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Showing posts with label University of Massachusetts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of Massachusetts. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

House cap of 435 is unconstitutional, prof argues

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My colleague Professor Anoo Vyas has published Why Capping the House at 435 is Unconstitutional in the Penn State Law Review . Here is the...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Roberts explains 'real crisis' of American government

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Flyer by RJ Peltz-Steele (with AI art) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 At UMass Law last week, Alasdair S. Roberts , UMass Amherst professor of public polic...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Christian law students hear advice on grounding oneself in faith amid stresses of law practice

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🍀 St. Patrick's Day Zoom . RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The newly constituted student Christian Legal Society at UMass Law School he...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Researcher seeks to ease persistent anticompetitive constraints on indie films in online environment

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Yaleth Calderon , a film school graduate and candidate for the California bar, has published a law review note on antitrust, online technolo...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Mother of slain scholar publishes his account of academic workplace mobbing at UMass (Amherst)

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At the inaugural Niagara Conference on Workplace Mobbing at Niagara University last summer , easily the most moving and haunting presentati...
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...
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, 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 (...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Hart, legislative counsel, talks public service career

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Attorney Kevin Hart speaks to students today, Feb. 20, at UMass Law School about his career path in public service in Massachusetts state g...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Plaintiff drops privacy suit that stretched to claim against UMass Medical in nationwide data breach

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UMass Chan Medical School Mass. Office of Travel & Tourism via Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0 Until six days ago, the University of Massachusetts ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Educator, law student earns town board appointment

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Sullivan in Weymouth Monday. Used with permission. A student in my first-year Torts class was appointed this week to the Board of Health of ...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

'Academia is the fifth circle of hell'

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Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 4.0     [A]cademia is the fifth circle of hell. It goes babies, musicals, magic, kale, academia.  —Paul ( Harrison Fo...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

OER saves students money, but printing is too pricey

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Markus Büsges (leomaria design) für Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Open educational resources (OER) are all the rage in highe...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Students join labor demands for living wage at RISD

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(UPDATE, April 18: Labor and RISD reached a tentative agreement, Wazlavek tweeted last night.) The Rhode Island School of Design —famous al...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Oh brings dispute resolution skills to UCLA

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Dean Oh selfie in his virtual office (© Hyun C. Oh, licensed exclusively) Hyun Cheol Oh , my friend and former student, has joined the highe...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Lawsuit alleges excessive force against federal immigration detainees held near public law school

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⚠ Warning: indecent language. Latino detainees of the Bristol County House of Corrections, which is located just three-quarters of a mile ...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

UMass Law Federalist Society talks speech, SCOTUS

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Regular blog readers will soon recognize that I am playing catch-up, sharing items that I stockpiled for the better part of the spring semes...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Shannon McMahon for Bristol County, Mass., DA

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[UPDATE, Sept. 7, 2022.] With 90% reporting, the N.Y. Times lists Quinn prevailing with 65% of the vote to McMahon's 35%. This result is...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

Law student's diligence helps abandoned child reach win in immigration court, pathway to U.S. residency

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Belatedly, but aptly for the holiday, with permission of the UMass Law Immigration Clinic and the student, I am proud to share the news that...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

UMass Lowell stands with First Amendment, for now, in row over student tied to neo-Nazi hate group

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Weed Hall at UMass Lowell ( photo by Ktr101 CC BY-SA 3.0 ) UMass Lowell seems, so far, to be taking a principled position in a controversy ...