UCLA Law professor Laura E. Gómez honored as outstanding scholar by the American Bar Foundation
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law Professor Laura E. Gómez has been honored with the 2021 Outstanding Scholar Award from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. She will receive the award – among the nation’s highest honors for scholarship in law or government – at the ABF’s annual banquet, which will be virtual.
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UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw is the recipient of the 2021 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Women in Legal Education. Crenshaw has been a preeminent leader in legal scholarship and critical race theory.
Read More about UCLA Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw honored with the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement AwardDuke Law professors Lawrence Baxter, Gina-Gail Fletcher, and Sarah Bloom Raskin join COVID-19 economic recovery committee
DUKE LAW — Duke Law professors Lawrence Baxter, Gina-Gail Fletcher, and Sarah Bloom Raskin are serving on a panel of top economic thinkers who are drafting policy recommendations that will facilitate a resilient and sustainable post-COVID economic recovery. The Regenerative Crisis Response Committee is a non-partisan group.
Read More about Duke Law professors Lawrence Baxter, Gina-Gail Fletcher, and Sarah Bloom Raskin join COVID-19 economic recovery committeeDuke Law faculty members selected as American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
DUKE TODAY — Six members of the Duke faculty have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. They are among 489 new fellows elected this year. The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874.
Read More about Duke Law faculty members selected as American Association for the Advancement of Science FellowsGeorgia State University Law professor Michael Landau publishes article on enforcement of property, antitrust and contract laws
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — As tech giants like Facebook and Google continue to grow, Landau discovered just how big the scope of their power is in his recently published article, “The Astounding Growth of ‘Big Tech’ and the Lack of Enforcement of the Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and Contract Laws.”
Read More about Georgia State University Law professor Michael Landau publishes article on enforcement of property, antitrust and contract lawsUniversity of Miami Law professor Kathleen Claussen to serve as co-editor of the Journal of International Economic Law
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Miami Law Professor Kathleen Claussen accepted the invitation from Oxford University Press to join a team of two colleagues to serve as as co-editor in chief of the Journal of International Economic Law, the leading intellectual publication in the field of international economic law.
Read More about University of Miami Law professor Kathleen Claussen to serve as co-editor of the Journal of International Economic LawUniversity of Minnesota Law professor Perry Moriearty helps client receive commutation of life sentence
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — Law clinic client freed after 18 years in prison. Professor Moriearty and two students attorneys helped Myon Burrell win a commutation of a life sentence that he received for a crime committed when he was 16 years old.
Read More about University of Minnesota Law professor Perry Moriearty helps client receive commutation of life sentenceNew York University Law professor Sean Morales-Doyle discusses Washington state measure to allow felons to vote while on parole
21 NBC WFMJ — Sean Morales-Doyle, deputy director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law, said momentum for a measure to let people vote while they’re on parole is building for the legislative session that begins in January.
Read More about New York University Law professor Sean Morales-Doyle discusses Washington state measure to allow felons to vote while on parolePenn State Law student Ngu Huu Truong co-publishes book on negotiating business deals and transactions during the pandemic
PENN STATE LAW — Current student Ngu Huu Truong and recent graduate Richardson Jean had exactly that opportunity when they helped Professor Samuel C. Thompson Jr., Arthur Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Penn State Law in University Park, publish his recent book, The Deal Lawyer’s Weapons in the War on COVID-19.
Read More about Penn State Law student Ngu Huu Truong co-publishes book on negotiating business deals and transactions during the pandemicPenn State Dickinson Law professor Medha Makhlouf receives Inaugural Faculty of the Year Award
PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — For her unique contributions to the core values of community, teaching, research, and scholarship at the Law School, Makhlouf has been named the first recipient of the Dickinson Law Faculty of the Year Award. Medha Makhlouf approaches teaching with the goal of helping her students to develop “roots and wings.”
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