Two Oklahoma Law professors appointed to advisory committee of U.S. Civil Rights Commission

September 18, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF LAW – Mary Sue Backus and Joseph Thai have been appointed to the Oklahoma Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

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WVU Law professor appointed director of immigration law clinic

September 18, 2017

DOMINION POST – Professor Alison Peck has been appointed director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the WVU College of Law.

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Former Notre Dame Law dean finds new mission in helping prisoners

September 18, 2017

SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE – Link, now 81, enjoyed a storied career as a tax attorney, dean of the University of Notre Dame’s law school for 24 years.

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Visiting professor of practice at Maine Law named arbitrator for E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield program

September 18, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW – Peter Guffin has been selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce and European Commission to serve as an arbitrator for the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield arbitration program.

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University of Kentucky Law professor to release book on New York’s ‘gaslight lawyers’ of the turn of the 20th century

September 18, 2017

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY – Richard H. Underwood, the Edward T. Breathitt Professor of Law, will celebrate the release of his new book, “Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York.”

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Northwestern Law adds former U.S. attorney to faculty as visiting distinguished scholar

September 18, 2017

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY – Zach Fardon, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, will be joining Northwestern Pritzker School of Law as a Visiting Distinguished Scholar for the 2017-18 academic year.

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President Trump taps Columbia Law professor Robert Jackson for open Democratic seat at SEC

September 11, 2017

BLOOMBERG POLITICS – Law professor Robert Jackson is the Trump administration’s pick to fill the open Democratic seat at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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John Marshall Law professor helps open first law school in Bhutan

September 11, 2017

JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL – Professor Mark Wojcik has been working as a Fulbright Specialist at the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law in Thimphu, Bhutan since July.

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Fordham Law adds former CIA director as fellow in the Center on National Security

September 11, 2017

ABC – John Brennan, who led the agency from 2013 until January of this year, took the new position.

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New Harvard Law Dean John Manning welcomes incoming class of students

September 11, 2017

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL – In his first address to incoming students since he was named dean of Harvard Law School on July 1, John Manning ’85 welcomed this year’s 1L class.

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