Northwestern Law professor Dan Linna launches cross-disciplinary class on emerging legal technology

December 18, 2019

BLOOMBERG LAW — The legal market is a topic Hammond is interested in since he and Northwestern law professor Dan Linna this year launched a cross-disciplinary class—made up of law students and computer science whizzes—that tackles problems brought in from real law firms like Mayer Brown.

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University of Oklahoma Law professor Sarah Burstein speaks at University of Houston Law on intellectual property and patents

December 18, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — A leading intellectual property law scholar recently described how the method in which legal protections for manufactured products are granted requires more clarity during the University of Houston Law Center’s Institute of Intellectual Property & Information yearly fall lecture. University of Oklahoma College of Law Professor Sarah Burstein’s delivered her talk,…

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University of Pennsylvania Carey Law professor Dorothy E. Roberts authors forward to Harvard Law Review Supreme Court review issue

December 18, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights Dorothy E. Roberts has written the Foreword to Harvard Law Review’s Supreme Court Issue on the 2018 term.  An internationally recognized expert in race, gender, and the law, Roberts…

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University of Pennsylvania Carey Law Future of the Profession Initiative outlines goals in inaugural meeting

December 18, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Future of the Profession Initiative Board held its inaugural meeting in New York City to chart out the program’s projects, goals, and strategies. The Initiative aims to help both law students and alumni maneuver through an ever-changing legal profession.

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University of Pennsylvania Carey Law professor Anita L. Allen honored by University of Tilburg

December 18, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy Anita L. Allen recently traveled to the Netherlands to receive an honorary doctorate degree, Doctor Honoris Causa, from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Allen spoke of her four recent concerns in her work: “First, why it matters that…

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University of Pennsylvania Carey Law professor Michael Gerhardt testifies before House Judiciary Committee on impeachment

December 18, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — Michael Gerhardt, the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina School of Law and Lecturer in the Master in Law (ML) program at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, will testify to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee, Wednesday, December 4. Professor…

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Santa Clara Law professors present at NALP/ALI CLE Professional Development Institute

December 18, 2019

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Several of our faculty were speakers at the NALP/ALI CLE Professional Development Institute in Washington, DC on December 5, 2019. The spoke to a packed house of law firms and law schools on how law schools preparing law students to be practice-ready and enhance their professional development.   Sandee Magliozzi,…

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IRS Chief Counsel Michael Desmond visits South Texas College of Law Houston Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic

December 18, 2019

SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON — Michael Desmond — chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and assistant general counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury — visited South Texas College of Law Houston (STCL Houston) recently to tour the school’s successful Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC). Since the launch of the LITC in 2016…

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A look at the Legal Innovation and Technology Lab at Suffolk Law

December 18, 2019

STUDY INTERNATIONAL NEWS — A leading force in this area of legal innovation can be found at 120 Tremont Street, Boston. Suffolk Law School is where the nation’s brightest law students and faculty are working toward solutions to make access to justice a reality for tens of millions of Americans. Its Legal Innovation and Technology (LIT) Lab…

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Stanford Law dean Jenny Martinez discusses rights of detainees after 9/11 attacks

December 18, 2019

STANFORD LAWYER — Donna Newman had been appointed by a federal court in New York to represent an accused terrorist in a high-stakes lawsuit on the rights of detainees after the attacks of September 11, 2001.  A local lawyer who had long worked in the trenches representing criminal defendants, Newman, by her own admission, needed help.…

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