Fordham Law assistant dean Nitza Milagros Escalera honored by Council on Legal Education Opportunity
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — The Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc. has announced that Nitza Milagros Escalera, assistant dean of student affairs at Fordham Law, has been selected as one of ten recipients of its CLEO EDGE awards. The awards will be presented at a Nov. 7 ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Read More about Fordham Law assistant dean Nitza Milagros Escalera honored by Council on Legal Education OpportunityGeorgia State University Law receives grants to create undergraduate bioethics course
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — The Greenwall Foundation awarded Georgia State University College of Law a grant to develop a model undergraduate bioethics course that seeks to engage diverse students’ interest in bioethics issues as well as support students who wish to pursue post-graduate education.
Read More about Georgia State University Law receives grants to create undergraduate bioethics courseHarvard Law features panel discussion with professor and former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power
HARVARD LAW TODAY — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power ’99 expressed both skepticism and hope for the current state of international affairs during a panel discussion at Harvard Law School Monday. Power, whose new memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” documents her journey from “immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet…
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THE HOFSTRA CHRONICLE — Hofstra’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law celebrated the day when state delegates signed the Constitution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The School of Law hosted a conversation with Michael Dreeben, the former U.S. deputy solicitor general in charge of the Department of Justice’s criminal docket. Dreeben represented the U.S. in over 100 cases before…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW — An article by a University of Houston Law Center 3L student and a recent graduate has been accepted for publication in the Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Law News and Reporter. The article, “All this talk, but plastics keep piling up,” by 3L student Rachael Beavers Horne and 2019 graduate Chantal Carriere…
Read More about University of Houston Law student Rachael Beavers Horne co-authors article for environmental law journalUniversity of Kansas Law Medical-Legal Partnership aids low-income community members in need
KU LAW BLOG — Since its launch in 2008, the KU Law Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) has provided free legal assistance to thousands of low-income patients at area hospitals while offering hands-on training to law students. Staffed by licensed attorneys and KU law students, the MLP provides assistance to patients referred by medical partners in Kansas City…
Read More about University of Kansas Law Medical-Legal Partnership aids low-income community members in needUniversity of Kentucky Law professor Joshua Douglas honored by school for excellence in teaching
UK NOW — Joshua A. Douglas, Thomas P. Lewis Professor of Law, is the recipient of the 2019 Duncan Teaching Award at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Douglas specializes in election law, voting rights, constitutional law, civil procedure and judicial decision-making. He teaches Election Law, Constitutional Law II, Civil Procedure I and Supreme Court Decision…
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LEWIS & CLARK — Professor Samir Parikh has been invited back to Oxford University on November 6, 2019, to present his new paper, The Golden Age of Bankruptcy Tourism, to business law faculty and PhD students as part of the Oxford Business Law Workshop Series. Parikh is one of only eleven scholars outside of Oxford invited to participate…
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WBIR-TV — Judge Gary Wade, Vice President and Dean of the Lincoln Memorial University-Duncan School of Law announced his plans to retire at the end of the school year.“Judge Gary Wade has notified me that he will be retiring at the end of the school year. I appreciate his dedicated service to the LMU-Duncan School…
Read More about Lincoln Memorial University Law dean Gary Wade to retire at end of academic yearUniversity of Missouri Law honors legacy of former dean Tim Heinsz with ‘bow tie day’
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI LAW — Mizzou Law celebrated the annual Tim Heinsz Bow Tie Day on Wednesday, September 25. Heinsz, a former MU Law Dean and Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law, died suddenly while jogging on the MKT Trail in July of 2004. Each year since his passing, colleagues, friends and students have celebrated Heinsz’s…
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