NYU Law student Rochelle Ballantyne discusses her quest to be the first Black woman chess master in the US
YAHOO! – “I am close to becoming the first African-American female chess master.” Law student Rochelle Ballantyne has a current chess rating of around 2000, which earns her the official title of chess expert. To become a chess master, players must reach the magic number of 2200. “It is obviously not easy to become a master. I’ve been trying to…
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NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — Business innovator and investor W. Bruce Lunsford has made the largest gift to Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law in its 129-year history, to expand the college’s law and technology program he helped launch nearly a decade ago, when the digital economy was still in early development. Mr. Lunsford, who…
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NORTHWESTERN NOW — A team from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Bartlit Center on Trial Advocacy won the Midwest Regional of the National Trial Competition, held last weekend in a remote format. They will now go on to compete for the national championship, which will be held in person in Fort Worth, Texas, March 30-April 3. The team…
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NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW — When Ernest Greer (JD ’91) met Jared Bartie (JD ’93) in the early 1990s, the two formed an instant connection. “I could tell he was a good guy,” Greer, who was a 3L at the time, says. “He was real and authentic, not trying to play to an audience.” Bartie,…
Read More about New Northwestern Law scholarship honors students who exemplify leadership and resilienceNotre Dame Law professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer discusses research in election and non-profit law
CAPITAL RESEARCH — Professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer has researched, studied, taught, and written about many various aspects of nonprofit and election law since he came to Notre Dame Law School 17 years ago from the Washington, D.C., office of Caplin & Drysdale, where he’d practiced in those same areas for almost a decade. Mayer’s recent published scholarship, for example,…
Read More about Notre Dame Law professor Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer discusses research in election and non-profit lawPenn Law to host World Health Organization director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for lecture
PENN LAW — On Friday, March 4, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will deliver the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s 2022 Leon C. and June W. Holt Lecture in International Law. Dr. Tedros will speak about the World Health Assembly’s recent consensus and global process currently underway to draft and negotiate a…
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PENN LAW — Deputy Dean for Clinical Education Praveen Kosuri suspects that when most people think of “entrepreneurship,” they tend to think of greedy corporations, but for the students in the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (ELC), entrepreneurship and creating positive social impact go hand-in-hand. “There’s a misperception that what we do doesn’t…
Read More about Penn Law Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic students partner local businesses on neighborhood revitalizationPenn Law professor Wendell Pritchett discusses new role as interim university president
PENN LAW — Wendell Pritchett is Penn’s Interim President and the James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He previously served as provost at Penn from July 1, 2017, through July 1, 2021. He first joined the Law School faculty in 2002 and served as Interim…
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USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — It took filing a federal lawsuit for Professor Emily Ryo to complete a new empirical study on the naturalization, or citizenship, process. “The Importance of Race, Gender, and Religion in Naturalization Adjudication in the United States,” co-written with Reed Humphrey (MPP 2018), Ph.D. candidate at the Evans School of Public Policy, University…
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WGNO — Southern University Law Center is celebrating its 75th anniversary. The center opened back in 1947 to help provide legal education to African-Americans everywhere. 30-year faculty member and Chancellor John Pierre says Southern University’s Law Center started as an intimate school with only 13 students, now they have over 900. “You have to have the faith…
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