Fordham Law Fashion Law Institute hosts host online panel
FORDHAM LAW NEWS — The webinar, entitled “Going Viral: Fashion and the Coronavirus,” was the Institute’s first-ever virtual event. An online stand-in for the Institute’s in-person annual symposium (rescheduled for September 2020), the panel addressed the wide range of challenges the fashion industry is facing in this unprecedented “new normal.” “
Read More about Fordham Law Fashion Law Institute hosts host online panelPenn Law professor Christopher Yoo discusses legal issues surrounding internet access
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science Christopher Yoo, recently shared his observations concerning the importance of internet connectivity during the pandemic with the Office of Communications.
Read More about Penn Law professor Christopher Yoo discusses legal issues surrounding internet accessPepperdine Law moves summer session online
PEPPERDINE CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAW — The Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University Rick J. Caruso School of Law will offer its premier academic program and popular training courses, which are usually held in Malibu, California, in a remote instruction format. This necessary shift creates an opportunity for law students and practicing professionals to…
Read More about Pepperdine Law moves summer session onlinePandemic creates more challenges for low-income students
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — The Covid-19 pandemic is revealing the breadth of education’s digital divide, separating those who have access to the internet from those who don’t. Yet in this spring of makeshift virtual instruction, many low-income students face challenges that go well beyond a lack of computers and connectivity.
Read More about Pandemic creates more challenges for low-income studentsProfessors should not try to replicate on-campus teaching during remote instruction
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — When colleges shut down in-person classes this spring, many instructors took pains to say that what was offered instead was not online learning. Other terms have been offered up — emergency online teaching, remote instruction — though probably none is quite right.
Read More about Professors should not try to replicate on-campus teaching during remote instructionABA moves annual meeting online
ABA JOURNAL — The 2020 ABA Annual Meeting is scheduled for July 29 to Aug. 4. In addition to nearly 500 meetings and events, it includes the convening of the board to discuss the association’s business matters and the House of Delegates to consider a number of policy proposals.
Read More about ABA moves annual meeting onlineCenter for Children, Law & Policy at University of Houston Law hosts session on youth detention advocacy
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Members of the Juvenile Division in the Harris County Public Defender’s Office said current detention conditions are not appropriate for the confinement of youthful offenders amid the spread of the coronavirus. Their remarks were made at the “Youth Advocacy in COVID-19” event on Tuesday presented by the University of…
Read More about Center for Children, Law & Policy at University of Houston Law hosts session on youth detention advocacyPenn Law Legal Practice Skills program moves online
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL — For University of Pennsylvania Carey Law faculty who teach in the Legal Practice Skills (LPS) program, the transition to online learning because of novel coronavirus precautions came as students were preparing to conduct oral arguments as part of the course.
Read More about Penn Law Legal Practice Skills program moves onlineLaw school moot court competitions reimagined online
THE NATIONAL JURIST — Technology is helping law students to continue to battle, argue, match wits, have at it. In a professional manner, mind you. A number of moot court competitions that used to be held in person are being held online in wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
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BBC — BBC Worklife spoke to Gianpiero Petriglieri, an associate professor at Insead, who explores sustainable learning and development in the workplace, and Marissa Shuffler, an associate professor at Clemson University, who studies workplace wellbeing and teamwork effectiveness, to hear their views.
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