University of Connecticut Law Tax Clinic helps contract workers navigate tax issues
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF LAW — The Tax Clinic at the UConn School of Law is seeing an increasing number of clients who earned income as contractors and ended up facing tax penalties because they didn’t understand and follow the rules, according to Professor Lisa Perkins, the clinic’s director. These taxpayers don’t always know that…
Read More about University of Connecticut Law Tax Clinic helps contract workers navigate tax issuesCornell Law professor Michael Dorf joins research team to study health warnings on e-cigarettes
CORNELL CHRONICLE — As controversy swirls around the vaping industry, a team of Cornell researchers has set out to help regulators identify the most effective health warnings to include in advertisements for electronic cigarettes. Niederdeppe and Sahara Byrne, professor of communication in CALS, are the study’s principal investigators. Co-investigators are Michael Dorf, the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law…
Read More about Cornell Law professor Michael Dorf joins research team to study health warnings on e-cigarettesFordham Law hosts panel discussion on impeachment
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Professors Corey Brettschneider, Andrew Kent, Catherine Powell, Jed Shugerman, and Zephyr Teachout took questions on the processes and pitfalls of the impeachment trial. The discussion ranged from the calling of witnesses to President Trump’s motivation for his phone call with Ukranian President Zelensky to debating whether or not a sitting president can…
Read More about Fordham Law hosts panel discussion on impeachmentFordham Law spring orientation provides professional and leadership training for first-year law students
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — As part of Fordham Law’s commitment to making professionalism a core part of legal education, the Law School recently held its first ever spring orientation for first-year law students returning from their winter break. In preparation, every student completed a set of online modules developed by Open Mind, an organization dedicated to fostering…
Read More about Fordham Law spring orientation provides professional and leadership training for first-year law studentsA look at University of Georgia Law’s mentorship program
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW — The School of Law’s innovative mentorship program has connected more than 700 law students with four-person support teams since its start in 2016. The mentor teams consist of upper-level law students, faculty members, career development officers and alumni/alumnae/professional mentors. The program is quite flexible as mentors and mentees are encouraged…
Read More about A look at University of Georgia Law’s mentorship programUniversity of Georgia Law professor Sonja R. West elected chair of the AALS Section on Communication, Media, and Information Law
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Brumby Distinguished Professor in First Amendment Law Sonja R. West has been elected as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Communication, Media and Information Law Section for 2020.
Read More about University of Georgia Law professor Sonja R. West elected chair of the AALS Section on Communication, Media, and Information LawUniversity of Georgia Law professor Walter Hellerstein serves as panelist at Vienna University Case Law Conference
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Distinguished Research Professor & Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law Emeritus Walter Hellerstein served as a panelist for the “Fundamental Principles and VAT” session at the Court of Justice of the European Union: Recent VAT Case Law Conference at the Vienna University of Economics and Business during January.
Read More about University of Georgia Law professor Walter Hellerstein serves as panelist at Vienna University Case Law ConferenceUniversity of Georgia Law professor Kent Barnett elected chair of the AALS Section on Administrative Law
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Hosch Associate Professor Kent Barnett has been elected chair of the Association of American Law Schools Administrative Law Section. His term will last until January 2021.
Read More about University of Georgia Law professor Kent Barnett elected chair of the AALS Section on Administrative LawUniversity of Houston Law professor Sandra Guerra Thompson to discuss pre-trial bail reform at Harris County town hall meeting
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson will join elected criminal justice officials in discussing the new pre-trial bail reform policy and the general state of justice in Harris County during a town hall meeting Feb. 6. Thompson will explain the agreement followed by a panel discussion on…
Read More about University of Houston Law professor Sandra Guerra Thompson to discuss pre-trial bail reform at Harris County town hall meetingUniversity of Houston Law dean Leonard M. Baynes honored by Lawyers of Color Foundation
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center Dean Leonard M. Baynes has been selected to the fifth“Power List” of the Lawyers of Color Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting diversity in the legal profession. The Power List recognizes the most influential minority attorneys in the nation, including general counsels, managing partners, legal…
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