University of North Carolina Law Center for Civil Rights director Theodore M. Shaw speaks at NAACP MLK Day celebration
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 — 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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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 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…
Read More about Pace Law professors co-author book on climate change lawUniversity of Southern California Law professor Jody David Armor reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy
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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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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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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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…
Read More about University of Utah Law professor Jorge Contreras elected to American Law InstituteYale Law reappoints dean Heather Gerken to another five-year term
REUTERS — Yale University said Wednesday that it has reappointed Heather Gerken to another five-year term as dean of its law school. Yale President Peter Salovey in a statement praised Gerken’s navigation of the COVID-19 pandemic, her fundraising and her efforts to diversify the student body. He noted the past five entering classes were the school’s most…
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THE REPOSITORY — Canton native Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University, has received the Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession from the Association of American Law Schools. The award was established in 2006 to recognize career contributions by an outstanding faculty member at a U.S. law school. Crenshaw…
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