American University Washington College of Law Professor Amanda Frost awarded American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — American University Washington College of Law Professor Amanda Frost has been selected as a recipient of the 2019 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. During the fellowship, Frost will be working on her forthcoming book, Unmaking Americans: A History of Citizenship Stripping in the United States.
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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW — O’Rourke succeeds Professor Kim Diana Connolly, who led the Advocacy Institute for two years. He says he hopes to build on the strengths that have been developed in the Institute, which is comprised of a panoply of programs designed to build students’ skills in client advocacy.
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DREXEL LAW — Trustee Professor of Law Amy Boss led three seminars at the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative Summit II, hosted by the School of Business at American University in Cairo.
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LAW.COM — Shon Hopwood’s improbable journey from federal inmate to professor at Georgetown University Law Center hit another high this week when President Donald Trump—during a White House celebration Monday—credited the convicted bank robber with helping enact a major federal criminal reform bill.
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NEWSWISE — Newly published research by John Ruple, a research professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, contains the first and only comprehensive review of every prior national monument reductions that occurred as a result of presidential action.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW — Dean Camille Nelson was named among the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine. Nelson is the only law school dean on the list that features 11 university and college presidents, several vice presidents and provosts, among other exceptional professors and administrators.
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BROOKLYN LAW — Professor David Reiss, an expert in Real Estate Finance and Consumer Finance Law and founding director of the Law School’s Community Development Clinic, has been appointed Chair of the New York City Rent Guidelines Board by Mayor Bill de Blasio
Read More about Brooklyn Law Professor David Reiss named Chair of New York City Rent Guidelines BoardUCLA Law bankruptcy professors provide aid to Puerto Rico in debt crisis
UCLA NEWSROOM — Amid a long-running financial crisis aggravated by recession and the ravages of hurricanes Maria and Irma, Puerto Rico and its bondholders have reached a deal that will bring billions of dollars of relief to the island’s economy, thanks in substantial part to two UCLA School of Law professors.
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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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