Western New England Law selects professor Sudha Setty as Dean
BUSINESSWEST — Starting in July, Sudha Setty will bring that spirit of advocacy to her new role as dean of the Western New England University (WNEU) School of Law after 12 years as a professor there. She will succeed Eric Gouvin, who is returning to the WNEU faculty after a five-year stint as dean.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Eight students in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law put the books aside and spent two weeks in Myanmar, also known as Burma, over winter break to study the country’s nascent government in person.
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DESERET NEWS — Wisconsin defense attorney Dean Strang, a central figure in the hit Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer,” told S.J. Quinney College of Law students Thursday that his faith in the criminal justice system is steadfast.
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW — University of Tennessee College of Law Professor Maurice Stucke shared that Facebook’s preeminent status as an unchecked harvester of user data isn’t likely to change unless U.S. officials commit to stricter regulation and enforcement U.S. antitrust laws last month in an article published by the Harvard Business Review.
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW — The University of Tennessee College of Law students, faculty, and staff began mobilizing Friday to offer assistance to suspected illegal immigrants detained in Grainger County by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW — Syracuse University College of Law is now accepting applications for its groundbreaking online J.D. program through the Law School Admission Council (LSAC). The new program—called JDinteractive—is the first fully interactive online J.D. program to be accredited by the American Bar Association.
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ABA JOURNAL — With technologists, entrepreneurs and lawyers gathered, the Stanford Law School CodeX FutureLaw conference attempted to break down silos yesterday. But, with a primarily legal audience, that is no small feat, according to ABA president Hilarie Bass.
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RAFU SHIMPO — Dennis Yokoyama, Japanese American Bar Association of Greater Los Angeles board member and past president, has been chosen to receive the Southwestern Student Bar Association’s 2017-18 Excellence in Teaching Award for First-Year Professor.
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SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY DEDMAN SCHOOL OF LAW — SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas designated the last week of March as Wellness Week at the school and put together a series of events to help students maintain a balanced life and cope with law school stressors in a healthy way.
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SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW HOUSTON — South Texas College of Law Houston (STCL Houston) students earned two preeminent national honors last week alone – further establishing the 95-year-old law school as the best advocacy school in the nation and among the country’s most preeminent legal research and writing schools.
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