Brooklyn Law hosts federal judges for program with law students
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Twenty-two federal judges from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York took part in EDNY Day at Brooklyn Law School on Thursday, Oct. 17. The judges, who serve as Article III judges, magistrate judges, and bankruptcy judges, visited nine classes throughout the day with 400 students, spoke at lunchtime…
Read More about Brooklyn Law hosts federal judges for program with law studentsCase Western Reserve Law co-dean Michael Scharf receives national book award
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — Dean Michael Scharf and his co-author Professor Milena Sterio of CSU were the recipients of the Association Internationale de Droit Penal’s 2019 Book of the Year Award for “The Legacy of Ad Hoc Tribunals in International Criminal Law” (2019, Cambridge).
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law co-dean Michael Scharf receives national book awardCase Western Reserve Law clinic aids community organization in applying for non-profit status
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — With help from the CWRU Community Development Clinic, she launched a nonprofit business while playing a key role in revitalizing a Cleveland neighborhood. Today, with help from the CWRU Law Community Development Clinic, McGee and Fegen-Herdman are ready to move out from under the wing of the SDSDC and become their…
Read More about Case Western Reserve Law clinic aids community organization in applying for non-profit statusU.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at UC Berkeley Law
BERKELEY LAW — Monday afternoon, before a packed house of Berkeley Law students, faculty, and staff at Zellerbach Hall, Ginsburg described meeting Kay at a 1971 conference on women in the law. “The rest of that decade, Herma was my best and closest working colleague,” she said. The justice received spirited standing ovations before and after the…
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UCI LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is pleased to announce that Michele Bratcher Goodwin, UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Law, will deliver the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. lecture on Constitutional Law at UC Davis. Professor Goodwin’s lecture “Policing The Womb: The Penal Risks of Pregnancy,” will take place on Wednesday,…
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UCI LAW — L. Song Richardson, Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) will be listed and honored in the 2019 “OC 500” issue of the Orange County Business Journal, which recognizes influential leaders and opinion shapers in Orange County. The fourth annual issue of the “OC…
Read More about UC Irvine Law dean L. Song Richardson honored by Orange County Business JournalUC Irvine Law professor Dalié Jiménez elected to American Law Institute
UCI LAW — The American Law Institute, a prestigious body of legal scholars and practitioners, elected UCI Law Professor Dalié Jiménez to its membership. Her recent scholarship has focused on student loans and bankruptcy, the effects of perpetual consumer debts, re-designing self-help materials to increase access to justice, and the debt collection system.
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UCLA NEWSROOM — The Patricia W. Mitchell Trusts, which earlier this year donated $20 million to UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, have given $3 million to the law school. The trusts were established by Patricia Mitchell, the late wife of longtime Columbia Pictures executive John H. Mitchell. Because of the infusion of funds and expansion of the…
Read More about Gift to UCLA Law to support entertainment and media law programCharleston Law dean Andy Abrams will step down in May 2020
MOULTRIE NEWS — Longtime Charleston School of Law dean Andy Abrams will retire from his leadership position at the end of the academic year in May 2020, the school announced Monday. He will remain on the faculty as as dean emeritus and will return to the classroom and resume his teaching on a full-time basis as…
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CPR NEWS — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was in Boulder Tuesday for a packed fireside chat-style lecture, where she amusingly reflected on her career and spoke about how politics come into play on the court.
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