Podcast: Suffolk Law dean Andrew M. Perlman discusses innovation and legal technology

March 9, 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 and…

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Case Western Reserve University Law professor Maxwell Mehlman appointed to Department of Defense post

March 9, 2022

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was appointed bioethics reviewer for the Department of Defense Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program. In this role, Mehlman, who also…

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Case Western Reserve University Law bioethics professor Sharona Hoffman named visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health

March 9, 2022

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is serving as a visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Department of Bioethics in Washington, D.C., during her spring semester sabbatical. As a…

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University of Chicago Law professor Joshua C. Macey honored by Arizona State University Law for article on energy policies

March 8, 2022

ASU NEWS — Joshua C. Macey, professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and Matthew R. Christiansen, general counsel at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, are the recipients of the 2022 Morrison Prize for their scholarly article “Long Live the Federal Power Act’s Bright Line.” Bestowed with the award last year, Macey is the first…

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New Columbia Law courses explore hot topics in the law

March 8, 2022

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Designing a seminar provides an opportunity for Columbia Law School faculty to create courses that are especially relevant to the moment and to glean new insights for their own scholarship from classroom discussions with students. The four courses highlighted here are new to the curriculum for spring 2022.

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Columbia Law professor Kerrel Murray discusses his experience working for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

March 8, 2022

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — On February 25, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to serve as associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. With nomination hearings about to be scheduled, Associate Professor of Law Kerrel Murray—a constitutional…

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An interview with University of Illinois Law professor and director of immigration law clinic Lauren Aronsson

March 8, 2022

THE DAILY ILLINI — Lauren Aronson walks through the double glass doors of the Immigration Law Clinic. In her hands, she holds a tea cup and eight files, bursting at the seams with sheets of paper. As she walks, she distributes the files, handing certain ones to students she passes on the way to her office…

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Marquette Law professor Charles Franklin presents at newsmaker luncheon

March 8, 2022

WISPOLITICS — Charles Franklin, Professor of Law and Public Policy and director of the Marquette Law School Poll, will be the featured guest at a Newsmaker Luncheon set for noon on Thursday, March 3, hosted by the Milwaukee Press Club and WisPolitics.com. Franklin will present an overview of Wisconsin politics for the 2022 election cycle and analyze the findings of…

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UNLV Law selects Leah Chan Grinvald as dean

March 8, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS — UNLV has named Leah Chan Grinvald as the next dean for the William S. Boyd School of Law, effective July 1, 2022. Grinvald, who was selected following a national search for the position, is currently associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law at Suffolk University Law School in…

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Northeastern Law professor Ari Waldman awarded Economic Security Project grants

March 8, 2022

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), has been awarded two research grants by the Anti-Monopoly Fund of the Economic Security Project (ESP). Waldman’s projects were among only 26 proposals selected to receive investment from the fund, which ESP launched in…

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