Fordham Law Professor Deborah Denno cited in Supreme Court death penalty case

April 15, 2019

FORDHAM LAW —  The United States Supreme Court cited professor Denno’s 2007 Fordham Law Review article and her 2014 Georgetown Law Journal article on lethal injection.

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Georgetown Law Professor Peter Edelman delivers keynote address at conference on child homelessness at University of Baltimore Law

April 15, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE LAW — The theme of homelessness was a timely one for the 11th Annual Urban Child Symposium, because housing insecurity is such a serious, and growing, challenge for inner-city families and youth.

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Sarah Lora to lead Low Income Taxpayer Clinic at Lewis & Clark Law

April 15, 2019

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — Oregon attorney Sarah Lora will lead the Lewis & Clark Law School Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) starting in June 2019. Lora will replace beloved faculty member Jan Pierce, who is retiring this year after 19 years leading the clinic and serving as a clinical professor.

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University of Hawaii Law archivist Avis Poai recognized for work preserving historic Hawaiian legal materials

April 15, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII NEWS — Hawaiʻi Business magazine selected University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Avis Poai as one of the “20 for the Next 20.” Poai serves as director of archives, legal history and student outreach at the School of Law’s Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law.

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Outgoing University of Miami Law Dean Patricia White discusses how law schools can prepare students to be better citizens

April 15, 2019

LAW.COM — Patricia White thinks that 10 years is enough. Her tenure as the first woman law dean at Arizona State University spanned a decade. And now, she’s winding down her 10th year as dean at the University of Miami School of Law.

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University of Missouri Law Dean Lyrissa Lidsky shares her fight against cancer

April 15, 2019

LAW.COM — The first week of April was a low point in University of Missouri Law Dean Lyrissa Lidsky’s four-month-old battle with breast cancer. She’d recently wrapped up her fourth round of chemotherapy and a bout of bronchitis had exiled her to her home for a week of recovery—doctor’s orders.

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Quinnipiac University Law Dean Jennifer Gerarda Brown honored by New Haven business magazine

April 15, 2019

NEW HAVEN BIZ — New Haven BIZ today announces the seven winners of its 2019 Women Who Mean Business awards, which recognize outstanding achievement by female leaders across a broad spectrum of professional endeavor.

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University of Tennessee Law Professor Penny White honored by the Southeastern Conference

April 15, 2019

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE LAW — A College of Law professor and former judge has been recognized for her work with a 2019 SEC Faculty Achievement Award. Penny White, the Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law, serves as director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution in UT’s College of Law.

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Texas A&M Law Professor Neil Sobol testified in support of state consumer debt collection reform

April 15, 2019

TAMU LAW — TAMU Law Professor Neil Sobol testified in support of Texas House Bill 996 before the Texas House Committee on pensions, investments and financial services late March in Austin.

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University of Virginia Law Professors explore economic disparity in criminal justice through new research

April 15, 2019

UVA LAW — Two new papers by University of Virginia School of Law professors look at how indigent defendants face more obstacles than others in the justice system, and possible solutions to the problem.

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