USC Gould Law vice dean Franita Tolson discusses the state of the US Postal Service amid the election
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — Gould Vice Dean and Professor Franita Tolson among USC experts addressing President’s unfounded claims that voting by mail leads to fraud, while noting genuine issues that the Postal Service must address regarding mail-in ballots.
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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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YALE JOURNAL ON REGULATION — Although scholars may not be able to see each other at conferences or other events for the foreseeable future, they can still maintain some virtual connection. The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Administrative Law continues its initiative: “Meet a Member.”
Read More about Interview with AALS Section on Administrative Law member and George Washington Law professor Bridget DoolingDrake Law to host fall webinar series on policies and practices that enforce systemic racism
BUSINESS RECORD — Drake University Law School will host a fall webinar series to address a broad array of policies and practices that perpetuate racial inequities in American society. The series of livestreamed talks, which begins Sept. 4, features Drake Law faculty and guests sharing their expertise about underlying structures that reinforce racism and oppression…
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NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — NIU College of Law hosted its new lecture series—Race and the Law Conversations— on Wednesday, August 26.
Read More about Northern Illinois Law hosts virtual lecture series on police accountability and reformSMU Dedman Law professor Hilary Green discusses book on the legacy of James Collins Johnson in book review
SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Hilary Green, an historian at the University of Alabama, reviewed Lolita Buckner Inniss’ book The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson in Volume 86, Number 3 (August 2020) of The Journal of Southern History.
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THE LEGAL ACADEMY — This week’s guest is Brian Leiter, the Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and the force behind the Leiter Rankings and Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports.
Read More about Video: UC Berkeley Law professor Orin Kerr interviews University of Chicago Law professor Brian Leiter about law faculty hiring during the pandemicOpinion: Diploma privilege for new law graduates avoids bar exam administration chaos
JURIST — Nicholas W. Allard, former Joseph Crea Dean at Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York discusses the necessity for creative solutions for recent law school graduates to become members of the bar.
Read More about Opinion: Diploma privilege for new law graduates avoids bar exam administration chaosAlbany Law honors professors Christine Sgarlata Chung, Antony Haynes, and James Redwood
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law School recently recognized three outstanding members of the faculty for excellence in the categories of scholarship, service, and teaching.
Read More about Albany Law honors professors Christine Sgarlata Chung, Antony Haynes, and James RedwoodArizona State University launches Jonathan and Wendy Rose Professorship
ASU NOW — In what would become a remarkable career as a Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law professor, Jonathan Rose began teaching in September 1968, the second year of the new College of Law. Although he looked forwarded to teaching, his assignment to teach contracts troubled him.
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