Fordham Law hosts chancellor Kathaleen McCormick for lecture on corporate, securities, and financial law
FORDHAM LAW — On March 6, the Corporate Law Center welcomed the Honorable Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, to campus to present the 20th Annual Albert A. DeStefano Lecture on Corporate, Securities, and Financial Law.
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FORDHAM LAW — For the first time since the pandemic, the Center for Judicial Events & Clerkships hosted its Judicial Day in Residence program. On March 1, the CJEC welcomed 11 judges from the Southern District of New York for a day-long visit. The Judicial Day in Residence program was developed to deepen the connection…
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FORDHAM LAW — Five Fordham Law students—Justin Chaljub, Raissa Ebeh, Hira Mustafa, Maya Rodgers, and Cristian Vega — were selected as fellowship recipients for the 2023 New York City Bar Association Diversity Fellowship Program. The fellowship provides first-year law students from underrepresented populations within the legal profession the chance to spend a summer in one…
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FORDHAM LAW — Fordham Law’s Institute on Religion Law and Lawyer’s Work and Consulus, a global innovation by design firm, have signed a strategic partnership agreement to shape a new generation of lawyers who are value-driven, creative, and have the confidence to embrace diversity among cultures and faith beliefs to be resilient in a complex…
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FORDHAM LAW — Jordana Confino, Assistant Dean of Professionalism, teaches Peer Mentoring and Leadership, and Positive Lawyering at Fordham University. In our latest podcast, Jordana shares the importance of positive psychology with examples of discussions she has had with her students to demonstrate how important it is for law students and lawyers to implement it…
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HARVARD LAW — Psychology professor B.J. Casey and attorney Marsha Levick discussed scientific and legal perspectives on criminally trying children as adults at a Harvard Law School talk Tuesday. Casey, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, and Levick, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, examined the ethics of U.S. laws that permit or require…
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HARVARD LAW — The Harvard Law School Environmental Law Society presented Robert D. Bullard with the Horizon Award in an award ceremony Tuesday evening. Bullard is a professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University and director of the school’s Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice. An award-winning author of 18…
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HARVARD LAW — Harvard Law School announced that actress Michelle Yeoh will be its 2023 Class Day speaker. The Class Day ceremony will be held on May 24. According to a press release, the Everything Everywhere All at Once star’ father was a lawyer, which made the invitation meaningful.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The University of Bologna is providing funding to the University of Houston Law Center to co-host “Sustainability Week” in Bologna, Italy. The grant-funded project will facilitate collaborative research on sustainability between the two universities. The project is supported by the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the universities and will…
Read More about Funding to University of Houston Law Center to help support Sustainability Week program in ItalyMarquette Law Water Law and Policy Initiative to host Wisconsin state representative Gwen Moore for discussion of Wisconsin’s lead pipe program
MARQUETTE LAW — Marquette University Law School will host U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore for a special conversation, “Water Law: A Federal Perspective on Wisconsin’s Lead Pipe Problem,” on Wednesday, April 5, at 12:15 p.m. at Eckstein Hall, 1215 W. Michigan St. The conversation with Moore will explore the problem of lead service lines in Wisconsin’s…
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