University of Minnesota Law professor Michael Tonry awarded Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL — Professor Michael Tonry has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. The highly competitive, annual national fellowship was awarded to 174 American and Canadian scholars, writers, and artists selected from among more nearly 3,000 applicants.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL — CaringBridge Chief Executive Officer Liwanag Ojala ’98 will be the Law School’s 2021 commencement speaker. CaringBridge is a nonprofit organization that has more than 43 million unique users across all 50 states and 236 countries and territories around the world.
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UNM NEWSROOM — The Pueblo of Laguna and Pueblo of Jemez filed a federal lawsuit to protect clean water in New Mexico. The lawsuit, filed against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the U.S. District Court for New Mexico, challenges the Trump Administration’s Navigable Waters Protection Rule.
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TRIBECA CITIZEN — After hosting a public panel discussion online last week, New York Law School is going to move ahead with a “Tribeca Pandemic Recovery Task Force,” choosing a small group of leading members (five or more) to meet twice a month beginning later in April.
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NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW — In an increasingly digital world, Chase College of Law is expanding its Master of Legal Studies program with new courses that combine law and technology, and putting those courses entirely online to reach students anyplace they might be in the physical world.
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NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW — Like the technology industry it embraces, the Law + Informatics Institute at Chase College of Law is upgrading to a new version. “The Law + Informatics Institute is being reimagined and reinvigorated to spotlight the import of data gathering, protection and dissemination.”
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NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — Professor Martha Davis, faculty director for Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and the NuLawLab, is a co-editor of the newly published Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).
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NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — In an event Monday held in response to a spate of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S., Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern, called upon university officials to create a “comprehensive action plan” by the end of May to address ways in which Northeastern can better support its students and community.
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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Stephanie Hartung has been appointed to the affiliate program at Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research. This interdisciplinary network of faculty and graduate students from Boston University and colleges and universities around New England bring their expertise.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE LEGAL FOUNDATION — The Social Justice Legal Foundation is proud to announce the inaugural class of fellows from each of the five collaborating schools – Columbia, Northwestern, Stanford, UCLA and Yale law schools. The incoming fellows have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to public interest legal work.
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