Carly Griffith Hotvedt to serve as interim director of University of Arkansas Law Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative 

June 10, 2024

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS NEWS — After leading the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative as the organization’s executive director since 2020, Erin Parker, J.D., LL.M., has announced her resignation, effective as of Friday, May 31. Carly Griffith Hotvedt (Cherokee Nation) J.D., M.P.A., will serve as the organization’s interim executive director. 

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LSU Law adds professor Carlota Toledo to the faculty as Professor of Professional Practice and Director of Academic Success

June 10, 2024

LOUISIANA RECORD — With broad experience leading law students in the development of their academic and professional practice skills, as well as their preparation for the bar exam, Professor Carlota Toledo has joined the LSU Law faculty as a Professor of Professional Practice, effective May 1. 

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University of Minnesota Law selects William McGeveran as dean

May 29, 2024

MINNESOTA LAWYER — The University of Minnesota Law School has announced that William McGeveran will become its new dean, effective June 17. 

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Anna Carpenter named dean of Oklahoma

May 29, 2024

OU DAILY — OU announced the new dean of the College of Law, pending Board of Regents approval, on Thursday.

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University of New Mexico Law adds diversity visiting scholar Deleso Alford to the faculty

May 28, 2024

LOUISIANA RECORD — SULC Professor, Deleso Alford, was invited to the University of New Mexico as the 2024 UNM HSC Distinguished Diversity Visiting Scholar because of her research and work with “HER-stories”- the unique and particularized lived experiences of black women intersecting with health care and research.

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Duke University Law selects Jesse McCoy to be director of the Civil Justice Clinic 

May 21, 2024

DUKE LAW — Jesse McCoy, the clinic’s supervising attorney, will succeed retiring founding director Charles Holton. As an attorney at Legal Aid of North Carolina, McCoy was involved with the Civil Justice Clinic in its earliest days. He joined the Duke Law faculty in 2017. 

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Professor John Parsi to join LSU Law faculty 

May 21, 2024

NOLA — John Parsi will join the faculty of LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center in the fall semester. Parsi focuses on bodily autonomy at the intersection of health, science and technology law. He has administrative experience at academic and nonprofit organizations.

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Duke Law professor Charles R. Holton announces retirement 

May 21, 2024

DUKE LAW — After a 40 year career as a litigator, Holton returned to Duke Law School to launch the Civil Justice Clinic in partnership with Legal Aid of North Carolina.

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Aviva Abramovsky named dean of University of Idaho Law

May 16, 2024

DAILY FLY — Aviva Abramovsky has been named the new dean of the University of Idaho College of Law.

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S. Todd Brown named dean of University at Buffalo Law

May 8, 2024

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO NEWS CENTER — S. Todd Brown, a nationally renowned legal scholar in bankruptcy law and University at Buffalo faculty member since 2009, has been named dean of the School of Law.

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