A profile on UC Law San Francisco Plaintiff’s Law Association president Catherine Cawley
UC LAW SAN FRANCISCO — UC Law San Francisco is home to dozens of student organizations that help law students connect with like-minded peers and network for their future careers. One of these many groups is the Plaintiffs’ Law Association. Meet Plaintiffs’ Law Association President Catherine Cawley and hear in her own words what’s great…
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Empirical Legal Studies (by Michael Heise) — Professor Heise (Cornell Law) shares tips on using UCLA’s statistical consulting site as a resource for empirical legal studies.
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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Professor Benjamin Zipursky, James H. Quinn Chair in Legal Ethics, will receive this year’s William L. Prosser Award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Torts & Compensation Systems. The award recognizes the significant contributions of law teachers in scholarship, teaching, and service in the torts…
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NYU LAW — Mitchell Engler ’90 LLM ’91, professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, passed away on November 4 at age 58. An editor of the NYU Law Review and the Tax Law Review, Engler was a longtime adjunct professor at the Law School and a former acting assistant professor. Engler’s scholarship centered on tax…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Two new studies on gender bias in student evaluations of teaching look at the phenomenon from fresh—and troubling—angles. One study surveyed students at the beginning of the semester and after their first exam and found that female instructors faced more backlash for grades given than did male instructors.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new study suggests that students choose to stop out of college and others choose not to enroll in the first place because of a range of “psychographics,” or psychological factors, including doubts about the financial returns of a college education and an awareness of other career training options outside traditional…
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BC LAW — Boston College Law School has launched a new Early Decision admissions program to provide an expedited review, with special consideration that BC Law is the applicant’s first choice.
Read More about Boston College Law implements early decision admission programBrooklyn Law fellows in health law and family law present research
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL — Health Law & Policy Fellows and Marsha Garrison Family Law & Policy Fellows presented the findings of their major research projects and resulting papers to the Law School community and friends on April 8. The centerpiece of the year-long fellowships, these research projects focus on a legal or policy issue in their…
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GOODWIN LAW –Goodwin’s 2L Diversity Fellowship Program for the 2023 Summer Associate class is open for applications. The Diversity Fellowships provide second-year law students from historically excluded groups with the opportunity to earn a position in Goodwin’s 2023 Summer Associate program, in addition to receiving an award of $30,000. Finalists for the 2L Fellowship will be…
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TaxProf Blog (by Paul Caron) — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares a University of Pittsburgh Law Review Online article by Jonathan Todres (Georgia State University Law) calling for professors to consider the work-life balance of their students to combat substance abuse and mental health issues.
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