It is nice to see University at Buffalo officials return to their senses.
The unified school board might be standing on shaky legal ground if it follows through with plans to meet with attorneys behind closed doors to discuss Memphis City Schools Supt. Kriner Cash, an attorney says. Absent active or pending litigation, said Lucian Pera, an attorney for The Commercial Appeal, a closed meeting of the board would violate the state's open meetings law.
News Advisory: Like many other educational institutions, New York Law School will be complying with the new federal Constitution Day law -- but with a twist. The law school will hold a panel discussion, "Is Constitution Day Constitutional: Byrd-Brained Idea or Welcome Opportunity?" As its name suggests, the panelists will consider the constitutionality of the requirement for schools to present programs or distribute materials relating to the United States Constitution on or about Sept. 17 each year, and they will discuss potentially more appropriate ways to teach Americans about the Constitution. The law school's event is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21.
Emily Bazelon's favorite Supreme Court decisions are ones where the liberal and conservative justices find common ground, where a Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sides with a Justice Antonin Scalia. It's a relief when you have cases that don't break 5-4 in a traditional way," Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate Magazine, said last week at the University of Maryland School of Law. "It suggests there is some intellectual playfulness and openness on the court.
Notice is hereby given of a public meeting of the of the Assembly of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). The meeting will involve discussion of a research report prepared by Professor Lenni B. Benson (New York Law School) and Russell Wheeler (The Governance Institute and Brookings Institution) for ACUS's ``Immigration Adjudication'' project. The committee will meet via a virtual, online Web forum extending over a period of approximately six weeks. Committee members will discuss the research report by posting comments to the forum and reading comments submitted to the forum by other persons. The public may participate by submitting comments electronically or by mail or fax.
Novelist David Schmahmann is also a lawyer, and he presents the premise of "Ivory from Paradise" almost as though it is a hypothetical case in a law school discussion. Would a dying woman's adult children be justified in removing their late father's collection of African artifacts from her home in London? What if their vulgar stepfather is insulting toward their mother, who had once been a leading opponent of apartheid? What if South African law prevents them from moving the funds out of the country?
The affordability of services is key to the future of the legal industry, speakers and an audience member said at a panel discussion Thursday morning at the Missouri Bar's annual conference. The discussion, titled "The Future of the Profession: Where We Are Going, Who's Driving, and What Will It Be Like When We Get There?" featured Thomas Lyons III, past president of the Rhode Island Bar Association; Thomas Hyde, a former executive vice president with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; Ed Hershewe, of The Hershewe Law Firm in Joplin; Jennifer Gille Bacon, chairwoman of the Missouri Supreme Court Advisory Committee; and Supreme Court Judge Zel Fischer. Ellen Suni, dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, was the moderator of the discussion at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kan...
A panel including David L. Chambers, Charles E. Daye, Margaret E. Montoya, Marjorie M. Schulz and Frank H. Wu will be featured at a March 8 2004 Mitchell Lecture at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. The panel will examine innovative proposals for enhancing diversity in American law schools. Free and open to the public, Who Gets In? The Quest for Diversity After Grutter will start at 3 p.m. on Monday, March 8 in 106 John Lord O'Brian Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
Experts who participated in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case on affirmative action in law school admissions will be joined by leading scholars of diversity in higher education for the 2004 Mitchell Lecture of the University at Buffalo Law School. This panel discussion will examine innovative proposals for enhancing diversity in American law schools. Who Gets In? The Quest for Diversity After Grutter will be held from 3-5:30 p.m. on Monday, March 8 in 106 John Lord O'Brian Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. It will be free and open to the public.
The Memphis Board of Education has had one public meeting to discuss how to replace the departing Supt. Carol Johnson. But that conversation has left the board room and public arena and traveled to phone calls and e-mails in apparent violation of the state's open meetings law.
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