Northeastern Law professor Martha Davis to brief US Commission on Civil Rights on water affordability

January 27, 2022

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Martha Davis, faculty director for Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, will brief the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) today at noon about the serious crisis of water affordability in Massachusetts. A member of the Commission’s Massachusetts State Advisory Committee (Mass. SAC), Davis will

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Northeastern Law professor Stephanie Hartung and recent graduate Erin Stewart author report on Massachusetts’ “cradle-to-prison” pipeline

January 27, 2022

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Stephanie Roberts Hartung and Erin Stewart ’21, a Skadden Fellow at Citizens for Juvenile Justice, are co-authors of “Criminalizing a “Rough Life”: A Study of Systems Involvement Among Incarcerated People in Massachusetts”— a report illuminating the results of Phase 1 of Northeastern’s Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline (C2P) jail and prison survey.

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University of North Carolina Law Center for Civil Rights director Theodore M. Shaw speaks at NAACP MLK Day celebration

January 26, 2022

THE DAILY TARHEEL — The Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a virtual event on Monday morning, which premiered on its YouTube channel. The virtual celebration featured prerecorded videos of the UNC Gospel Choir, an interview with School of Law professor and Center for Civil Rights Director Theodore M. Shaw, a poem by

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Northern Kentucky University Law professor Michael Mannheimer elected to American Law Institute

January 26, 2022

NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — Salmon P. Chase College of Law Professor Michael Mannheimer has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute, the leading organization in the United States producing scholarly works to help judges, lawyers and legislators in their thinking on clarifying, modernizing and improving the law. Professor Mannheimer is the author of more than

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Podcast: Dean Katheleen Guzman discusses her career and vision for University of Oklahoma Law

January 26, 2022

ANCHOR BY SPOTIFY — Legal education is experiencing explosive 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 explore the opinions of legal education leaders regarding

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Pace Law professors co-author book on climate change law

January 26, 2022

PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Professors Karl S. Coplan, Shelby D. Green, Katrina Fischer Kuh, Smita Narula, Karl R. Rábago (former professor), and Radina Valova, announce the release of their book “Climate Change Law: An Introduction” published by Edward Elgar Publishing. The book combines an introduction

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University of Southern California Law professor Jody David Armor reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy

January 26, 2022

NBC BAY AREA — California Live’s Danielle Nottingham caught up with USC Law Professor, Jody David Armour to discuss Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. As an eight-year-old, Professor Armour remembers dialing in on the feelings and emotions surrounding Dr. King’s assassination and not fully grasping the impact until years later. He shares what MLK Day means

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University of Tennessee Law names Lonnie T. Brown as dean

January 26, 2022

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE NEWS — Lonnie T. Brown Jr. has been named dean of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Law and Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law. He begins July 1. Brown, the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism at the University

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Podcast: Dean Bobby Ahdieh discusses evolution of Texas A&M Law

January 26, 2022

ED UP LEGAL — Legal education is experiencing explosive 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 explore the opinions of legal education leaders regarding

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University of Utah Law professor Jorge Contreras elected to American Law Institute

January 26, 2022

THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH S.J. QUINNEY COLLEGE OF LAW — Jorge Contreras, professor at the College of Law and University of Utah presidential scholar, has been elected to The American Law Institute (ALI). Contreras was one of 59 legal scholars and practitioners from across the United States who were selected to join ALI this year. The American

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