Mitchell Hamline Law professor Joelle Lester named executive director of Public Health Law Center

January 19, 2023

MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — The Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law is pleased to announce the hiring of Joelle Lester as its next executive director. For the past five years, Lester has served as the center’s director of commercial tobacco control programs. 

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University of Akron Law adds new members to the faculty

January 19, 2023

AKRON LEGAL NEWS — The University of Akron School of Law makes changes to its faculty roster.Julie Cortes joins the staff as director of the Small Entrepreneur and Economic Development (SEED) clinic and C. Blake McDowell Jr. Professor of Law Willa Gibson has been appointed associate dean of academic excellence.

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Pace Law adds Miriam E. Rocah, Caesar Lopez and Felipe Paez to the faculty

January 19, 2023

PACE UNIVERSITY — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that three new members have joined its Board of Visitors. The new members include Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. “Mimi” Rocah, two distinguished Haub Law alumni, Caesar Lopez ’12, and Felipe Paez ’96.

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Frederick G. Slabach named dean of University of Mississippi Law

January 18, 2023

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI LAW — Frederick G. Slabach has been chosen as the new dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law following a national search. Slabach will join the university July 1, pending approval by the board of trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning.

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UC Irvine Law student Claire Foster honored for assisting voter on election day

January 17, 2023

UC IRVINE LAW — Disability Rights California presented Claire Foster, a first-year student at University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law), with the inaugural award for Outstanding Service to Voters with Disabilities for her work in helping a voter complete voter registration and cast her vote on Election Day in November 2022.

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Duke Law Start-Up Ventures Clinic adds legal tech expert Michael Murphy

December 12, 2022

DUKE LAW — Michael Murphy, a legal educator with a wide range of practice experience, will join Duke Law in January as clinical professor of law and supervising attorney of the Start-Up Ventures Clinic. Murphy is clinical supervisor and lecturer in law of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School,

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Pace Law names inaugural fellow and faculty director of Sustainable Business Law Hub

December 5, 2022

PACE UNIVERSITY ELISABETH HAUB SCHOOL OF LAW — The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is proud to announce that Barbara Ballan has been named the inaugural LLM Sustainable Business Law Fellow of Haub Law’s newly launched Sustainable Business Law Hub. An expert in sustainable business law, Professor Jason Czarnezki was named as the

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Marquette Law appoints judge Mary Triggiano as the director of the Center of Restorative Justice

December 5, 2022

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY — Hon. Mary E. Triggiano, chief judge for the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, has been named director of Marquette University Law School’s Andrew Center for Restorative Justice, Marquette President Michael R. Lovell announced today. Triggiano, who has served as a circuit court judge in Milwaukee County since 2004, will step down from the

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University of Akron Law appoints Jonathan Moore and Sean Steward as full-time faculty

December 5, 2022

THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — The University of Akron School of Law has announced the appointments of Jonathan Moore and Sean Steward to the full-time faculty. Moore, who joined the Akron Law faculty in 2021 as a visiting assistant professor, is now a full-time assistant professor. He will continue to teach Legal Analysis, Research & Writing courses.

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University of Miami Law names Albert Jan van den Berg distinguished faculty co-chair of postgraduate law program

December 5, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI — Albert Jan van den Berg, who has been associated with and teaching in Miami Law’s White & Case International Arbitration LL.M. for a decade, has recently been named Distinguished Faculty Co-Chair of the program. Van den Berg is a highly distinguished academic, counsel, and arbitrator in the international arbitration field and handles international

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