Duke Law names clinical professor as new director of Law & Entrepreneurship Program

February 12, 2018

DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW – Clinical Professor Erika Buell, who brings broad experience advising start-ups and technology companies, has been named director of Duke Law’s Law & Entrepreneurship Program.

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Duke Law selects University of Virginia Law professor Kerry Abrams as dean

February 5, 2018

DUKE UNIVERSITY – Karen L. “Kerry” Abrams, the vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of law at the University of Virginia, has been selected as the next dean of Duke Law School.

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Law deans from Indiana Maurer Law, Temple Law comment on increase in law school applications

February 5, 2018

U.S. NEWS – Experts predict that the demand for a J.D. will continue to escalate even after this admissions cycle is finished and that law schools will become increasingly competitive.

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Hofstra Law Dean A. Gail Prudenti discusses the need for medical-legal partnerships

February 5, 2018

LONG ISLAND BUSINESS NEWS – “The educational component seeks to break down professional blockades and foster collaboration and communication between the two disciplines.”

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Seton Hall Law Dean Kathleen Boozang discusses success of part-time weekend law program

February 5, 2018

ROI-NJ – The school said part-time applications rose 41 percent in 2017, in part due to the new program, from 222 in the 2016 year to 314 in the 2017 year.

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Catholic University Law professor urges congress to improve human trafficking laws

February 5, 2018

ARLINGTON CATHOLIC HERALD – Mary Graw Leary has spent much of her law career fighting against the abuse and exploitation of society’s most vulnerable.

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University of Illinois Law professor named the 2018 recipient of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society’s religious freedom award

February 5, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF LAW – Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson has been selected by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society as the 2018 recipient of the Thomas L. Kane Religious Freedom Award.

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University of Chicago Law professor to receive humanistic studies award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

February 5, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL – The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has named Martha Craven Nussbaum the recipient of the 2017 Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies.

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