Cornell Law professor Sheri Johnson argues death penalty case before U.S. Supreme Court
CORNELL CHRONICLE — Cornell law professor Sheri Lynn Johnson, a member of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, argues at the Supreme Court March 20 on behalf of Curtis Flowers, a man from Mississippi who spent 22 years in prison, much of it on death row, for four murders he says he did not commit.
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LAW.COM — Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University has added a second U.S. Supreme Court Justice to its faculty roster. Brett Kavanaugh will co-teach a two-week course in Runnymede, England, this summer on the creation of the Constitution with professor Jennifer Mascott.
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UH LAW CENTER — Four Lawyering Skills and Strategies professors at the University of Houston Law Center have assumed leadership roles on key committees in national legal writing organizations.
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SALT LAKE TRIBUNE — For the first time since it was founded more than a century ago, the University of Utah law school has named a woman as its dean. Elizabeth Kronk Warner has accepted an offer to be the next dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law, which opened its doors 106 years ago.
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — University of South Carolina Law Professor Marie Boyd got interested in studying the regulation of insects as food as part of her research on the Food and Drug Administration. She says insect-based food has a long way to go, both from a cultural and regulatory standpoint, in the United…
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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Maine Law Professor Lois Lupica has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to study in Australia in 2019. This prestigious award will allow Lupica to conduct her research, guest lecture, and mentor students at the top ranked Australian law school – the University of Melbourne Law School.
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LAW.COM — The wave of minority women taking the helm at law schools is gaining momentum. Two law schools in the past week have named black women as dean. Stetson University College of Law has tapped Michele Alexandre, the first African-American to fill that role.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — On Tuesday, March 19, American University Washington College of Law welcomed former International Court of Justice (ICJ) Judge and former AUWCL Dean Thomas Buergenthal – one of the world’s leading international law and international human rights scholars – for a conversation with Professor and Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman.
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TALK BUSINESS POLITICS — Margaret Sova McCabe didn’t want simply to be a law school dean. She wanted to hold the position at a public, land-grant and flagship university, and one that was a top 100 school as the legal profession is sensitive to rankings.
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW — Professor Lisa Benjamin, the newest faculty member of Lewis & Clark Law School’s Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Program, has been appointed to be a member of the Compliance Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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