Texas A&M Law professor Huyen Pham elected to the American Law Institute
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas A&M University School of Law Professor Huyen Pham is elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). The ALI is the “leading independent organization” in the U.S. producing scholarly work to improve the law.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Frederick Schauer of the University of Virginia School of Law received an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration on Oct. 17. The honorary doctorate is the highest academic award bestowed by Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, or “WU,” as the Austrian university is also known, reflecting…
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — This year’s conference, held on October 3-4, opened with a day of preconference activities for students. A number of property rights experts were on hand to share their knowledge, including Andrew Prince Brigham and Brett S. Tensfeldt (Brigham Property Rights Law Firm, PLLC), Joshua Baker and Stephen Clarke (Waldo &…
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — William & Mary Law School’s eighth Leadership Conference was held on Friday, September 27, and brought many distinguished alumnae back to campus to share advice and expertise with students. The theme this year was “You’ve Already Got the Talent and Training: What Comes Next?” In panels and breakout sessions, students got…
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THE DAILY RECORD — Justin Driver, professor of law at Yale Law School, will deliver the University of Nebraska College of Law’s Lane Lecture at noon on Nov. 8 in the college’s Hamann Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public. Driver will cover race, sex, religion, crime, liberty, patriotism and equality, as well as how…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Do college and university presidents believe their institutions are well prepared to adapt to the major headwinds facing higher education? And are their institutions operating in ways that suggest they are well positioned? The report, “The Transformation-Ready Higher Education Institution,” included a survey of nearly 500 senior administrators at four-year colleges and universities,…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true. Observers of gender dynamics, casual or expert, probably won’t be surprised by the findings. But they do…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — ull- and part-time professors at the University of New Mexico voted to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors, they announced late last week. The vote was 500 to 304 in favor of unionization among full-time professors. Among adjuncts, the vote was 256…
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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…
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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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