Washburn Law professors David Rubenstein and Marsha Griggs discuss best practices for online bar exam administration
BLOOMBERG LAW — Online bar exams administered during the pandemic were marked by controversy around the use of proctoring using artificial intelligence and allegations of cheating. Washburn University School of Law professors David Rubenstein and Marsha Griggs say regulation and best practices are needed, since online exams are here to stay.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — In “Better Than Our Biases: Using Psychological Research to Inform Our Approach to Inclusive, Effective Feedback,” I describe how clinical law faculty can examine their biases, consider how those biases shape the experiences of underrepresented students in law schools, and take active steps to mitigate those biases in classrooms.
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NBC 12 — The way policing is enforced could forever be changed, following a new casebook written by a Law professor at the University of Virginia. UVA Law Professor and Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Rachel Harmon says often times, society is reactive to crimes committed by police officers.
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ABA JOURNAL — A law dean has revealed that her retirement announcement was precipitated by her reference to herself as a “slaveholder.” Dean Mary Lu Bilek of the City University of New York School of Law told the community that she made the remark to place blame on herself for racial inequities at the school.
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THE CRIMSON WHITE — To help people learn more about pressing legal issues, MSNBC correspondents and friends created a podcast called “#SistersInLaw.” The four women have been able to have in-depth discussions about legal issues and procedures in the hopes of helping their listeners become more informed about how the legal system works.
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UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW — The U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico relied on a 2018 article by Professor Brian Soucek and Remington Lamons ’18 in deciding how high the burden is on defendants wanting to plead affirmative defenses in federal court.
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UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW — In Moore v. Commissioner of Correction, a unanimous Connecticut Supreme Court cited Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin‘s article. The article, co-authored with a former University Cincinnati College of Law student, has been relied upon by many other courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
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UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Peter Lee recently presented a piece titled “Autonomy, Copyright, and the Structure of Creative Production” at the Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium. The piece examines the role of copyright in promoting vertical disintegration and creative autonomy in the film, music, and publishing industries.
Read More about UC Davis Law professor Peter Lee presents paper at works-in-progress intellectual property colloquiumUC Irvine Law professor Gregory Shaffer named president-elect of the American Society of International Law
UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, has been named President-Elect of the American Society of International Law. A nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization, ASIL was founded in 1906 and chartered by Congress in 1950.
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DUKE LAW — Kelli Raker, coordinator of the Entrepreneurial Law Program and managing director of the Duke Law Tech Lab, was named to the seventh annual “Women of Legal Tech” list by the Legal Technology Resource Center, part of the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Division.
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