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Showing posts with label legal education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal education. Show all posts
Friday, November 8, 2024

Law student vets collect food for hurricane victims

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VLA members UMass Law photo Massachusetts State Rep. Chris Markey (D-Bristol) presented a citation to the Veterans Law Association (VLA) a...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Law students speak to barriers to legal education

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Quinn, Spangler, D'Arcangelo, West, and Wood Presumed ©; used with permission. A gifted group of law students shared their personal expe...
Friday, November 1, 2024

New book spotlights freedom of press in film

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My friend and colleague Helen J. Knowles-Gardner , formerly a political science professor and now research director at the Institute for Fr...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Remembering Professor Frances S. Fendler

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Congregation B'nai Israel Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 At Congregation B'nai Israel in Little Rock, Arkan...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Wood wins Rappaport Fellowship

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Rebecca Wood BC Law Rebecca Wood, a survivor of my 1L torts classes, has won a prestigious Rappaport Fellowship in law and public policy. W...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

New book examines 'rise of classical legal thought' through experience of South Asia, British Empire

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Professor Chaudhry UMass Law Professor Faisal Chaudhry has published a book on history and the development of classical legal thought. Sout...
Friday, August 2, 2024

'Faculty are the least important people on a campus,' but don't worry; administrators will be all right

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Adaptation of Joe Loong via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 A recent item in The Chronicle of Higher Education ( subscription ), excerpted by Paul Ca...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Law class visits Constitutional Court of Portugal

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Law students and Dean Sam Panarella (left) visit the Constitutional Court. © RJ Peltz-Steele Since last week, ten talented U.S. law studen...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Global Law Classroom unites law students online

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Law faculty around the world are organizing the Global Law Classroom to debut in the fall semester of 2024. Global Law Classroom (GLC) bring...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

My writing is 'not very good,' and other reasons you can't get ahead in our not-really-a meritocracy

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Pxhere CC0 A purported mentor once told me that probably I couldn't find a job in academics because my "writing is not very good.&...
Friday, April 12, 2024

UMass Law inaugurates comparative law study abroad

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UMass Law School has announced a two-week study abroad program in Lisbon, Portugal, in partnership with Universidade Católica Portuguesa (...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Free torts textbook ready for academic year 2024-25

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TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law is complete and revised for the coming academic year 2024-25. The two-volume textbook is posted for fr...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Florida A&M moves to fire Latina law prof who spoke on public concern; Hispanic law students resist

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You may review and sign on to a letter of the FAMU Hispanic American Law Student Association opposing Reyes's termination here.   Prof. ...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

ABA adopts academic freedom standard, but 'Crossroads' convo shows, not everybody gets it

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Is the American Bar Association (ABA) "Doing Enough to Promote Viewpoint Diversity?," panelists were asked at the ABA Midyear Meet...