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Emory Law Launches Search for New Dean

Emory provost Dwight McBride has announced a 13-person search advisory committee that will seek community input about the position.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Stockton University Beset With Title IX Suits Over Handling of Rape Cases

In at least seven suits filed as of early September, the plaintiffs, current and former students at Stockton, describe attending fraternity parties where they were drugged and given alcohol before losing consciousness, then waking up with the realization that they had been sexually assaulted.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Liberal Law Prof. Akhil Amar: If Not Brett Kavanaugh, Then Who?

Amar: “If you torpedo Kavanaugh, you'll likely end up with someone worse—less brilliant, less constitutionally knowledgeable, less studious, less open-minded, less good for America.”
4 minute read

The Recorder

UC Hastings Report: New Tools Needed to Address Race, Gender Bias in Legal Profession

A new study from the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College says law firms and in-house legal departments are barely moving the needle when it comes to combating gender and racial discrimination.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ex-KSU Cheerleader Sues Over Efforts to Stop Kneeling Protest

A former KSU cheerleader has sued university officials, a former state representative and the county sheriff, claiming that her constitutional rights were violated when cheerleaders were barred from the playing field during the national anthem.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Convicted Sex Criminal Allowed to Resume Teaching at Lock Haven, Court Rules

Lock Haven University has been ordered to rehire a mathematics professor who was fired after the college discovered he had been convicted of sex crimes nearly 30 years ago.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Proposed Title IX Rules May Bring Clarity to GCs, Help to Defendants

Rules in the works at the U.S. Department of Education might help clarify some of the issues university GCs face around sexual assault and harassment cases. But they're unlikely to be a cure-all.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

SEC, ACC Are Defendants in Trial Over College Athletes' Compensation

A case with the potential to open the door for schools in top echelons of college football and men's and women's basketball to compensate student-athletes got underway Tuesday in a federal court in Oakland.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Attacks Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Policy

Under the direction of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department said Thursday that Harvard's race-conscious admissions process "significantly disadvantages Asian-American applicants." Harvard's lawyers at WilmerHale dispute this, and they argue admissions officers "carefully consider each applicant in his or her entirety."
5 minute read

The Recorder

The Trouble with Farming Out DMCA Takedown Notices to Bots

IP and internet expert Annemarie Bridy, an affiliate scholar at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, breaks down why automation in law isn't always a great thing.
6 minute read

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