Brooklyn Law interim dean launches law and policy discussion series
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Interim Brooklyn Law Dean Maryellen Fullerton this month launched the new Dean’s Law and Policy Series, a monthly program that showcases faculty expertise on critical issues of the day and engages the audience in a lively Q&A.
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THE SEATTLE TIMES — The new head of the University of Washington School of Law is a former prosecutor who learned from personal experience how using social identity in a court of law can have long-lasting effects on defendants.
Read More about Profile on new University of Washington Law Dean Mario BarnesFormer Pace Law Dean Alexandra Dunn nominated to lead EPA chemical safety office
PACE UNIVERSITY — Former dean of Pace Law’s environmental law programs Alexandra Dunn, was nominated to be Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Toxic Substances (EPA).
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UCI Law — At the 2nd Annual Diversity & Inclusion Unity in Service Celebration, UC Irvine Law Dean L. Song Richardson received the 2018 “Be The Change” Legal Excellence Award.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that having a chief diversity officer is not linked to significant gains in faculty diversity.
Read More about Study on university chief diversity officers and faculty hiringNorthwestern and Loyola Chicago law professors launch website for empirical analysis of Supreme Court oral arguments
NORTHWESTERN NOW — Tonja Jacobi of Northwestern Law and law professor Matthew Sag of Loyola University of Chicago launched ScotusOA, a website dedicated to empirical analysis of Supreme Court oral arguments.
Read More about Northwestern and Loyola Chicago law professors launch website for empirical analysis of Supreme Court oral argumentsGeorgetown Law welcomes new faculty members
GEORGETOWN LAW — Georgetown Law welcomes four new full-time faculty members for 2018-2019 — accomplished scholars in legal history, technology law, intellectual property and business who will enrich the community in numerous ways.
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ASU NOW — The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University is pleased to welcome four new faculty members for the 2018–19 school year.
Read More about ASU Law welcomes new facultyUniversity of Virginia Law professor leads effort to complete American Law Institute’s foreign relations law restatement
UVA School of Law — University of Virginia School of Law professor Paul Stephan will see six years of work as a coordinating reporter for the American Law Institute come to fruition when ALI publishes its fourth restatement of foreign relations law.
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MISSOULIAN — University of Montana law professor Anthony Johnstone starts the new year by assigning the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, which he says in a microcosm of American constitutional law.
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