Columbia Law celebrates faculty authors
COLUMBIA LAW SSCHOOL — In chapters, journal articles, and books, Columbia Law faculty have put forth their research on myriad legal topics, including corporate and tax law, environmental law, human rights issues, and beyond.
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DREXEL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law expanding privacy protections for reproductive health care workers and patients for which Drexel Law Professor David S. Cohen had testified. The law expands an existing state program that allowed sexual assault and stalking victims to keep their addresses secret.
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HARVARD LAW TODAY — Four Harvard Law School clinicians—Esme Caramello, Patricia Whiting and Nicole Summers from the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) and Shelley Barron from the Tenant Advocacy Project (TAP)—presented testimony before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary on a series of housing bills aimed at tenants facing eviction.
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GLOBENEWSWIRE — The National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women awarded John Marshall Law Professor Renee Hatcher the Shining Star Award at its annual conference on June 29. Hatcher serves as Assistant Professor and Director of the Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic.
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — This June, the Oregon legislature passed a bill to substantially narrow Oregon’s death penalty, SB 1013. Governor Brown ’85 signed the bill into law on August 1, 2019, in a ceremony attended by two Lewis & Clark Law faculty: Steve Kanter, Emeritus Dean and Professor of Law, and Aliza Kaplan, Director…
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL — Cambridge University Press recently published two articles by Penn Law Professor Beth Simmons, the Andrea Mitchell University Professor in Law, Political Science and Business Ethics, in the summer issue of International Organization, the number one most cited journal in Political Science and International Relations.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — As director of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Clinic, University of Virginia Law Proefssor Cale Jaffe ’01 has been leading his students to address cutting-edge issues in the field and at the U.S. Supreme Court. Jaffe was director of the Virginia office of the Southern Environmental Law Center.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — On Thursday, July 18, 2019, AUWCL Professor Diane Orentlicher participated in a briefing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe – also known as the Helsinki Commission – on “Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing: Toward a Unified Future,” held at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC.
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Brooklyn Law Professor David Reiss, an expert in Real Estate Finance and Consumer Finance Law and founding director of the Community Development Clinic, has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute. Reiss is a frequently quoted expert on legal developments in the real estate finance sector.
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COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Columbia Law Professor Katharina Pistor, the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law and director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation explores the fundamental role of lawyers in creating the rights and structures that help the rich get richer in her new book, The Code of Capital.
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