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Cardozo Mourns The Loss Of Ryan Dorsett '21, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2023

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that Ryan Dorsett, a distinguished member of the Cardozo Class of 2021, died on July 10. Ryan, 26, was a fellow at the New York State Department of Financial Services, where he conducted investigations of insurance, banking and financial services violations and performed other critical services.

Law School News: Rwu Alumni Named To Pbn's 2023 40 Under Forty List 7/5/2023, Stacey Pacheco

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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2022-2023 Annual Report, Miguel J. Colon Jr.

LARC Annual Reports

The 2022-2023 Annual Report for LARC at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law highlights top downloaded articles and global readership. It outlines goals to enhance the repository, including adding Cardozo Journals. The report emphasizes LARC's commitment to providing a valuable resource for the Law School community and beyond.

Legal Education And Nextgen: Recommendations For Transitioning To A New Assessment Model, Wanda Temm

Faculty Works

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Miscellany On The Ucc And Its Primary Drafters, Virginia C. Thomas

Library Scholarly Publications

This column discusses how the UCC was shaped by monumental legal scholars Llewellyn and Mentschikoff, highlights the historical and archival resources that tell their story, and offers insight into their views on legal education.

Masthead & Table Of Contents

Dalhousie Law Journal

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Introduction, Kim Brooks, Jamie Irvine

Dalhousie Law Journal

The dream for the Dalhousie Law Journal, included in the Foreword of the Journal’s first issue in 1973, was typically Dalhousie-modest: to have a “long and reasonably useful career.”1 As we celebrate our 50th anniversary, it’s clear that we have delivered on duration and over-delivered on purpose.

A Message From Dean Leslie On The Supreme Court Lgbtq+ Ruling, Melanie B. Leslie

Cardozo News 2023

I write to you again in light of more news from the Supreme Court. As many of you know, the Court held today in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that businesses have a First Amendment free speech right to refuse to provide some creative and artistic services to LGBTQ+ individuals. it is an important moment to reaffirm that Cardozo’s commitment to protecting LGBTQ+ people’s rights is steadfast and unwavering.

A Message From Dean Leslie On The Recent Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling, Melanie B. Leslie

Cardozo News 2023

Cardozo Law School has an unyielding commitment to equal opportunity for all, and we strive to recruit and prepare for practice a student body that reflects the full measure of diversity in our nation.

Law School News: Dean Bowman On The Scotus Admissions Decision 6-29-2023, Gregory W. Bowman

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Center For Constitutional Democracy Welcomes Two New Board Members, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

Beginning on July 1, the Center for Constitutional Democracy will be welcoming two new members to its Advisory Board: former Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller ’82 and former CCD Senior Managing Affiliate Brady Harman ’15.

Maurer School Of Law, Iu Northwest Partner On Law Scholars Program, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

The Indiana University Maurer School of Law, working in collaboration with Indiana University Northwest, has established a new program to act as a pipeline into law school, the schools announced today (June 27).

The Indiana University Northwest Law Scholars Program will substantially reduce tuition for up to four IU Northwest graduates interested in pursuing a legal education in Bloomington, as well as supply qualifying students with dedicated faculty mentorship to help ensure their success.

Dcli Annual Report 2022-2023, Duquesne University

Miscellaneous Pamphlets

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Ochoa, Big Ten Law Deans Pledge Support For Diversity Ahead Of Scotus Affirmative Action Ruling, The Indiana Lawyer

Christiana Ochoa (7/22-10/22 Acting; 11/2022-)

s the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hand down a decision that could fundamentally alter affirmative action, a group of law school deans — including Dean Christiana Ochoa of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law — has issued a statement affirming the deans’ commitment to diversity.

The group of 15 deans represent Big Ten law schools, including IU Maurer. In their statement — which IU Maurer posted to its official Facebook page — the deans say they are “joining together to affirm our commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion through legally permissible means, regardless of the outcome of …

Four Maurer School Of Law Students Selected As 2023 Stevens Fellows, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

Four Indiana Law students have been selected as Stevens Fellows, the John Paul Stevens Foundation accounced today (June 20). Selection as a Stevens Fellow allows students to receive critical financial support while participating in unpaid summer legal internships serving the public interest.

Named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice, the John Paul Stevens Foundation is dedicated to promoting public interest and social justice values in the next generation of American lawyers.

The Borders Of Responsibility, The Democratic Intellect, And Other Elephants In The Room, Liam Mchugh-Russell

Dalhousie Law Journal

What can André Zucca’s photos, taken during the Nazi occupation of Paris, tell us about the law to come or the challenges it will pose to lawyers, legal scholars and legal educators? In short: Zucca’s photos serve not just as a cipher for a past in need of reckoning but as a caution about abiding a present in which crisis is always just out of frame. In the throes of slow-motion apocalypse, what should an intellectual be? And for whom? In 80 years, when someone is rifling through an attic shoebox of our history, will we appear like the subjects …

Remembering The Hon. Viola J. Taliaferro, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

Judge Viola J. Taliaferro, a pathbreaking jurist in Monroe County and renowned advocate for its children, passed away Monday, June 12 in Bloomington.

A 1977 graduate of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Taliaferro entered the legal profession later in life, but wasted no time making an immediate—and lasting—impact on her local community.

Viola Taliaferro earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1969. By then she and George had four children, and the family returned to Bloomington—where George had played for the Indiana University Hoosier football team—in 1972.

Three years later she enrolled at …

Maurer School Of Law Hosting Icleo Summer Institute Through July, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

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The Association Of Participation In A Summer Prelaw Training Program And First-Year Law School Students’ Grades, Heather M. Buzick, Christopher Robertson, Jessica D. Findley, Heidi Legg Burross, Matthew Charles, David M. Klieger

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

This study estimates the association of participation in a nine-week online educational program to prepare students for post-graduate (juris doctorate) education and law school grades. We collected registrar data from 17 U.S. law schools for participants and non-participants from the same year and a prior year. We compared first-semester law school grades between participating and non-participating students weighted by propensity scores. Course participation was associated with improved first-semester grades in a keyed course (Contracts Law) and overall grade point average. According to pre- and post-survey responses, a substantial portion of those who completed the program reported feeling more prepared for …

Fake “Universities” The Concept And Coping Strategies, Prof. Safaa Otani Prof., Hassan Al-Abdallat Dr

مجلة جامعة الإمارات للبحوث القانونية UAEU LAW JOURNAL

The increase in societal demand for higher education has resulted in a wide spread of global activities of universities and academic institutions. Moreover, the rise of e-learning patterns, distance education, and the increase of non-traditional types of education have prompted the development of quality assurance mechanisms as essential elements to the recognition and accreditation of academic institutions.

The problem that aroused, however, was in the exploitation of these models by certain entities claiming to be universities, idiomatically called the “degree mills”, and taking advantage of the educational environment to gain illegal profits, by selling “fake” degrees to individuals who pay …