University of Akron Law students at Immigration and Human Rights Clinic win cases for asylum-seekers
UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — Since fall 2016, University of Akron School of Law students at the school’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic have provided one-on-one representation in removal defense cases for 32 asylum-seeking noncitizens detained at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NEOCC) in Youngstown and at other facilities throughout the country where appeals clients are held…
Read More about University of Akron Law students at Immigration and Human Rights Clinic win cases for asylum-seekersAmerican University Washington College of Law hosts intellectual property lecture
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW — On October 10, Professor Ruth L. Okediji Delivered the 8th Annual Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property. Her lecture addressed The Unfinished Business of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions. The lecture warned that it is important to not make limitations and exceptions like copyright – following a one size fits all pattern.…
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW — American University Washington College of Law Professor Michael Carroll participated in a panel discussion on copyright exceptions and limitations to benefit education and research at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s International Conference on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries, Archives, Museums and Educational & Research Institutions on October 18-19, 2019.
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — Associate Dean Margaret Johnson, director of the Bronfein Family Law Clinic and co-director of the Center on Applied Feminism, recently made a presentation based on her paper, Menstrual Justice, to the Technical Advisory Group for the Menstrual Health and Hygiene Policy Review Project, a collaboration between Columbia University and Water Supply…
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — Prof. Elizabeth Keyes, director of the UB School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic, received the award for Outstanding Achievement at the 26th Anniversary Gala of the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association (MHBA) on Sept. 26. In the program for the event, it was noted that Keyes’ “teaching, scholarship and practice all…
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UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW — Prof. Barbara A. Babb, director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts (CFCC) at the UB School of Law, is in Singapore Oct. 1-2 for two invited speaking engagements — the first to the country’s judicial leadership and the second to a diverse…
Read More about University of Baltimore Law professor Barbara Babb discusses family courts in SingaporeBoston College Law dean Vincent D. Rougeau nominated as AALS President-elect
BC LAW MAGAZINE — The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Nominating Committee has nominated Vincent D. Rougeau, dean of Boston College Law School, to become AALS President-elect. Rougeau is a nationally recognized leader in legal education who completed a three-year term on the AALS Executive Committee in 2018. Rougeau will join two other prior…
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BC LAW MAGAZINE — BC Law’s Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor Patricia McCoy, a rare US legal academic specializing in both insurance law and federal banking regulation, has been selected by the Federal Reserve Board as an inaugural member of its Insurance Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC). McCoy and the other 20 members of the IPAC will advise the Federal Reserve Board on…
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THE DAILY UNIVERSE — This database is called the Corpus of Founding Era American English, also known as COFEA. “Corpus” refers to a collection of written texts on a particular subject. The corpus holds founding-era documents that can be used by legal professionals for free as a tool to make educated legal decisions. Based on decisions…
Read More about BYU Law creates language database to help interpret U.S. ConstitutionCase Western Reserve Law co-dean Michael Scharf receives national book award
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — Dean Michael Scharf and his co-author Professor Milena Sterio of CSU were the recipients of the Association Internationale de Droit Penal’s 2019 Book of the Year Award for “The Legacy of Ad Hoc Tribunals in International Criminal Law” (2019, Cambridge).
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