UC Irvine Law Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology clinic provides updates to fair use research project

March 9, 2022

UCI IP ARTS &TECH CLINIC — Last year, in celebration of Fair Use Week, the IPAT clinic took a deep dive into fair use. We looked at every written judicial opinion that discussed fair use from the beginning of 2019 through February 2021, and made them available in a searchable, sortable databasewith abstracts and commentary and…

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Case Western Reserve University Law invites Mayor of Cleveland Justin Bibb to deliver commencement address

March 9, 2022

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Justin Bibb, a double alumnus (LAW ’18; MGT ’18) who won a landslide victory last fall to become Cleveland’s 58th mayor, will deliver Case Western Reserve University’s commencement address Sunday, May 15, at the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Center. And, just as he simultaneously earned two degrees at…

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Case Western Reserve University Law professor Maxwell Mehlman appointed to Department of Defense post

March 9, 2022

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Maxwell Mehlman, Distinguished University Professor, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was appointed bioethics reviewer for the Department of Defense Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program. In this role, Mehlman, who also…

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Case Western Reserve University Law bioethics professor Sharona Hoffman named visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health

March 9, 2022

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is serving as a visiting scholar at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Department of Bioethics in Washington, D.C., during her spring semester sabbatical. As a…

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University of Chicago Law professor Joshua C. Macey honored by Arizona State University Law for article on energy policies

March 8, 2022

ASU NEWS — Joshua C. Macey, professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and Matthew R. Christiansen, general counsel at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, are the recipients of the 2022 Morrison Prize for their scholarly article “Long Live the Federal Power Act’s Bright Line.” Bestowed with the award last year, Macey is the first…

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New Columbia Law courses explore hot topics in the law

March 8, 2022

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Designing a seminar provides an opportunity for Columbia Law School faculty to create courses that are especially relevant to the moment and to glean new insights for their own scholarship from classroom discussions with students. The four courses highlighted here are new to the curriculum for spring 2022.

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Columbia Law professor Kerrel Murray discusses his experience working for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

March 8, 2022

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — On February 25, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to serve as associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. With nomination hearings about to be scheduled, Associate Professor of Law Kerrel Murray—a constitutional…

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A look at Columbia Law leadership fellows and their projects to advance legal education

March 8, 2022

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Columbia Law School’s Davis Polk Leadership Initiative fellows receive training, financial support, and mentorship from faculty, experts, and alumni as they work to advance a project that broadens the reach of legal education and legal services. Learn more about this year’s fellows and Innovation Grant recipients below and on the program’s website.

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Drexel Law professor Lisa Tucker discusses her life-long friendship with US Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

March 8, 2022

NBC PHILADELPHIA — Lisa Tucker, a Drexel University associate law professor, went to Harvard Law School with President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson. She talked with NBC10 reporter Cydney Long about their enduring friendship.

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Large gift to George Washington University Law will create professorship for First Amendment law

March 8, 2022

GW TODAY — Bobby R. Burchfield prepared for his impressive four-decade legal career in the classrooms and in the stacks of the Jacob Burns Library at the GW Law. Now, Burchfield, through the Burchfield Family Charitable Foundation, has made a landmark gift to highly ranked GW Law to create a new professorship and recruit a nationally-recognized…

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