Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza to help lead research aimed at preventing sexual abuse

May 8, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza will help lead a University of Notre Dame initiative to study issues emerging from the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. Carozza will serve on a six-member steering committee that will solicit proposals for research addressing the crisis.

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University of Missouri Law community supports Dean Lyrissa Lidsky through cancer treatment

May 8, 2019

COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN — Missouri Law Dean Lyrissa Lidsky strode into her First Amendment class in Hulston Hall, wearing a black-and-gold scarf around her head. She exuded energy and passion for her topic that Tuesday: commercial speech. Lidsky has continued to teach while undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. She became the dean in 2017.  

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Elon Law Professor Henry Gabriel awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law

May 8, 2019

ELON UNIVERSITY — Elon Law Professor Henry Gabriel has been awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento in Italy for spring 2020, a recognition of his significant publication and teaching records. Gabriel will teach undergraduates and doctoral students in the university’s renowned program in comparative law.

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Columbia Law Professor Zohar Goshen honored for excellence in teaching

May 7, 2019

COLUMBIA LAW — With his congenial classroom style and a gift for simplification, Professor Zohar Goshen has won the annual Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

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Albany Law Professor Sarah Rogerson to receive Shanara Gilbert Award from AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education

May 6, 2019

ALBANY LAW — On May 5, the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Clinical Legal Education presented the 2019 M. Shanara Gilbert Award—one of the most prestigious national honors in clinical legal education—to Professor Sarah Rogerson, director of Albany Law School’s Immigration Law Clinic.

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A look at the new class of law school deans

May 6, 2019

LAW.COM — So many new law deans have been announced in the past two weeks that I haven’t been able to keep up, so it’s time for a quick accounting of who is soon to take the reins on law campuses.

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University of Virginia Law Professor George Geis honored by university for teaching

May 1, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA SCHOOL OF LAW — University of Virginia School Law Professor George Geis is a recipient of UVA’s All-University Teaching Award this year. Geis, who is the William S. Potter Professor of Law and Thomas F. Bergin Teaching Professor of Law, received the award for his engaging approach to making challenging subject matter accessible.

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Podcast: University of Virginia Professor Dayna Bowen Matthew discusses medical-legal partnerships

May 1, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA SCHOOL OF LAW — Patients in poor health may need the help of a lawyer as much as that of a doctor in some instances. Episode 5 of the podcast “Common Law,” which features University of Virginia Law Professor Dayna Bowen Matthew ’87, looks at health disparities and the promise of medical-legal partnerships.

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University of Virginia Law Professor Michal Barzuza named research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute

May 1, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — University of Virginia Law Professor Michal Barzuza has been named a research member of the Brussels-based European Corporate Governance Institute, which was founded in 2001 to improve corporate governance through fostering independent scientific research and related activities.

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Syracuse Law professor Robert Ashford delivers talk on inclusive capitalism

May 1, 2019

THE DAILY ORANGE — Syracuse Law Professor Robert Ashford held three lectures on inclusive capitalism at the College of Law on Wednesday. During his lectures he said the principle could reduce welfare dependence and taxes, grow the economy and increase infrastructure investment and entrepreneurship.

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