University of Houston Law Center legal writing professors share expertise with national organizations
UH LAW CENTER — Four Lawyering Skills and Strategies professors at the University of Houston Law Center have assumed leadership roles on key committees in national legal writing organizations.
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SALT LAKE TRIBUNE — For the first time since it was founded more than a century ago, the University of Utah law school has named a woman as its dean. Elizabeth Kronk Warner has accepted an offer to be the next dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law, which opened its doors 106 years ago.
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — University of South Carolina Law Professor Marie Boyd got interested in studying the regulation of insects as food as part of her research on the Food and Drug Administration. She says insect-based food has a long way to go, both from a cultural and regulatory standpoint, in the United…
Read More about University of South Carolina Law professor examines insect-based food and FDA regulationsMaine Law Professor named Fulbright Senior Scholar
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW — Maine Law Professor Lois Lupica has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to study in Australia in 2019. This prestigious award will allow Lupica to conduct her research, guest lecture, and mentor students at the top ranked Australian law school – the University of Melbourne Law School.
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LAW.COM — The wave of minority women taking the helm at law schools is gaining momentum. Two law schools in the past week have named black women as dean. Stetson University College of Law has tapped Michele Alexandre, the first African-American to fill that role.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — On Tuesday, March 19, American University Washington College of Law welcomed former International Court of Justice (ICJ) Judge and former AUWCL Dean Thomas Buergenthal – one of the world’s leading international law and international human rights scholars – for a conversation with Professor and Dean Emeritus Claudio Grossman.
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TALK BUSINESS POLITICS — Margaret Sova McCabe didn’t want simply to be a law school dean. She wanted to hold the position at a public, land-grant and flagship university, and one that was a top 100 school as the legal profession is sensitive to rankings.
Read More about University of Arkansas Law Dean Margaret Sova McCabe details vision for the schoolLewis & Clark Law professor Lisa Benjamin appointed to U.N. Climate Change committee
LEWIS & CLARK LAW — Professor Lisa Benjamin, the newest faculty member of Lewis & Clark Law School’s Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law Program, has been appointed to be a member of the Compliance Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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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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