Quinnipiac Law mediation program to address COVID-19 related evictions and homelessness across Connecticut

March 18, 2021

QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — The School of Law’s Center on Dispute Resolution has launched a Homelessness Mitigation Mediation Program. The program is funded by a $135,000 grant from the Connecticut Department of Housing. Brendan Holt will serve as the program’s executive director.

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Video: University of Richmond Law family law clinic students support parents in child welfare system

March 18, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND SCHOOL OF LAW — Alexandria Brown, Digital Media Manager, sat down with 3Ls to discuss their work in the Jeanette Lipman Family Law Clinic. In this interview, the students explain how they focused on community engagement projects to support parents involved in the child welfare system.

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Santa Clara Law professor Eric Goldman named Knight Visiting Scholar

March 18, 2021

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation named internet law expert Eric Goldman as a Knight Visiting Scholar. Along with Knight Visiting Scholar Mary Anne Franks from the University of Miami School of Law, Professor Goldman will curate a research series and convene thought leaders.

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University of San Diego Law Immigration Clinic and Mulvaney Center host informational DACA forum for community members

March 18, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO NEWS CENTER — The University of San Diego’s Legal Clinics, in partnership with Alliance San Diego, hosted a free, virtual DACA community forum last month for more than 20 participants. The forum provided a comprehensive overview of information about DACA policy updates and eligibility requirements.

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Santa Clara Law professors Stephanie Wildman and Margalynne Armstrong discuss re-release of book on race and privilege

March 18, 2021

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Twenty-five years ago, NYU Press first published Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America by Stephanie Wildman. With contributions from Margalynne Armstrong and others the book explores the systems of privilege the ways these systems remain unaddressed and ignored.

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SMU Dedman Law Criminal Justice Reform Center receives grant for rural justice systems research and right to counsel

March 18, 2021

SMU DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW — The Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at SMU Dedman School of Law was recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Fund at Communities Foundation of Texas to fund research into Texas’s rural criminal justice systems and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

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Research co-authored by University of Virginia Law professor Cathy Hwang explores data on corporate governance

March 18, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Nearly two decades of influential scholarship on how corporations are governed and valued is based on bad data, according to new research co-authored by Cathy Hwang. The paper, “Cleaning Corporate Governance,” reveals that an index cited thousands of times is riddled with errors.

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West Virginia University Law dean Amelia Smith Rinehart discusses her background and vision for the school

March 18, 2021

THE STATE JOURNAL — The West Virginia University College of Law turns 150 in seven years. In new William J. Maier, Jr. Dean Amelia Smith Rinehart, President E. Gordon Gee and Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Maryanne Reed believe they have just the leader to move toward that momentous occasion on a high note.

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Colleges race to announce fall campus reopenings

March 18, 2021

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Good news about the COVID-19 vaccine couldn’t have come at a better time for college admissions officers. Dozens of colleges and universities have recently announced that they’ll be open in person this fall after waiting weeks or months to go public with fall plans. Colleges’ fall announcements started a few weeks ago.

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New advocacy organization launched in defend faculty academic freedom

March 18, 2021

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Two hundred professors launched the nonpartisan Academic Freedom Alliance this week to advocate for free speech in academe and, in some cases, legally defend professors’ academic freedom. Membership is currently by invitation only, but the group plans on opening up to all academics.

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