UC Davis Law professor Angela Harris named research chair by American Bar Foundation
UC DAVIS LAW — Professor Emerita Angela P. Harris has been named the American Bar Foundation 2019-20 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law. The William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law leads empirical and interdisciplinary research at the ABF on law and legal processes related to issues of diversity and inequality
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BAYLOR LAW — Baylor Law’s Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition is an invitation-only mock trial tournament that is one of the nation’s most prestigious, and intense, competitions. At the special 10-year anniversary event, dubbed Top Gun X, the best advocates from 16 trial advocacy schools will compete
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CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW — Anat Alon-Beck has accepted the offer to join Case Western Reserve University School of Law as Assistant Professor of Law on the tenure track
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — Arkansas Law 3L student Katie Rose Martin has bee named a Public Policy Fellow from the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation. Martin will be mentored by Arkansas Law alumnus and former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater ’80, who is a partner of Squire Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C.
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — Donald Cobb ’18 went from Stuttgart, Germany, where the U.S. Army medic had just retired from the military to being an incoming 1L law student at SIU Law. Three years later, Cobb, of Scott City, M.O., was chosen as Class of 2018 speaker at commencement exercises.
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LIBERTY LAW — Liberty University School of Law hosted the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims on Thursday, February 21, 2019, in the law school’s Supreme Courtroom with over 250 in attendance.
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LAW.COM — A ban on consensual romantic relationships between judges and their employees, and continued investigation and public report of judges accused of sexual misconduct even if they retire or resign were among proposals offered Tuesday during a hearing on the federal judiciary
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DUKE CHRONICLE — Jennifer Caplan—assistant director for professional development programming and advising for Duke Law School—began First Generation Professionals to combat the disadvantage of Law School students who are the first in their families to graduate from college.
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DAILY CAMERA — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is set to hold hearings at the University of Colorado this week, the first time the hearings have been held in the U.S. outside of Washington, D.C.
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NEW YORK TIMES — More than 2,400 law school professors from schools across the country signed their name to a letter for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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