University of Virginia Law professor Barbra Spellman receives Women in Cognitive Science Leadership Award
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Barbara Spellman, a professor of law and psychology at the University of Virginia School of Law, has been named a recipient of the Women in Cognitive Science Leadership Award. The award, sponsored by the Psychonomic Society and Women in Cognitive Science, recognizes initiatives that individuals have undertaken, beyond their own students…
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Professor Susan Hazeldean, founder and director of the Brooklyn Law School LGBT Advocacy Clinic, will receive the inaugural LGBTQ+ Inclusive Excellence Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Section. The award will be presented at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in January. Hazeldean’s…
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UCI LAW — University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) Vice Dean and Professor Christopher Whytock has been appointed Director of Studies at The Hague Academy of International Law for its 2020 winter course. “I am extremely honored to have been appointed to this position, and very grateful to the Curatorium of the Academy for…
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UCI LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is honored to announce Dean L. Song Richardson and Assistant Professor of Law Swethaa Ballakrishnen will participate in panels at the “Leading Differently Across Difference: A National Conference on Training Lawyers as Leaders” in New York. The one-day conference will address the need for…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On Friday, October 18, 2019 SEC Commissioner Elad L. Roisman sat down with Professor Sean J. Griffith, TJ Maloney Chair in Business Law, for a conversation about mutual fund investors, proxy voting, and sticky default rules. The fireside chat capped the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law’s symposium entitled Global Investor…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — On October 17, 2019, nearly 200 members of the Fordham Law School community gathered to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the school’s Master of Laws (LL.M.) program. Founded in 1989, the program has been key in establishing and expanding Fordham Law’s international footprint. In his remarks, Dean Matthew Diller noted the substantial growth…
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — According to Georgia State Law professor John Marshall, it’s never not disaster season. He has been on the ground in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and he is currently interviewing residents of northwest Florida and southwest Georgia about the impact of Hurricane Michael. His research focuses on building resilience into ordinances and…
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW — In one of the first cases of its upcoming term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a transgender woman who was fired from her job and determine if Title VII protects against discrimination against transgender individuals. A University of Kansas law professor has co-written an amicus…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Multidistrict litigation (MDL) has grown from a secondary procedure that united nationwide economic claims to being a huge part of the federal court’s civil docket and a primary tool for mass torts litigation. Professor Robert Klonoff has written the first complete treatment of this area of law in his new…
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA — Along with the Women Lawyers Section of the State Bar Association of North Dakota, UND School of Law recently cosponsored a Symposium on Implicit Bias in the Legal Profession in which nearly 100 people participated. Teri McMurtry-Chubb, Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law with the UIC John Marshall Law School in Chicago,…
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