University of Virginia Law conference to address law and hate speech

September 9, 2020

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — With anti-Semitism surging globally, scholars are convening to discuss the role of law in combating religious and racial hatred, at a conference Sept. 10 co-hosted by the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the University of Virginia School of Law.

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Yale Law professor Cristina Rodríguez authors book on immigration policy and the executive branch

September 9, 2020

YALE LAW SCHOOL — In her new book, The President and Immigration Law (Oxford University Press, September 2020), Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law Cristina Rodríguez ’00 examines how immigration policy became concentrated in the hands of the president and whether this state of affairs should give us pause.

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Brooklyn Law faculty vote to adopt anti-bias resolution

September 3, 2020

BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — The history of the United States is steeped in racial animus, prejudice, the subjugation of people of color, and the enslavement of Black people. That legacy manifests today in the form of mass incarceration, race-based disparities in health, income, political power, wealth, education, housing, and environmental quality, as well as other

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Elon Law assistant professor Tiffany Atkins contributes to webinar series on incorporating anti-racism concepts in law school courses

September 3, 2020

ELON UNIVERSITY — Assistant Professor Tiffany Atkins L’11 was among the educators in a webinar hosted by the Society of American Law Teachers in which presenters put forward advice for integrating antiracism education into law school courses.

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Fordham Law professor Catherine Powell publishes article in The Georgetown Law Journal on the intersection of race and the 19th Amendment

September 3, 2020

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Professor Catherine Powell co-authored The “Welfare Queen” Goes to the Polls: Race-Based Fractures in Gender Politics and Opportunities for Intersectional Coalitions, an article that was published in a special edition of The Georgetown Law Journal, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.

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Fordham Law professors Bennett Capers, Benjamin Zipursky and Harvard Law professor John C.P. Goldberg publish article on local police reform

September 3, 2020

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Professors Bennett Capers and Benjamin Zipursky, along with Harvard Law Professor John C.P. Goldberg, wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post on how states can implement police reform without changes to federal laws.

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Ohio State University Law professor Dakota S. Rudesill analyzes the history of qualified immunity

September 3, 2020

ABA JOURNAL — Teach what you know. That piece of wisdom came to mind when schools closed due to the coronavirus global pandemic in mid-March, and I suddenly had a new job: second grade home-schooler.

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Penn State Dickinson Law faculty and staff raise funds for educational equity scholarship

September 3, 2020

PENN STATE NEWS — When Penn State Dickinson Law Associate Dean for Academic and Student Services Jeffrey A. Dodge heard about the generous gift made to the Dickinson Law Future Fund and Penn State Student Care and Advocacy Emergency Fund by Dickinson Law Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Danielle Conway, he was

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College professors plan strike and public teach-in for racial justice

September 3, 2020

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Three headline-making images from the past week sparked an upcoming strike for racial justice — what could be the biggest collective action by academics in recent memory.

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College faculty discuss changes to online teaching this fall

September 3, 2020

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Faculty members say they’re working harder than ever to meet students’ needs through remote instruction, even if critics of the model don’t know it.

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