Women faculty discuss teaching at UMass Law
UMASS LAW NEWS — With the most recent grant of tenure, women now make up 54% of the tenured faculty at UMass Law. Overall, 55% of UMass Law students are female, including 59% in this year’s entering class. Nationally, UMass Law is one of only 22 ABA-accredited law schools with a majority female tenured faculty.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — We Robot, the yearly interdisciplinary conference on the legal and policy questions relating to robots, unites those on the front lines of robot design, development, and deployment with legal policy makers and influencers in the legal and social structures in the robotic sphere.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Just as 2020 came to a close, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued a groundbreaking decision, taking a bold stand against the criminalization of poverty and marginalization, an area of focus for Miami Law’s Human Rights Clinic.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE — Brandie Burris, 2L, was recently elected editor-in-chief of Minnesota Law Review. She is the first Black student to hold that position in the publication’s 104-year history. “I am honored and pleased that my peers thought that I am the right leader for the role,” says Burris.
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MISSOURI LAWYERS MEDIA — Missouri Lawyers Media will honor 21 attorneys, firms and legal professionals from around the state with its 2021 Diversity & Inclusion Awards for their work to support and advance those initiatives. The 2021 class of honorees includes S. David Mitchell, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law.
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UPI — The American Civil Liberties Union’s national board announced Monday that New York University School of Law professor Deborah Archer would be the group’s new president, the first Black person to lead the organization’s board of directors.
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NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY — North Carolina Central University School of Law is participating in the national expansion of the Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship Program in collaboration with other law schools and the John Paul Stevens Fellowship Foundation.
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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — As a member of the Massachusetts State Advisory Committee (Mass. SAC) of the US Commission on Civil Rights, Professor Martha Davis co-authored a newly-released report on Water Affordability in Massachusetts. Four Northeastern Law students also worked on the report.
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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Northeastern Law will celebrate Black History Month 2021 with a slate of virtual events including a bookclub hosted by Professor Patricia Williams, a pioneer of both the law and literature and critical race theory movements in American legal theory.
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NORTHWESTERN NOW — Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) will award its sixth Global Jurist of the Year Award to Justice Mumbi Ngugi, Judge of the High Court of Kenya, who serves in the Anti-corruption and Economic Crimes Division of the High Court.
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