CUNY Law professor Daniel Loehr publishes report on eugenic roots of modern sentencing laws

March 31, 2025

CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW — A new report from CUNY Law Professor Daniel Loehr, published by The Sentencing Project, examines the historical development of habitual offender laws and their foundations in early 20th-century eugenic ideology.

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University of Colorado Law highlights recent faculty accomplishments

March 31, 2025

COLORADO LAW — Vanessa Racehorse, Tribal Health Self-Determination, 56 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 183 (2025) 

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University of Denver Law professor Rebecca Aviel publishes paper on the First Amendment and technology regulation

March 31, 2025

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER — In 2016, Lorie Smith, a Colorado website designer, sued Aubrey Elenis, the director of the Colorado Civil Rights Division.

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Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein releases book on the social cost of carbon

March 31, 2025

HARVARD LAW TODAY — In his new book “Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World  — And the Future,” Professor Cass R. Sunstein ’78 argues that wealthy nations, which have benefited the most from industries that cause greenhouse gas emissions, have a responsibility to compensate poor nations as well as future generations.

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Podcast: Harvard Law professor emeritus Mark Tushnet discusses his book on judicial craft

March 31, 2025

LEGAL TALK NETWORK — What if we are asking the wrong questions when selecting American judges? Mark Tushnet thinks our current criteria might be off.

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Hofstra Law professor Eric Freedman speaks at Cardozo Law social justice symposium

March 31, 2025

HOFSTRA LAW NEWS — Siggi B. Wilzig Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Rights Eric M. Freedman was an invited panelist at the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice symposium earlier this month.

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Hofstra Law professor Elizabeth Nevins advocates against changes to New York discovery laws

March 27, 2025

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — Elizabeth Nevins, clinical professor and Attorney-in-Charge of the Defender Clinic at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University has helped lead the effort of more than 80 New York law professors in writing a letter to legislative leaders to reject a proposal in Governor’s Hochul budget that would effectively…

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Lewis & Clark Law professor Lisa Benjamin publishes article on colonialism and climate law and policy

March 27, 2025

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The article is part of a special Wisconsin International Law Journal issue on Racial Capitalism and Climate Change that Professor Benjamin was invited to contribute to.

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University of Maryland Law professor Leigh Goodmark discusses her experience with the school’s Gender Violence Clinic

March 27, 2025

THE NEW YORKER — For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s pushing for the opposite.

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UMass Law professor Lisa Owens presents at junior scholarship conference

March 27, 2025

UMASS LAW — Professor Lisa Owens presented her latest work “Revisiting Gender in Places of Public Accommodation” at the Northeastern Junior Scholarship Conference.

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