A longtime Loyola University New Orleans School of Law professor who is credited with making Louisiana women equal partners in their marriages died Saturday. Janet Mary Riley was 92.
A part-time Houston municipal judge and Texas Southern University law professor who is one of five plaintiffs in a federal civil rights suit against Harris County apparently spent at least…
When Erwin Chemerinsky officially takes the helm tomorrow as dean of the new law school still being created at the University of California at Irvine, he knows he wants to…
The law school at Florida A&M University says there is “no objective evidence” that a fen-phen lawyer’s $1 million gift to the school in 2002 came from tainted money.
Move over, American Idol: For serious legal scholars, watching to see how a select group of criminal law professors decides whose ideas are best-expressed is becoming something of a spectator…
The dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is planning a September conference to map out war crimes prosecutions, and the targets are President Bush and other administration officials.
The president of West Virginia University has agreed to step down after a controversy over an award of an MBA degree to the daughter of the state governor even though…
A new law school in China has announced its intent to seek accreditation from the American Bar Association, so graduates could potentially practice law in the U.S. (States commonly require…
A Northern Kentucky University law professor testified yesterday that three fen-phen lawyers told their clients of a settlement after the case had been dismissed—too late for them to raise objections.
Winnowing through an avalanche of nominations to determine the 50 minority lawyers who have had the most influence on the profession during the past five years was no easy task,…
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