Harvard Law welcomes Premal Dharia as executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration

May 12, 2021

HARVARD LAW TODAY — Premal Dharia, the founder and director of the Defender Impact Initiative, is joining Harvard Law School as the inaugural executive director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration. Formerly a public defender and civil rights attorney, Dharia has spent the last two decades fighting against injustice in the criminal system. She will

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Lewis & Clark Law’s Center for Animal Law Studies welcomes Kathryn Schultz as staff attorney

May 12, 2021

LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School is home to the world’s first and only legal clinic dedicated to the legal protections and rights of farmed animals—the Animal Law Litigation Clinic. Now, CALS will go even further in its mission through the expansion of its dedicated ALLC

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University of South Carolina Law professor Susan Kuo named associate dean for academic affairs

May 12, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Susan Kuo, the Class of 1969 Chair for Teaching Excellence at the University of South Carolina School of Law was named associate dean for academic affairs in November. She had served in this role on an interim basis since July 2020. 

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UCLA School of Law professors Kimberly Clausing and Máximo Langer receive faculty chair appointments

May 12, 2021

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW — UCLA School of Law professors Kimberly Clausing and Máximo Langer have received faculty chair appointments in recognition of their substantial contributions to the study and teaching of tax law and policy and international criminal law and procedure.

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Arizona State University Law to host World Economic Forum Hoffmann Fellow Kevin Doxzen

May 12, 2021

ASU SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW — Thunderbird School of Global Management and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University are pleased to host Kevin Doxzen as a recipient of the World Economic Forum’s Hoffmann Fellowship for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which offers early-career academics the opportunity to work at

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University of Minnesota Law professor Linus Chan appointed Vaughan G. Papke Research Scholar

May 12, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL — Associate Clinical Professor of Law Linus Chan has been appointed the Law School’s Vaughan G. Papke Research Scholar. The Papke Research Scholar title is intended to recognize and celebrate important scholarly contributions by the Law School’s clinical law faculty who have and continue to produce important and substantial scholarship. Chan’s appointment

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Albany Law professor Christian Sundquist named Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship

May 12, 2021

ALBANY LAW SCHOOL — Albany Law School is excited to announce that Professor Christian Sundquist has been named Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship. Sundquist has been a professor with the law school since 2006 and served as the Director of Faculty Research and Scholarship since 2015.

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Joseph Landau and Clare Huntington named to senior leadership positions

May 10, 2021

FORDHAM LAW NEWS — Professor Landau, an expert in the fields of civil and constitutional procedure, will succeed Linda Sugin as associate dean for academic affairs. Professor Huntington will work with Dean Diller and Professor Landau to accomplish the major components of the Law School’s strategic plan and ensure the institution adapts to long-term changes from

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David S Law joins faculty at University of Virginia School of Law

May 10, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — David S. Law, a scholar of public law who has authored high-profile work on courts and constitutions, will join the University of Virginia School of Law in the fall. Dean Risa Goluboff heralded Law as “a world expert on comparative constitutional law and the law of East Asia.”

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SLU LAW welcomes three professors of practice

May 10, 2021

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Saint Louis University School of Law is pleased to announce the addition of three accomplished attorneys as professors of practice. Melvin Kennedy, Judge Donald Wilkerson and Abigail Willie will serve as resources for students and faculty members alike and teach courses relevant to their respective areas of expertise.

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