPOLITICS — Dr. Jessica Silbey, professor of law and Yanakakis Faculty Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law, will deliver Marquette University Law School’s Nies Lecture on Intellectual Property. Silbey’s lecture, “Questions of Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Digital Age,” will address how intellectual property law, originally envisioned in the Constitution as a regime…
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