Capital Law names Reynaldo Anaya Valencia as dean
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL — Following a nationwide search, Capital University is pleased to announce the appointment of Reynaldo Anaya Valencia as dean of the Law School. Since June 2015, he has served as associate dean for Finance and Administration, and as professor of Law at University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law.
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Brian Gran, a professor in both the law school and the Department of Sociology, was recently awarded a RAPID grant from the Law and Science Program of the National Science Foundation.
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COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — Oluwatumise Asebiomo ’21, who was appointed editor in chief of the Columbia Law Review in February, is motivated by intellectual challenges. It’s the reason she enrolled at Columbia Law School and why she applied to join the influential journal at the end of her 1L year.
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FLORIDA A&M COLLEGE OF LAW — Pre-law students who registered for the Florida A&M University (FAMU) Legal Scholars Summer Boot Camp were up for the challenges presented in this thought-provoking two-week virtual session.
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ELON UNIVERSITY — Elon Law Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law George R. Johnson Jr. is one of five recipients of an annual honor bestowed by the North Carolina Bar Association’s Minorities in the Profession Committee.
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Jordana Confino, director of professionalism and special projects and adjunct professor, wrote an article, published in the Journal of Legal Education, titled “Where Are We on the Path to Law Student Well-Being?: Report on the ABA CoLAP Law Student Assistance Committee Law School Wellness Survey.” Confino examines how the well-being of law students…
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FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Fordham Law’s McGannon Center has received a $50,000 award from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support research into the impact of public communications infrastructure projects, including the WiFi kiosk networks in New York City and Philadelphia. Those specific projects aim to improve internet access to communities who might otherwise…
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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — The University of Kentucky Libraries recently awarded 10 Alternative Textbook Grants to UK faculty who will replace traditional commercial textbooks with open educational resources, library-licensed materials or original content created by the faculty themselves. The grant recipients teach a variety of subjects, ranging from law and biology to history and clinical leadership and management.
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Criminal Justice Reform Clinic joined five other organizations, NAACP Oregon, Coalition of Communities of Color, Don’t Shoot Portland, Latino Network, and Street Roots, in filing five different amicus curiae briefs ask the Oregon Supreme Court to hold that all convictions obtained in a trial that included the nonunanimous jury…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Lewis & Clark Law Review has published Volume 24, Issue 2 and all articles are available online. The Symposium issue is a collection of articles that were presented at the “Class Actions, Mass Torts, and MDLs: the Next 50 Years” symposium held at the law school on November 1-2, 2019 and co-hosted…
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