University of Virginia Law students Cameron Duncan and David Goldman honored by school for community service
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — 3L students A. Cameron Duncan and David Goldman are this year’s recipients of the University of Virginia School of Law’s Rosenbloom Award, which honors students with a strong academic record who have significantly enhanced the academic experience of other law students by volunteering support and assistance.
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VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY WIDGER SCHOOL OF LAW — Villanova Law Professor Caitlin Barry teaches Race and the Law, which helps students to develop a better understanding of the role of law in its social context and to identify how the law may be used to institutionalize, or challenge, racial injustice.
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LAW.COM — Texas Tech University School of Law’s most recent initiative is unique: It created a “wellness room” for students to decompress, de-stress, and rejuvenate for 30 minutes to one hour—no studying allowed.
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Texas A&M Law Professor Bill Henning has been appointed by the President of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) to serve as a member of a newly formed ULC and ALI Joint Study Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies.
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PITTWIRE — Pitt Law librarian Linda Tashbook (SCI ’87G, LAW ’96) is combining her two loves — librarianship and the law — to empower millions of people who have a loved one with mental illness. Her new book offers practical advice that Tashbook has given to community members throughout the years.
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law School’s Applied Mediation Clinic, led by Professor Michael Jenuwine, gives students practical experience both in and out of the classroom, preparing them to enter the legal profession and work with clients.
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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL — Notre Dame Law Professor Paolo Carozza will help lead a University of Notre Dame initiative to study issues emerging from the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. Carozza will serve on a six-member steering committee that will solicit proposals for research addressing the crisis.
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THE OBSERVER — Notre Dame’s Law School is hosting a symposium this Friday and Saturday commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, a 100-day period where an estimated 800,000 innocent Rwandans were slaughtered by their fellow citizens over ethnic differences.
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NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL — The family of New York Law School graduate Jay S. Watnick ’59 has honored his memory with a profoundly generous $1 million gift in support of student scholarships. The gift, made by his wife, Marianna Watnick, and the Watnick family, establishes the Marianna and Jay S. Watnick ’59 Scholarship Fund.
Read More about Gift to New York Law School to support student scholarshipsUniversity of Missouri Law community supports Dean Lyrissa Lidsky through cancer treatment
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN — Missouri Law Dean Lyrissa Lidsky strode into her First Amendment class in Hulston Hall, wearing a black-and-gold scarf around her head. She exuded energy and passion for her topic that Tuesday: commercial speech. Lidsky has continued to teach while undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. She became the dean in 2017.
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