Pace Law receives grant to develop experiential learning opportunities
PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has received a generous five-year grant to name its Investor Rights Clinic after RealFi Financial LLC, a leading, technology-driven, alternative investment management firm. The newly named RealFi Funding Investor Rights Clinic is recognized across the country as a leader…
Read More about Pace Law receives grant to develop experiential learning opportunitiesPace Law professor Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer delivers lecture on social media law
PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer delivered the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, October 6, on “Social Media and the Common Law.” Dean Horace Anderson appointed Professor Tenzer as the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2019-2021 term. During the holder’s term, the James…
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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC — The University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law is building on its commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging by joining the California Leadership-Access-Workforce (Cal LAW) Pathways program as one of the program’s institutional partners. The program aims to establish a pipeline of diverse students from high schools, community colleges, four-year institutions,…
Read More about University of the Pacific McGeorge joins program to diversify the legal professionPenn Law Global Institute for Human Rights hosts hackathon focused on building a better post-COVID-19 world
PENN LAW — Over the summer, over 65 emerging young leaders from over 13 countries came together for the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s 2021Global Institute for Human Rights (GIHR) organized by Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership and the Academic Director of the Global Institute for Human Rights, and…
Read More about Penn Law Global Institute for Human Rights hosts hackathon focused on building a better post-COVID-19 worldSouth Texas College of Law Houston faculty and students help prepare alumnus for US Supreme Court arguments
SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON — South Texas College of Law Houston (STCL Houston) alumnus Richard A. “Rick” Morris ’91 will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court Nov. 2, and he has engaged STCL Houston professors and law students as he prepares to appeal the important Houston-based First Amendment case. When Morris, a partner at Rogers,…
Read More about South Texas College of Law Houston faculty and students help prepare alumnus for US Supreme Court argumentsUSC Gould Law vice dean Franita Tolson testifies before US Senate committee on restoration of the Voting Rights Act
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — On the heels of appearances this summer before two Congressional committees, USC Gould School of Law constitutional law expert Franita Tolson testified Sept. 22 before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee – Subcommittee on The Constitution, at a hearing on “Restoring the Voting Rights Act: Combating Discriminatory Abuses.” Her presentation on Capitol…
Read More about USC Gould Law vice dean Franita Tolson testifies before US Senate committee on restoration of the Voting Rights ActUSC Gould Law Supreme Court preview looks at key cases for upcoming term
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — The USC Gould School of Law brought back the popular Supreme Court Preview in late September, with nationally recognized constitutional law theorist, Professor Rebecca Brown, moderating a virtual conversation with UC Berkeley Law Dean and former Gould professor Erwin Chemerinsky in a discussion about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court term. USC…
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SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL — The Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation joins Southwestern Law School to establish awards honoring and supporting outstanding faculty members producing high-quality research and legal scholarship. Six faculty members were honored as the inaugural recipients of Southwestern’s Montgomery Foundation awards for the current academic year.
Read More about Six Southwestern Law professors recognized for outstanding scholarshipStanford Law professor Nora Freeman Engstrom to deliver lecture on torts at University of Cincinnati Law
UC CINCINNATI — Nora Freeman Engstrom, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, will discuss the question “If not some meta theory, what does explain tort law, as it currently exists?”, in her lecture “The Accidental Origins and Haphazard Construction of Tort”. This event, the 2021 Schwartz Lecture in Torts, will be held 12:15…
Read More about Stanford Law professor Nora Freeman Engstrom to deliver lecture on torts at University of Cincinnati LawStanford Law project works to reform redistricting in the US
STANFORD LAW NEWS — Redistricting in the United States is a legally required process of drawing new congressional and state legislative district boundaries to account for population shifts. Most redistricting takes place every 10 years, shortly after the release of the decennial U.S. census, and is conducted by state legislatures. While many believe redistricting should be based…
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