Texas A&M Law professor Guillermo Garcia-Sanchez presents research on energy dispute resolution to Mexican regulators
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas A&M Law Professor Guillermo Garcia-Sanchez presented his research on international energy dispute resolution at the Mexican National Hydrocarbons Commission in late May. The Commission is an autonomous, government agency in charge of regulating, overseeing and evaluating all hydrocarbons exploration and production activities in Mexico.
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WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY — West Virginia Law Professors Patrick McGinley and Suzanne Weise helped secure the recent release of data that is shedding light on the national distribution of opioids. Both professors represented pro bono the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette-Mail and its parent company, HD Media, in a year-long federal court legal battle.
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Brooklyn Law Professor Julian Arato, who co-directs the Dennis J. Block Center for International Business Law, has been appointed by The Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) to its prestigious Academic Council. Members of the ITA Academic Council are top academic scholars in the field of international arbitration.
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DREXEL UNIVERSITY KLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Drexel Law Associate Dean Susan L. Brooks will give a presentation at the University of Turin School of Law in Italy on July 15. Brooks will discuss “Teaching and Assessing Reflective Practice Through Relational Lawyering,” a subject about which she has written numerous scholarly journals and book chapters.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Sondra R. Tennessee, the Associate Dean of Alumni and Community Relations at the University of Houston Law Center, will be working with attorneys from across the country to improve mental health wellness throughout the legal profession. Tennessee was recently reappointed to the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Program.
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS — University of Arkansas Law Professor and dean emerita Stacy Leeds reflects on her storied career. Leeds has taught at several universities, was in the running to be principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, and has served in her current position as vice chancellor for Economic Development for nearly three years.
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BU TODAY — Maureen O’Rourke, former dean of Boston University School of Law, has been named associate provost for faculty affairs. In addition, O’Rourke will serve in Morrison’s Cabinet, working on such matters as faculty diversity, development, work-life balance, and the University’s equal opportunity and Title IX commitments.
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor cited Brooklyn Law Professor Jocelyn Simonson’s article, Beyond Body Cameras: Defending a Robust Right to Record the Police (2016) in her dissent to the majority opinion in Nieves v. Bartlett.
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UCLA NEWSROOM — UCLA Law Professor Steven Bank focuses much of his writing and teaching on the law and history of taxation, corporate governance and executive compensation. But he also kicks out scholarly essays on legal issues involving soccer’s governing bodies, including FIFA.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA Law professor Richard Steinberg has been appointed to a position on the Trade and Environmental Policy Advisory Committee, a group that counsels and makes recommendations to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
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