Columbia Law Professor Alexandra Carter wins teaching award from university
COLUMBIA LAW — Alexandra Carter, a clinical professor of law whose students laud her as a mentor and role model, was honored by Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger ’71 with the university’s Presidential Award for Teaching at commencement on May 22.
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LAW.COM — In his two-plus years on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Neil Gorsuch has earned a reputation as someone who did not always follow court traditions or norms when it came to his oddly written opinions or his snippy questions at oral argument.
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COLUMBIA LAW — International law to protect refugees, forged in the aftermath of World War II, is in retreat, International Rescue Committee President David Miliband told current and former editors of Columbia Law School’s Journal of Transnational Law at the 45th annual Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Banquet.
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UCLA LAW — Culminating years of work led by UCLA School of Law professor Jill Horwitz, on May 20 the American Law Institute approved a comprehensive compendium of the legal issues that confront charitable nonprofit institutions.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — On Friday, May 17, at Kaufman and Canoles in Norfolk, Virginia, Professors Heather Ridenour and David Spratt were the primary presenters at the Fourth Annual Legal Writing Workshop for practicing attorneys.
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INDIANA DAILY STUDENT — An IU law professor resigned Friday after IU concluded a Title IX investigation. Ian Samuel posted a letter explaining his resignation to Provost Lauren Robel on his Twitter account Friday.
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ALBANY LAW — The Schenectady County Bar Association presented its President’s Award to Albany Law School Professor Michael J. Hutter on Thursday, May 16.
Read More about Albany Law Professor Michael Hutter honored by Schenectady County Bar AssociationOpinion: Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy addresses treatment of professor Ronald Sullivan
NEW YORK TIMES — Harvard betrays a law professor — and itself. Misguided students believe that defending Harvey Weinstein makes Ronald Sullivan unfit to be their dean. Apparently the university agrees.
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ABA JOURNAL — Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., a Harvard Law School professor, resigned last week from Harvey Weinstein’s criminal defense team. However, that didn’t stop the university’s decision to remove him and his wife, lecturer Stephanie Robinson, from their roles as faculty deans for undergraduate student housing.
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — Thirty-two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been awarded 2019-20 faculty fellowships. The awardees span the four divisions — arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences and biological sciences — on campus.
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