test

Some would argue that the most fundamental of all rights is the right to self-determination — the right to be what you want to be, to make decisions for yourself, and to chart your own course. What’s more essential to one’s personhood than — right or wrong — to be oneself? The right to free speech, the right to the unfettered practice of the religion of one’s choosing, the right to peaceably ...

FBFK Law Firm Grows Into Austin, Taps Lauded Intellectual Property Attorney Kirby Cronin to Lead Market  KULR-TV

Dear colleagues, Last week, we opened a national search for the next dean of the UIC School of Law. Darby Dickerson stepped down as dean in May, and Julie Spanbauer, professor of law, currently is serving as interim dean. The university seeks an experienced and strategic leader who will continue to advance the school’s mission of access, opportunity, academic excellence, community building an...

Sam Waterston on the original 'Law & Order' Will Hart/NBC More than a decade after its surprising cancellation, NBC has revived Dick Wolf’s mothership series Law & Order for what the network is calling its 21st season. The revival, which has been in the works through various starts and stops since 2015, gives Wolf nine shows across three different franchises on two broadcast netwo...

Image from Shutterstock. A New York federal judge has overturned a decision to discharge a law grad’s student debt, citing a “constellation of evidence” that the debtor “placed himself in this predicament" after abandoning a legal career. U.S. District Judge Philip M. Halpern of the Southern District of New York said a bankruptcy judge should not have granted summary judgment to Kevin Jared R...

The Emory University School of Law received a groundbreaking, multi-million dollar grant by the Southern Company Foundation to create a Center for Civil Rights and Social Justice. The grant will also support efforts to improve student achievement and access at Emory College and the Winship Cancer Institute. Totaling $7 million, with $5 million allocated towards the Center, the grant is the la...

It has been over two months since the federal District Court’s July 28, 2021 decision in Victim Rights Law Center et al v. Cardona vacating the section of the United States Department of Education’s 2020 Title IX Final Rule that precluded postsecondary institutions from considering any statement made by a party or witness who does not submit to cross examination at a live adjudicatory hearing...

Photo Credit: Greg Hauenstein (CC-By-SA 4.0) DES MOINES, Iowa – The Kirkwood Institute filed a lawsuit in Polk County District Court on Tuesday against State Auditor Rob Sand, and his chief of staff, John McCormally, alleging violations of Iowa’s open records law. The Kirkwood Institute’s open records request sought communications between the state auditor’s office and Laura Belin of Bleedin...

On August 20, 2021, China’s first comprehensive Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) was passed into law. The Cybersecurity Law, the Data Security Law, and the PIPL of China are the three pillars of China’s data protection framework, which govern cybersecurity, data security, and personal information protection respectively. The Cybersecurity Law largely governs cybersecurity requirem...

Guest Columnist David Barber is a professor of history at University of Tennessee at Martin. On my first day of classes at the University of Tennessee at Martin recently, I told all three of my American History Survey classes that I would be in violation of a newly enacted Tennessee “education” law were I teaching the same history in K-12 schools that I would be teaching them over the course...