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, is being 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.

May 6, 2009

SALT labeled "extreme left" organization in Washington Times, May 6, 2009 in an effort to discredit those who are urging the Obama Administration to prosecute Bush officials for authorizing and implementing torture and cruel and inhuman treatment of detainees in the "war on terror."

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.