Columbia Law professor Maeve Glass receives teaching excellence award

April 17, 2021

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Students laud Glass for her captivating lectures and praise her as a teacher who inspires, encourages, and values their active participation in classes. Glass will receive the honor, which is awarded annually by the graduating class, and speak at graduation on April 29.

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Duke Law emeritus professor Christopher Schroeder appointed to US Department of Justice counsel post

April 17, 2021

DUKE LAW MAGAZINE — Christopher Schroeder, the Charles S. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Law and professor emeritus of public policy, was appointed as principal deputy assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice on Jan. 20, becoming acting assistant attorney general for the office.

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Duke Law professor Gina-Gail Fletcher testifies before the US Senate on rise of ‘meme stocks’

April 17, 2021

DUKE LAW — Professor Gina-Gail Fletcher testified about the rise of “meme stocks” and their impact on the capital markets during a March 9 hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Fletcher appeared during a hearing titled “Who Wins on Wall Street? GameStop, Robinhood, and the State of Retail Investing.”

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University of Florida Law professor Katheryn Russell-Brown honored by NAACP for children’s book

April 17, 2021

THE GAINESVILLE SUN — It was her second time being nominated and her first time taking home the award, an achievement she now shares with her late father, Charlie L. Russell, who won the NAACP Image Award for best screenplay in 1975 for a movie he wrote called “Five on the Black Hand Side.”

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Gonzaga Law professor George Crithlow authors The Lifer and the Lawyer book

April 17, 2021

ABA JOURNAL — “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”―Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. In 1979, George Critchlow was a young criminal defense attorney just a couple years out of law school.

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Indiana University Maurer Law professor John Applegate named interim provost of university

April 17, 2021

WBIW.COM — IU President Michael McRobbie has appointed Indiana University’s current Executive Vice President for University Academic Affairs, John Applegate, as interim executive vice president and IU Bloomington provost.

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University of Minnesota Law professor Michael Tonry awarded Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

April 17, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL — Professor Michael Tonry has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. The highly competitive, annual national fellowship was awarded to 174 American and Canadian scholars, writers, and artists selected from among more nearly 3,000 applicants.

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Northeastern Law professor Martha Davis co-edits handbook on human rights and poverty

April 17, 2021

NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — Professor Martha Davis, faculty director for Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and the NuLawLab, is a co-editor of the newly published Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).

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Northeastern Law professor Jared Nicholson joins editorial board of Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development

April 17, 2021

NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — In an event Monday held in response to a spate of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S., Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern, called upon university officials to create a “comprehensive action plan” by the end of May to address ways in which Northeastern can better support its students and community.

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Northeastern Law professor Stephanie Hartung appointed as faculty associate at Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research

April 17, 2021

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Stephanie Hartung has been appointed to the affiliate program at Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research. This interdisciplinary network of faculty and graduate students from Boston University and colleges and universities around New England bring their expertise.

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