Pacific McGeorge Law professor Courtney Lee receives animal law award from International Society for Animal Rights
UNIVERSITY OF PACIFIC — McGeorge School of Law Professor Courtney Lee found an outlet for her passion and love for animals at McGeorge, and now her dedication to their welfare has earned her recognition from the International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR), whose mission for the past 50 years has been to advance animal rights through education, legislation…
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PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — In fall 2019, Penn State Dickinson Law Assistant Professor of Law Matthew B. Lawrence introduced first-year Dickinson Law students to the legislative process through the Legal Argument and Factual Persuasion course. While continuing to teach administrative law at Dickinson Law this semester, Lawrence will also be working part time with the U.S. Congress as…
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL — Professor Maggie Blackhawk, one of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s most recent faculty additions, has been awarded the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation prize for “Petitioning and the Making of an Administrative State,” published in the Yale Law Journal in 2018. Each year, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation offers a $5,000 prize for the “best article…
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Professor Jean Galbraith was one of the 45 lawyers, judges, and law professors recently elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). Galbraith’s research focuses on international legal institution structures, especially treaty regimes, and the intersection between these institutions and U.S. domestic law. The ALI is an independent organization that produces scholarly work to clarify,…
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ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY — Judge DiFiore’s enthusiasm for Presumptive ADR—and for her larger plan to enhance the quality of justice in New York—was palpable as she addressed St. John’s 1Ls on the first day of their January intersession Lawyering course, which teaches negotiation and other key dispute resolution skills. Praising the week-long course, and complementary offerings…
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DARLINGTON NEWS & PRESS — It came as she was researching law schools and discovered professor Marcia Zug and her work with indigenous peoples — particularly her comparative law research into the treatment of indigenous tribes in the United States and Australia. While saddled with the unassuming title of “Special Topics in Legislative Drafting,” the groundbreaking class…
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL — Tishia Browning, director of employer development at Wayne State University Law School, was named a Detroit Bar Association (DBA) fellow. In order to qualify as a DBA Fellow, attorneys must have demonstrated a lifetime of achievement or exceptional service to other lawyers and to the community, including support for the DBA’s…
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — When the experience of sitting in the lecture hall is hardly more interactive than watching the lecture on a laptop screen, there are few downsides and plenty of upsides to recording. But for smaller, highly interactive classes — my forthcoming law-school class will have about 25 students and is designed to…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — Students, faculty and staff gathered Tuesday, Jan. 21 for American University Washington College of Law’s 21st annual MLK Celebration in honor of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event—presented by the Office of Diversity, Inclusions, and Affinity Relations—included a community reading, with 21 participating attendees…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — American University Washington College of Law students gave each other the gift of encouragement during “Duck Day” on Monday, Jan. 13. The event brought light to “Duck Syndrome,” a term coined by psychologists for students that may seem to be “floating along” fine, but under the surface are struggling to…
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