Notre Dame Law professor Paolo Carozza appointed to international legal body Venice Commission
NOTRE DAME LAW — The U.S. Department of State recently appointed Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza to serve on the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, a prestigious international body of lawyers, judges, academics, and government officials.
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ABOVE THE LAW — The younger wave of IP-focused academics continues to deserve our attention. At the forefront of the burgeoning field of design law is Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW — James Dwyer, the Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law at William & Mary, has spent his sabbatical engaging in research and working on several major publishing projects. He has been at William & Mary since 2000.
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — Georgia State Law alumna Sylvia Caley ’89 is retiring after 11 years as the director of the Health Law Partnership (HeLP), a medical-legal community collaboration among Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and the College of Law and the co-director of the HeLP Legal Services Clinic, which she helped found.
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OLE MISS NEWS — Sandra Cox-McCarty, associate dean for administration and diversity initiatives at the University of Mississippi School of Law, is dedicated to diversity and inclusion. For more than 27 years, she has worked diligently to create an atmosphere of inclusivity and tolerance. Because of her efforts and successes,
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RECORDNET — Michael Hunter Schwartz, dean of the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, was named interim provost of the university on Tuesday.
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PRESS RELEASE — The John Marshall Law School in Chicago has been named a top producing institution for Fulbright U.S. Scholars. John Marshall was one of only four schools in the country, and the only law school in the Midwest, to be listed as a top producer in the specialized institutions category.
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UH LAW CENTER — Clinical Associate Professor Geoffrey Hoffman, director of the University of Houston Law Center’s Immigration Clinic, discussed new practices in the field of immigration law as a panelist at a national conference last week in Miami.
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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII NEWS — The dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law has announced his retirement after 16 years in the leadership position on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus. Aviam “Avi” Soifer, who has served as dean since 2003, led the law school through two successful reaccreditations
Read More about University of Hawaii Law Dean Aviam Soifer to retire from post at end of yearHarvard Professor William Alford receives Li Buyun Law Prize for Chinese legal research
HARVARD LAW TODAY — William P. Alford ’77, the Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, received the Li Buyun Law Prize from the Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law
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