UMass Law professor Richard Peltz-Steele challenges collective bargaining law for university staff
ABA JOURNAL — A University of Massachusetts School of Law professor is suing his union, his university and the state over a law that gives the union exclusive rights to represent him in salary negotiations and grievance procedures. Richard Peltz-Steele is not a member of the UMass Faculty Federation, but a state law gives the organization…
Read More about UMass Law professor Richard Peltz-Steele challenges collective bargaining law for university staffUIC Law professor Teri McMurtry-Chubb makes book on DEI pedagogy available free for law faculty
UIC LAW — Prominent critical-race-and-gender scholar Professor Teri McMurtry-Chubb has published a new, comprehensive pedagogical how-to on diversity, equity and inclusion teaching methods. Strategies & Techniques for Integrating DEI into the Core Law Curriculum: A Comprehensive Guide to DEI Pedagogy, Course Planning, and Classroom Practice, published by Wolters Kluwer Legal Education, is now available to legal…
Read More about UIC Law professor Teri McMurtry-Chubb makes book on DEI pedagogy available free for law facultyUCLA Law professor Sharon Dolovich co-authors paper on COVID-19 and prisoners in the Journal of the American Medical Association
UCLA LAW — UCLA School of Law Professor Sharon Dolovich co-wrote an article on rates of COVID-19 infection and death in U.S. prisons that has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the country’s leading medical journal. The research letter, “COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in Federal and State Prisons Compared With the US Population,…
Read More about UCLA Law professor Sharon Dolovich co-authors paper on COVID-19 and prisoners in the Journal of the American Medical AssociationUniversity of North Carolina Law professor Carissa Hessick authors book on plea bargaining and criminal justice reform
UNC SCHOOL OF LAW — UNC School of Law’s Ransdell Distinguished Professor of Law, Carissa Byrne Hessick, makes the case against plea bargaining in her new book, “Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal.” Her research shows that criminal justice reform is impossible without first changing plea bargaining. The book will be released…
Read More about University of North Carolina Law professor Carissa Hessick authors book on plea bargaining and criminal justice reformNorthwestern Law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer publishes book on #MeToo and how victims of sexual assault can receive justice
NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — In her new book, Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers(Harper Wave), Deborah Tuerkheimer, Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law, looks at the spotlight created by #MeToo and considers the next steps: Why do we believe who we believe, and how can we create a path forward for…
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RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL — Clinic Dean and Professor Jon Dubin is one of the nation’s leading scholars and authorities on social security disability law with multiple articles on the subject cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. He has supervised hands-on clinical practice with hundreds of clinical law students on behalf of hundreds of low-income social security and…
Read More about Rutgers Law professor Jon Dubin authors book on social security disability lawStetson Law professor Rebecca Morgan honored by Florida Bar Elder Law Section
STETSON UNIVERSITY — Professor Rebecca C. Morgan, who created the Center for Excellence in Elder Law at Stetson, received a lifetime achievement award from the Florida Bar Elder Law Section this summer. “There’s no more deserving person in the elder law world that I’m aware of,” said Steve Hitchcock, the immediate past chair of the Elder Law…
Read More about Stetson Law professor Rebecca Morgan honored by Florida Bar Elder Law SectionUniversity of Virginia Law professor Jason Johnston publishes book examining cost-benefit of climate action
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Jason Johnston of the University of Virginia School of Law has written a new book that — although not skeptical of the fact that human activity contributes to climate change — questions some of the assumptions being used to justify some policies that address climate impacts. Cambridge University Press…
Read More about University of Virginia Law professor Jason Johnston publishes book examining cost-benefit of climate actionColleges adjust faculty hiring strategies amid pandemic
DIVERSE EDUCATION — Although budget cuts in the wake of COVID-19 have led to hiring freezes at some institutions, faculty diversity initiatives continue. In the pandemic world of academia, many institutions are struggling to keep enrollment up and costs down, but there is still a distinct awareness that moves must be made to bring faculty diversity closer…
Read More about Colleges adjust faculty hiring strategies amid pandemicNorthwestern Law Bluhm Legal Clinic hosts symposium on race and lawyering
NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — The Children and Family Justice Center co-sponsored the Bluhm Legal Clinic’s inaugural Race and Lawyering in the 21st Century symposium, which was held on September 30. The event was held online and at Lincoln Hall. The four-hour event, whose theme was “Gun Possession in Chicago: What the Headlines Don’t Tell You,”…
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