American University Washington College of Law Professor Amanda Frost awarded American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — American University Washington College of Law Professor Amanda Frost has been selected as a recipient of the 2019 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. During the fellowship, Frost will be working on her forthcoming book, Unmaking Americans: A History of Citizenship Stripping in the United States.
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ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law alumnus David McCraw ’92, deputy general counsel of The New York Times, returned to Albany Law School on March 27, 2019, to discuss the themes in his new book, Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts.
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LAW.COM — The newly created Houston Legal Tech Association has announced the start of a new program for law school students to create original content regarding the intersection of law and technology.
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ABA JOURNAL — ABA President Bob Carlson sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday, urging members to support the Equality Act of 2019, which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
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LAW.COM — Responding to anecdotal evidence that new lawyers don’t understand the rules for practicing in New York courts, the New York State Bar Association is announcing today that it’s creating a task force to study whether the adoption of the Uniform Bar Exam is responsible.
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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER — Tens of thousands of public servants have applied to have their federal student loans forgiven through a temporary relief program run by the U.S. Education Department. Fewer than 300 have had success. Now, one of the lawmakers who championed the initiative wants to know what happened.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Hottest field for new faculty hires over the past year is health professions, as some 1,410 new assistant professors picked up jobs, according to new data from CUPA-HR. Full-time faculty members saw an overall median salary increase of about 1.7 percent over the past year.
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LAW.COM — A slew of women have been appointed law dean this semester, which will soon yield a record high for female leadership in the legal academy. The number of women occupying the dean suites has been on the rise for years, but this year’s new batch of leaders is particularly diverse in both gender and race.
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U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT — One of the key distinctions between college and law school is the way classes are taught, and legal education experts say aspiring lawyers need to mentally prepare themselves for the intensity of a typical first-year law class.
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LAW.COM — This article looks at the exodus of law school deans with a decade or more of experience under their belts with commentary from outgoing Chicago-Kent Law dean Harold Krent on how to last in the job.
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