Podcast: UC Davis Law professor Mary Ziegler discusses Dobbs v. Jackson

September 27, 2022

UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF LAW — UC Davis Law Professor Mary Ziegler provides perspective on the historic reversal of Roe v. Wade by discussing how we got here, what happened and what the future will look like. Professor Ziegler says that the Supreme Court’s ruling was in effect an attempt to change American democracy and…

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UC Irvine Law launches Afghanistan Human Rights Project

September 27, 2022

THE NATIONAL JURIST — The University of California, Irvine School of Law has launched the Afghanistan Human Rights Project through its International Justice Clinic. Students in the program will advocate for action to address Afghanistan’s human rights situation.

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Case Western Reserve Law opens Academy for Inclusive Leadership Development

September 27, 2022

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — To incorporate training on structural bias and anti-racism in the curriculum—and the workplace—the Case Western Reserve University School of Law is launching an Academy for Inclusive Leadership Development (AILD). The AILD consists of specialized readings, training tools, presentations, discussions, exercises and simulations—as well as opportunities for reflection and…

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Chapman Law professor Michael Bazyler leads project assisting Ukranian refugees

September 27, 2022

THE NATIONAL JURIST — Law students from Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law, alongside Professor Michael Bazyler, have created a growing project to assist with the refugee crisis that has come from the ongoing war in Ukraine.

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University of Chicago Law professor Martha Nussbaum recognized for work in moral philosophy

September 27, 2022

CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN — Three Americans, including University of Chicago law and music professors, were among winners of this year’s Balzan Prize, announced Monday, for their work in the fields of moral philosophy, musicology and biotechnology. Martha Nussbaum, a philosopher and scholar at the University of Chicago, won for “her transformative reconception of the…

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University of Cincinnati Law celebrates move to new building following renovations

September 26, 2022

CINCINNATI.COM — The University of Cincinnati College of Law has taken up a new residence on Martin Luther King Drive, at the site of the university’s old business school building. Officials hosted a grand opening for the law school on Monday, now that the $45.6 million renovation project is complete.

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UConn Law partners with Disability Rights Connecticut to establish Disability Rights Clinic

September 26, 2022

UCONN TODAY –The UConn School of Law has joined forces with Disability Rights Connecticut to offer a clinic providing legal advocacy for people with disabilities.

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Cornell Law portrait honors first Black graduate of the school

September 26, 2022

CORNELL CHRONICLE –In 1854, George Washington Fields was born into enslavement on a Virginia plantation. At age 36, he graduated as a member of the first class of Cornell Law School, the school’s first Black graduate and the only formerly enslaved person to graduate from Cornell. The Law School installed a portrait of Fields in…

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George Washington Law professor Sean D. Murphy teaches the law of the sea in Tanzania

September 26, 2022

GW LAW — GW Law’s Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law, Sean D. Murphy, spent the last week of the summer teaching on the law of the sea in Arusha, Tanzania, at the Summer Academy on the Continental Shelf. The Academy, which was jointly organized by the African Institute of International Law and the University of…

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Gift to University of Hawai’i Law to support launch of Dean’s Innovation Fund

September 26, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I NEWS — University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumnus and philanthropist businessman Jay H. Shidler has donated $1 million in cash to start the Dean’s Innovation Fund to the William S. Richardson School of Law. The fund will allow UH law school Dean Camille Nelson to bring into legal education the type of…

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