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Showing posts with label University of Massachusetts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of Massachusetts. Show all posts
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Commencement speakers envision new beginnings

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Commencement at UMass Law yesterday featured a couple of great speeches. And I'm not an easy critic. Both speakers implicitly recognized...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Awards recognize law students Girouard, Riley

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A moment to celebrate two of my ace former students, Kaitlyn Girouard and Jack Riley , who took home awards from the UMass Law Student Bar ...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Student Shieh shakes up Brown with DOGE-like query, but universities hold fast in defense of admin 'bloat'

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University Hall and Van Wyckle Gates at Brown University Robert Barnett via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A conservative student journalist who r...
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 ...