University of Virginia Law promotes six faculty members

June 20, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW — Six faculty members have been promoted by the University of Virginia School of Law. The UVA Board of Visitors approved the promotions on June 8.

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Penn Law Toll Public Interest Center hires new director of Social Justice Programs

June 20, 2018

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN — Penn Law’s Toll Public Interest Center has hired Emily R. Sutcliffe, a graduate student who is earning her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Penn, for the new position of Director of Social Justice Programs.

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Vermont Law Director David Mears leaving Environmental Law Center

June 20, 2018

SEVEN DAYS — Former state environmental conservation commissioner David Mears is leaving his post as director of the Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center effective at the end of June.

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Penn State Dickinson Law appoints distinguished cyber and privacy law scholar

June 1, 2018

PENN STATE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW — Penn State’s Dickinson Law and the Penn State Institute for CyberScience (ICS) announce their joint appointment of Anne Toomey McKenna as a distinguished scholar of cyber law and policy and professor in practice.

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American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Law and Government welcomes new senior affiliates

June 1, 2018

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW — American University Washington College of Law is pleased to announce the appointment of three Senior Affiliates to the Program on Law and Government, beginning in the Fall semester. Louis Caldera, Bettina Poirier, and Steven Shapiro will join the Program in August

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Notre Dame Law professors Barbara Fick and Douglass Cassel announce retirements

May 30, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF LAW — Two Notre Dame Law professors announced their retirements at the Law School’s 2018 commencement ceremony: Professor and labor law expert Barbara J. Fick and Professor and human rights law expert Douglass Cassel.  

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Notre Dame Professor Stephen Yelderman earns tenure

May 30, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF LAW — Stephen Yelderman has been granted tenure as a professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. Yelderman joined the faculty in 2013 and has taught patent law, copyright, remedies, and introductory intellectual property.

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Gregg Leslie named inaugural executive director of ASU Law’s First Amendment Clinic

May 30, 2018

LONGVIEW NEWS-JOURNAL — Gregg Leslie, an expert in media law, has been named the inaugural executive director of the First Amendment Legal Clinic at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

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Arkansas Law Professor Annie Smith named Director of Pro Bono and Community Engagement

May 30, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — University of Arkansas Law Professor Annie Smith has been named the director of pro bono and community engagement. She assumes the post from its inaugural director Cynthia Nance, dean emeritus and the Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law, who recently completed her two-year tenure.

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Notre Dame Law professor elected as fellow of the Hastings Center

May 21, 2018

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF LAW — Notre Dame Law Professor O. Carter Snead, the William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, has been elected as a Fellow of the Hastings Center, the world’s first and most prestigious bioethics research institute.

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