St. Mary’s Law Professor Erica Schommer helps students gain firsthand experience in immigration courts
ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — St. Mary’s Law Professor Erica B. Schommer teaches a semester-long clinic course on immigration and human rights. Schommer takes law students into immigration courts and detention centers to work with asylum seekers by serving as attorneys.
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ABA JOURNAL — Schools usually apply strict standards for tenure, granting it only to the most talented and productive professors. But that’s generally not true at the country’s top 14 law schools, where 95 percent of professors hired on tenure track receive it, according to a paper by three University of Chicago Law School academics.
Read More about Study looks at tenure standards at top law schoolsUniversity of Virginia Law professor Douglas Laycock named reporter for American Law Institute’s restatement on torts
UVA LAW — Professor Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia School of Law, one of the nation’s leading experts on the law of remedies, will serve as a reporter with the American Law Institute’s new restatement project on torts.
Read More about University of Virginia Law professor Douglas Laycock named reporter for American Law Institute’s restatement on tortsChris Guthrie reappointed as dean of Vanderbilt Law
VANDERBILT NEWS — Chris Guthrie has been reappointed to a five-year term as dean of the Vanderbilt Law School. He will begin his third term on July 1, 2019, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente announced today.
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SANTA CLARA LAW — Anna M. Han, an accomplished professor of international, corporate, and technology law, will assume the deanship of Santa Clara University School of Law on an interim basis June 1.
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UMD LAW — Every year when new 1L students congregate in Westminster Hall for law school orientation, I tell them that they are joining one of the noblest professions. These are not just idealistic words from a law school dean: lawyers change the world.
Read More about University of Maryland Law Dean Donald Tobin discusses the role of leadership development in law schoolHarvard Law faculty use law-related blogs to reach key audiences
HARVARD LAW BULLETIN — Jack Goldsmith didn’t plan on building a behemoth. When the Harvard Law professor teamed up with University of Texas at Austin law professor Robert Chesney ’97 and Brookings Institution writer Benjamin Wittes to start the Lawfare blog in 2010, it was launched, he says, with “very modest ambitions and no planning.”
Read More about Harvard Law faculty use law-related blogs to reach key audiencesHarvard Law professors issue comment on Title IX changes
THE HARVARD CRIMSON — As the public comment period for United States Secretary of Education Betsy D. DeVos’s proposed Title IX rules drew to a close Wednesday night, Harvard Law School faculty members Jeannie Suk Gersen, Nancy Gertner, and Janet E. Halley submitted their own response praising and critiquing the requirements.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — Leading University of California scholars in a variety of fields – ranging from religious studies and law to medicine and philosophy – have been named to the inaugural academic advisory board of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
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UCI LAW — The Hastings Center named UCI Law Chancellor’s Professor of Law Michele Bratcher Goodwin a Hastings Center Fellow. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship or public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, life sciences research, and the environment.
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