Northern Kentucky University Law professor Michael Mannheimer to publish book on how the Fourth Amendment can improve policing
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — Professor Michael Mannheimer is a busy man at Salmon P. Chase College of Law: He teaches, he supervises a clinic-style program, he speaks at forums, and he writes – a lot. Along with being the author of more than two dozen law review articles, numerous scholarly papers and commentaries, he is the author…
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ABA JOURNAL — Katrice Williams attends Cleveland State University’s Marshall College of Law, which is in the same town where police killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was playing at the park with a toy gun, in 2014. After that, in 2015, the city entered a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, agreeing…
Read More about CSU Cleveland-Marshall Law student Katrice Williams helps research police policies for public databaseFordham Law Parole Advocacy Initiative trains volunteer attorneys to appeal parole denials
FORDGAM LAW NEWS — Approximately 100 attorneys completed virtual training to provide volunteer legal aid to incarcerated people appealing parole denials, through Fordham Law School’s Parole Advocacy Initiative (PAI) on Feb. 16. The initiative is a collaboration between the Parole Preparation Project, a New York City-based nonprofit that has advocated for the release of those serving…
Read More about Fordham Law Parole Advocacy Initiative trains volunteer attorneys to appeal parole denialsGift to University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law to help launch enhanced community policing project
WILLIAM H. BOWEN SCHOOL OF LAW — The UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law’s Center for Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform announced that Walmart Inc. has contributed $210,000 to the Center to develop an enhanced community policing project. The program aims to foster greater collaboration between local law enforcement and the communities…
Read More about Gift to University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law to help launch enhanced community policing projectUniversity of Baltimore Law Innocence Project director Erica J. Suter represents client from “Serial” podcast
THE BALTIMORE SUN — Clothing, shoes and other pieces of evidence collected in the infamous Baltimore murder case against Adnan Syed will be sent off to a California lab for new DNA analysis, a city judge has ordered. Together, Syed’s attorney and Baltimore prosecutors asked the court last week to consider new post-conviction DNA testing, arguing that…
Read More about University of Baltimore Law Innocence Project director Erica J. Suter represents client from “Serial” podcastUniversity at Buffalo Law Family Violence and Women’s Rights Clinic celebrates 30th anniversary
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO SCHOOL OF LAW — It was in 1992 that a domestic violence clinic was created at the law school by co-directors Suzanne Tomkins ’92 and Dr. Catherine Cerulli ’92, with critical guidance from the late Professor Isabel Marcus. Thirty years later, students and faculty in what is now known as the Family Violence…
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UCI LAW — Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, will deliver the keynote address for UCI Law’s 2022 commencement ceremony Saturday, May 7, 9:30 a.m. at the UCI Bren Events Center. Catherine Lhamon recently served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council for…
Read More about US Department of Education assistant secretary to deliver UC Irvine Law commencement keynoteCase Western Reserve Law dean Michael Scharf to moderate discussion on the Ukraine invasion
CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has abruptly transformed the world. The unprovoked and brutal military campaign has resulted in destruction of cities, widespread civilian casualties and millions of refugees. The West has responded with crippling sanctions, and Russia has answered with implied threats to use nuclear and chemical weapons. As…
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law dean Michael Scharf to moderate discussion on the Ukraine invasionCase Western Reserve Law First Amendment Clinic wins case in US Court of Appeals
CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Her client, Michael Wood, wore a shirt bearing the words “F*ck the Police” to the county fair. According to Wood, the defendant police officers ordered him to leave and escorted him from the fairgrounds because of his shirt. Wood, who levied numerous profanities at the police and the fairground’s…
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law First Amendment Clinic wins case in US Court of AppealsCase Western Reserve Law webinar explores Supreme Court case on greenhouse gas emissions
CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Can the Environmental Protection Agency take aggressive action to control greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector? This is the question facing the U.S. Supreme Court in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. In this one-hour webinar held on Feb. 24, 2022, “Climate Change Returns to the Supreme Court:…
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