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February 2, 2012
Consortium of Asian Pacific American law professors created an annual award named after University of Hawaii law professor and SALT member Eric Yamamoto to recognize his devotion to the struggle for justice and his mentorship of promising legal scholars.
The "Professor Eric Y. Yamamoto Emerging Scholar Award" will be given to an early-career law professor at a U.S. law school who demonstrates outstanding promise.
Yamamoto served as a member of the legal team that, in 1984, successfully argued the unconstitutionality of the government's incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
The case became the cornerstone for the 1988 Civil Liberties Act, which included a presidential apology, reparations, and a public education fund.
February 2, 2012
Ruben Garcia, UNLV, and a member of the SALT board of governors, was interviewed on Marketplace about the role of unions in Nevada in the upcoming presidential election. Listen and read the transcript of the interview.
December 13, 2011
Hope Lewis, Northeastern University School of Law and a member of the SALT board of governors, has been named the recipient of the 2011-2012 ABA Section on International Law Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women. “The Mayre Rasmussen Award is given annually by the American Bar Association Section of International Law to someone who has demonstrated sustained outstanding service or a specific and extraordinary service in connection with the advancement of women in the legal profession. Specifically, we focus on nominees who have served as a mentor to a woman or a group of women to assist in the advancement of women in the practice of international law.”
November 28, 2011
Sarah Redfield, University of New Hampshire School of Law, has been named the 2012 Sadie Alexander Lifetime Achievement Award recipient by the ABA Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline.
August 22, 2011
Roberto Corrada, Denver University Sturm College of Law, is bringing practical skills training to students through an interactive website. Read the story.
August 16, 2011
Stephen Gillers, NYU legal ethics expert, is quoted extensively in the August 15, 2011 report by NPR on judicial ethics in the Supreme Court. Read the report.
July 19, 2011
Karla McKanders (Tennessee), SALT board member and co-chair of the Human Rights Committee, has been named a Fulbright Scholar and will be traveling throughout the 2011-2012 academic year. She will be in Morocco to teach International Comparative Refugee Law and Forced Migration of Africans throughout the Diaspora. She will also be teaching at the University of Mohamed Souissi in Rabat. Karla will be teaching in both French and English.
October 8, 2010
SALT board member Doug Colbert and his Access to Justice clinic at University of Maryland School of Law win the right to counsel at bail hearings for indigent criminal defendants throughout the state. Read the Baltimore Sun article.
July 30, 2010
M. Leighton & C. de la Vega, Sentencing Our Children toDie in Prison: Global Law and Practice 4 (2007). An updated version of the study concluded that Israel’s “lawsallow for parole review of juvenile offenders serving life terms,” but expressed reservations about how that parole review is implemented. De la Vega & Leighton, Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison: Global Law and Practice, 42 U. S. F. L. Rev. 983, 1002–1003 (2008).
You can access the program at www.kpfk.org to hear it live (Listen Live on the main menu). It will also be available on the Archive Section after the live broadcast is over (Audio Archives on the main menu).
Ben Davis, co-chair of the SALT Human Rights Committee, has been named “teacher of the year” by the University of Toledo Law School Alumni Association.
Professor Martha Minow, SALT lifetime member, and a professor at Harvard Law School since 1981, was just named Dean of Harvard Law School.
June 1, 2009
Rod Sullivan, Florida Coastal School of Law, argued before the United States Supreme Court in the case of Atlantic Soundings v Townsend during the recent term. The issue was whether an seaman who was maliciously denied medical care could get punitive damages from a shipowner. A result is expected in June.
The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, honored Professor Sherman Cohn of Georgetown University Law Center, a long-time member of its Board of Visitors, at its May 17th graduation ceremony.
May 28, 2009
Peter Joy, Washington University, has been named Vice Dean at Washington University Law School starting in January 2010.
Eric M. Freedman, Hofstra University, comments on his Yale Law School classmate Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, on MediaMatters.com and on May 26, 2009, WNYC's Morning Edition.
SALT's executive director, Hazel Weiser, was honored by the Nassau County Women's Bar Association at its June 22nd dinner with the Virginia C. Duncombe, Esq. Scholarship Award for her contributions to legal education.
May 13, 2009
Ben Davis, co-chair of the SALT Human Rights Committee, discusses accountability for authorizing and implementing torture on Unfinished Business, WUSB.fm. Click to listen.
Interview picked up by several other public radio stations across the country and in the Middle East.
May 10, 2009
Marjorie Cohn, SALT Human Rights Committee member, quoted at length in SF Chronicle article, Torture Allegation Probes Run Political Risks.
April 30, 2009
Former SALT president Phoebe Haddon named first African American woman dean at University of Maryland School of Law.
April 22, 2009
David A. Brennen appointed Dean of University of Kentucky School of Law.
April 16, 2009
Columbia Law School Professor Conrad Johnson's website work documenting the disturbing decline in African American and Mexican American law school students discussed in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
March 17, 2009
SALT co-president Deborah Waire Post writes for the New York Times blog, Room for Debate.
SALT's statements and research on the bar exam are relied upon extensively in Lorenzo A. Trujillo's "The Relationship Between Law School and the Bar Exam: A Look at Asssessment and Student Success," 78 U.Colo.L.Rev.70 (2007). This scholarship was identified in the Social Science Research Network as being among the top ten most downloaded articles in the country in the summer of 2007. In addition, it was selected for inclusion in The Social and Environmental Impact Network, sponsored by the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program. www.jgls.org, proposed to be established in Sonepat, Haryana, India.
Modified: February 3, 2012
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