Lewis & Clark Law Center for Business Law and Innovation hosts workshop
LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Center for Business Law and Innovation (CBLI) at Lewis and Clark Law School hosted its first Xperiential workshop on October 19 with Trevor Jones and Michael Labbee from Intel and luncheon speaker Shawn Filippi ’99 from NW Natural.
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TULANE HULLABALOO — Last night, 1,334 students and faculty attended the first event in the Tulane’s Presidential Speaker Series featuring Sonia Sotomayor, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Sotomayor has served on the Supreme Court for 10 years and is the first Latinx justice to be appointed. Justice Sotomayor discussed her book “Just…
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VOX RECODE — Algorithms are grading student essays across the country. So can artificial intelligence really teach us to write better? The reason it’s so hard to figure out who’s affected by AI grading is because there’s not just one program that’s being used. There are a bunch of different algorithms, made by a bunch of different…
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Excess of Democracy (By Derek Muller) — Professor Muller (Pepperdine Law) looks at the Supreme Court clerks class of 2009 and lists where the former clerks are now employed.
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The Faculty Lounge (By Brian Gallini) — Professor Gallini (University of Arkansas Law) announces an upcoming series of blog posts on teaching criminal procedure through high-profile cases highlighted in “true crime” documentaries and podcasts. He discusses the value of teaching criminal procedure through these familiar cases.
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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW — On Wednesday, Oct. 2, author and Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward, along with Chair of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency Michael Horowitz, discussed the significance of federal oversight. The event was hosted in celebration of the launch of American University Washington College of Law’s newest student publication, oversightproject.org, which…
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UBNOW — The Niagara River — and pro bono work by UB law students — gain national prominence this week when the river and its corridor become a Wetland of International Importance and part of the Ramsar Convention. Thirty-three students enrolled in the School of Law’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic invested more than 1,450 pro bono hours…
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THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW — The Gonzaga University School of Law is launching a new mentorship program designed to pair a recent graduate interested in opening a solo practice with an experienced attorney. The Solo Practice Incubator has a focus on elder law because the stipends the mentor and mentee will receive are funded by Aging and Long-Term Care…
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SANTA CLARA LAW — Michelle Oberman has been selected as an Emerging Ethics Fellow by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Her term will be for the 2020 – 2021 school year.
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