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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

[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...

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...

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 ...

I wrote in 2020 about the pay cuts foisted on faculty and staff at UMass Dartmouth.  We're a union shop, which is weird for university ...

UMass Dartmouth ( LGagnon CC BY-SA 3.0 ) The faculty union and university here at UMass Dartmouth, which includes UMass Law School , are...

My colleague Amy Vaughn-Thomas gave a terrific assignment to students in her Professional Responsibility (Legal Ethics) class this summer: ...

Holbrook Hall , Mount Ida College, Newton, Mass. John Phelan CC BY 3.0 An angle in a recent First Circuit decision deserves a mention ...

Most recently in June, I wrote about the faculty lawsuit against the University of Arkansas System to protect academic freedom, as the univ...

Rob Devine, former deputy police chief of Stoughton, Massachusetts, and a concerned parent. Father of two, 19-year police veteran, UM...

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has appointed six faculty to the rank of " Chancellor Professor ," effective today.  I...