Columbia Law remembers Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the anniversary of her death
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — “Justice Ginsburg holds a special place within the collective consciousness of the Columbia community, where she studied, taught, and inspired us for more than 60 years,” says Gillian Lester, Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law. “Though her death was a monumental loss for our community and our nation, her legacy…
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UGA TODAY — The late Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Stephen S. Goss is being memorialized with a scholarship bearing his name at the University of Georgia School of Law. More than 100 former classmates and friends have contributed to the Judge Steve Goss Scholarship Fund. The effort was spearheaded Marlan B. Wilbanks, who is the chair…
Read More about University of Georgia Law establishes scholarship named for Judge Stephen S. GossAALS Section on National Security Law co-sponsors call for nominations for the 2021 Mike Lewis Prize
LAWFARE — The Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin and Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law (ONU), in consultation with the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on National Security Law, have established the Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship. The prize honors Professor…
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UGA TODAY — The University of Georgia School of Law has named its iconic rotunda after its first Black graduate, Chester C. Davenport. A portrait of Davenport is being commissioned and will eventually hang in the space located at the main entrance to the law school.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW — James C. Hormel, ’58, a philanthropist and LGBTQ+ activist who served as the University of Chicago Law School’s first full-time dean of students and America’s first openly gay ambassador, died in San Francisco Friday morning. He was 88.
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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO LAW — Teresa A. Miller, a longtime UB faculty member and SUNY’s senior vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and chief diversity officer for the past three years, died Aug. 6 after battling cancer. She was 59.
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YALE DAILY NEWS — Donald Kagan, Sterling professor emeritus of classics and history, former dean of Yale College died on Aug. 6. He was 89 years old.
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — On June 8, University of Virginia professor emerita Mildred Robinson, received the Armstead Robinson Faculty Award, named for her late husband. The Black Faculty and Staff Employee Resource Group at UVA bestows the award to a faculty member who has contributed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and who has had a positive impact on…
Read More about University of Virginia Law professor Mildred Robinson receives Armstead Robinson Faculty Award named after late husbandIn Memoriam: Gail D. Hollister
FORDHAM LAW NEWS –The Fordham Law community is mourning the passing of Professor Gail D. Hollister ’70, longtime Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law and Murray Professor of Law Emerita. Hollister was a member of the Fordham Law faculty for 40 years—from 1977 until her retirement in 2017.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — University of Houston Law Center Professor Ronald Turner has passed away. He was 66 years old.
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