University of Minnesota Law professor Paul Vaaler discusses migrant remittances
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — Vaaler studied this transnational phenomenon up close in South Africa, where money, ideas, and people flow freely across porous borders, and shared his observations with local academic, finance, and civil society groups.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — In Doing Justice, Preventing Crime, Professor Michael Tonry lays normative and empirical foundations for building new, more just, and more effective systems of sentencing and punishment in the 21st century. Tonry has two other books in the last year.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW — Professor Francis X. Shen, who conducts empirical and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law and the brain sciences, was part of an interdisciplinary team that just released a study concluding that current safety measures protecting soccer players from concussions are inadequate.
Read More about University of Minnesota Law professor Francis X. Shen publishes study on safety measures protecting soccer players from concussionsPodcast: North Carolina Central Law associate dean April Dawson uses technology to connect with constitutional law students
ABA JOURNAL — April Dawson, an associate dean and professor at the North Carolina Central University School of Law, misses seeing her constitutional law students in person. But the constitutional law and voting rights scholar has been finding creative ways to use technology in the classroom, even before the pandemic.
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UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO — Students and faculty at USF’s School of Law will begin reviewing criminal cases as part of a new Innocence Commission created by the San Francisco district attorney. USF law students and a staff attorney will work with the DA’s office to review cases in which claims of wrongful conviction have been filed.
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UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO — Law Professor Matthew Liebman imagines seminars designed to explore the relationship between animal law and social justice, and eventually wants to provide students with real-life experience in animal law practice through an in-house clinic that addresses a multitude of animal law issues.
Read More about University of San Francisco Law professor Matthew Liebman discusses animal rights and the lawUSC Gould Law professor Ron Garet receives Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — Ron Garet – the Carolyn Craig Franklin Chair in Law and Religion, Emeritus, at USC Gould – received the 2020 Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award at the university’s 39th annual Academic Honors Convocation. The award is presented to a very select number of retired faculty.
Read More about USC Gould Law professor Ron Garet receives Faculty Lifetime Achievement AwardWillamette Law professor Robin Morris Collin to speak at University of Oregon Law on environmental exploitation
AROUND THE O — A former UO law professor, Robin Morris Collin, will discuss solutions to remedy environmental injustice in this year’s Colin Ruagh O’Fallon Memorial Lecture. The talk will center on how centuries of environmental exploitation and social injustice in the U.S. be unraveled.
Read More about Willamette Law professor Robin Morris Collin to speak at University of Oregon Law on environmental exploitationWillamette Law professor Warren Binford honored at Oregon American Constitution Society awards dinner
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — Warren Binford, professor of law and director of the Clinical Law Program, was honored with the Justice Hans A. Linde Award by the Oregon chapter of the American Constitution Society (ACS). This year’s recipient, Warren Binford, is an internationally recognized children’s rights scholar and advocate.
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — Professor Rebecca Green’s research explores topics such as election administration transparency, redistricting transparency and candidate privacy. Numerous news stories and programs have featured her expert commentary on the 2020 election.
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