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Showing posts with label legal education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal education. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Law students test-screen 'actual malice' documentary

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Yesterday, my students in Comparative Law and in Torts got to be test-screen audiences for  American Libel , a new documentary written and p...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Belgian scholar finds fault on both sides of Atlantic, charts midway course for U.S.-EU data privacy

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KU Leuven Profs. Jan Wouters ,  Evelyne Terryn , and  Peggy Valcke ;  Sylvia Lissens ; me; KU Leuven Prof. Marieke Wyckaert , dissertation c...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Podcast features legal ed collab in 13 countries

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On October 1, colleagues and I will start a new eight-week run of the Global Law Classroom (GLC), and program leader Professor Melanie Reid ...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Global collab promotes teaching law without borders

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Peltz-Steele, Lewinbuk, Rott-Pietrzyk, Kim, Rigó © Used with permission Collaborators and I had the privilege of discussing the Global Law C...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Updated 'TORTZ' features latest on Amazon liability, Texas 2-step, DaBaby defamation foes, much more

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New 2025 editions  of TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law , volumes 1 and 2 are posted and ready for academic year 2025-26. Two-volume TORTZ...
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 ...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Law students Costa, Osuagwu talk first 100 days

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Costa & Osuagwu ( WGBH ) Thrilled to see two of my star 1Ls/rising 2Ls, Cameron Costa and BJ Osuagwu , just finishing Torts II, represe...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Bar comprises haves, have nots; ABA chooses haves

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Yesterday I submitted the following open letter to the leadership of the International Law Section ( ILS ) of the American Bar Association (...
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...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Comparative law research reaches prisoner rights; women's rights; tech patents; internet, drug reg

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Law Offices of James L. Arrasmith CC BY-NC 4.0 In fall 2024, I had the privilege of teaching Comparative Law for the sixth time. For my tim...