Duke Law professor Gina-Gail Fletcher testifies before the US Senate on rise of ‘meme stocks’
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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — The University announced that Ted Ruger, Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, has agreed to extend his tenure as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School until June 30, 2023. The news comes just as the Law School climbed a full position up to #6.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — In “Private Company Lies,” published in the Georgetown Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor of Law Elizabeth Pollman argues that the time has come to examine and address securities fraud in private companies.
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