UCLA Law professor Kimberly Clausing appointed to US Treasury Department post
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law Professor Kimberly Clausing has joined the Biden administration as a deputy assistant secretary at the treasury department. Clausing will focus on tax analysis and policy, lead the Office of Tax Analysis and work to further tax policy development.
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DAILY PILOT — An associate professor at UC Irvine’s School of Law since 2012, Reiter is now spearheading an important effort to expand educational opportunities for the state’s prison population. Reiter saw a chance to go a step further and create the means for inmates to earn bachelor’s degrees through in-prison classes.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Cassandra Burke Robertson, the John Deaver Drinko—BakerHostetler Professor of Law and director of the Center for Professional Ethics has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Ohio to its Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure.
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UC NEWS — Verna Williams, UC College of Law Dean and Nippert Professor of Law, has been appointed by Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley to a new nine-member task force to evaluate the city’s development practices. Cincinnati City Council voted unanimously last year to create the task force, which will independently review development practices.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law School Professor Rebecca Kysar was sworn in as counselor to the assistant secretary of tax policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury yesterday. Kysar will handle engagement with multilateral international tax affairs, as well as development and implementation of domestic tax policies in this position.
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY ROBERT H. MCKINNEY SCHOOL OF LAW — IU McKinney Dean Karen E. Bravo is the featured speaker for the 22nd annual Black History Month event sponsored by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana at 2 p.m. on February 24. The virtual, hour-long program is called, “Looking Back, Leaning Forward.”
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INDY STAR — Officials are close to finalizing a redesigned board that will oversee the policies that govern officers’ use of force. The second candidate, criminal law and procedure professor Lahny Silva from the Robert H. McKinney School of Law IUPUI, received unanimous support with little discussion from the committee or the full council.
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UMASS LAW NEWS — With the most recent grant of tenure, women now make up 54% of the tenured faculty at UMass Law. Overall, 55% of UMass Law students are female, including 59% in this year’s entering class. Nationally, UMass Law is one of only 22 ABA-accredited law schools with a majority female tenured faculty.
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MISSOURI LAWYERS MEDIA — Missouri Lawyers Media will honor 21 attorneys, firms and legal professionals from around the state with its 2021 Diversity & Inclusion Awards for their work to support and advance those initiatives. The 2021 class of honorees includes S. David Mitchell, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law.
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UPI — The American Civil Liberties Union’s national board announced Monday that New York University School of Law professor Deborah Archer would be the group’s new president, the first Black person to lead the organization’s board of directors.
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