William & Mary Law professor Tara Leigh Grove delivers lecture on judicial independence
WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — Professor Tara Grove’s timely lecture on “The Fragility of Judicial Independence” was delivered on January 16 for the 2020 Blackstone Lecture Series. Established in 1996, the series recognizes the scholarly achievements of younger members of the William & Mary Law School faculty.
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WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL — This semester, William & Mary Law students will have an opportunity to study the origins of the nation’s opioid crisis and the ongoing efforts to stop the epidemic. A new course — Health, Crime, and the Opioid Crisis — will take an interdisciplinary look at a public health crisis that stands squarely…
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FORBES — There are a myriad of programs and options out there for student loan borrowers to potentially get some or all of their student loan debt forgiven. But these programs have complicated and sometimes confusing eligibility criteria. To make matters even more frustrating, some forms of student loan forgiveness are taxable events, while others are…
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JD SUPRA — Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we have special guest Steven Arango with us — a Marine officer and lawyer — to talk about how he combined his military career with the law, as well as offer some useful tips on getting a clerkship and being published.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Trustees have grown significantly more concerned about the future of higher education in the last year, according to new polling released today that points to financial sustainability and the prices students pay as top sources of anxiety. The data also seem to indicate college and university trustees will need to raise their level…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — American universities and colleges have announced new restrictions on travel to China in response to upgraded travel advisories from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of State related to the continued spread of coronavirus. The CDC expanded its travel advisory for China on Monday to recommend against nonessential travel to…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Students at several U.S. universities are tested for possible cases of a novel coronavirus. Experts weigh in on how colleges can prepare for the virus.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, academics discussed how to rethink the academy and how to separate it from the university.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The acquisition is the second of its kind for Belmont University in the past two years. Belmont, a growing private Christian institution that is set to host the third and final presidential debate of 2020, recently merged with the O’More College of Design and sold the college’s former campus. Both mergers speak to…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A panel including lawmakers involved in Congress’s last renewal of the Higher Education Act says that law is now obsolete, recommending a series of changes. In a series of recommendations released Wednesday, a panel of former lawmakers and education experts, chaired by the top Democrat and Republican on the House education committee that helped write…
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