Incoming Suffolk Law School Dean Camille Nelson speaks about her plans.  Read the Business First of Buffalo article. 

Suffolk Law School names Camille A. Nelson Dean of Law School.  Read press release.

 

SALT board member and Chair of the LGBT Committee, Jackie Gardina, was awarded tenure at Vermont Law School.  Read press release. 

 

Connie de la Vega's scholarship was cited by Justice Kennedy in Graham v. Florida, which limited a state's right to sentence a juvenile to life imprisionment without possibility of parole.  Today we continue that longstanding practice in notingthe global consensus against the sentencing practice inquestion.  A recent study concluded that only 11 nations authorize life without parole for juvenile offenders under any circumstances; and only 2 of them, the United States and Israel, ever impose the punishment in practice. See
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).

 

SALT co-president Steven Bender is being honored by University of Oregon with its Research Innovation Award for his research activities that have gained national prominence.  He is the coauthor of a casebook on real estate transactions, a national treatise on real estate financing, a book on Latino stereotypes titled, Greasers and Gringos Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination, and a book on politics titled, One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity.  Click here to read more. 

John Garvey, Director of the Daniel Webster Scholars Honor Program at Franklin Pierce Law Center, is quoted in Nashua Telegraph article, May 15, 2010, describing the bar exam swearing in of the new graduates from this innovative program.  Click here to read more. 

 

SALT board member Michael Avery of Suffolk University School of Law, participated in The Federalist Society panel discussion, along with John Yook after a reading of Shakespeare's Henry V.  Click here to read his remarks. 

 

The John Marshall Law School has named SALT member Anthony Niedwiecki director of the Lawyering Skills Program. Niedwiecki currently is an associate professor and director of the Lawyering Skills and Values Program at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He also is vice mayor of Oakland Park, Fla.

 

Michael Avery, SALT board member and co-chair of the Judicial/Governmental Nominations Committee, interviewed on CNN about the nomination of Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court.  Click here to watch the video.  Or to read the transcript of the interview. 

 

SALT Judicial/Governmental Nominations co-chair Michael Avery, Suffolk University School of Law, interviewed on CNN about the Goodwin Liu nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Click here to watch. 

 

Professor Holly Maguigan was interviewed in an AP article on the allegations against Governor David Paterson for abusing his office when pressuring a claimant to abandon domestic violence charges against a top aide.  Click here to read the article. 

 

Professor Marjorie Cohn's book Cameras in The Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998) (co-authored with David Dow), reprinted (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2002) was cited by Justice Breyer in his dissenting opinion that kept cameras out of the courtroom for the Proposition 8 trial broadcast.  Click here to read the US Supreme Court's decision.

 

Professor Tayyab Mahmud, former SALT co-president, was interviewed for a Washington Post article about the five young Northern Virginia men being held in Pakistan.  Click here to read the story. 

 

Professor Anthony Niedwiecki, a SALT Member, was recognized recently by a national veterans group, American Veterans for Equal Rights. Professor Niedwiecki received the Trailblazer Award for his work in trying to change the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.  Click here to read more about the award.

 

Eric Yamamoto, University of Hawai'i, was honored with the 2009 Ha' aheo Award by the American Board of Trial Advocates, Hawai'i Chapter, for his outstanding contributions to justice for communities within Hawai'i and beyond.  Click here to read about the award. 

 

Robert Dinerstein, American University, Washington College of Law, has been named the 2010 William Pincus Award recipient, for his contributions in advancing the cause of clinical education, his scholarship, and his commitment to his students and clients. Professor Dinerstein will be honored at the Clinical Section luncheon on Saturday, January 9, 2010, at the AALS Annual Meeting. 

 

Luz Herrera, Thomas Jefferson Law School, is featured on the Legal Rebels Blog on October 14, 2009.  Click here to read the posting on her "low bono" pioneer program. 

 

Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, was interviewed on Voice of San Diego, on Friday, September 25th.  Click here to read the interview. 

 

Marjorie Cohn will be honored for her term as president of the National Lawyers Guild at the Thomas Jefferson Law School reception on Thursday, January 7, 2010, at the Plimsol Club at the top of the New Orleans World Trade Center, adjacent to the Hilton Hotel.  The reception will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 pm.

 

Ben Davis, Prof. Christopher Pyle (Holyoke), and Scott Horton (Columbia) were interviewed by Kris Welch on Living Room on kpfa.org. on August 27, 2009 from 12:00-1:00 pm PST. 

 

Tayyab Mahmud, former SALT co-president, and director of the Center for Global Justice at Seattle University School of Law, will be part of a discussion to commemorate 62 years of the partition of colonial India on Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles, KPFK 90.7 FM, in their regular live-broadcast program “Beneath the Surface,” today, Thursday, August 13, 2009, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Coast Time)

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.
 

June 11, 2009
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.