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Karen Sloan is the Legal Education Editor and Senior Writer at ALM. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @KarenSloanNLJ Sign up for Ahead of the Curve—her weekly email update on trends and innovation in legal education—here: https://www.law.com/briefings/ahead-of-the-curve/
July 1, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal
Law school faculty members spent June 26 parsing the U.S. Supreme Court's majority decision in Obergefell v. Hodges and the three dissenting opinions.
By Karen Sloan
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June 29, 2015 | National Law Journal
For the second time, a federal jury in Iowa has rejected claims that officials at the University of Iowa College of Law discriminated against a former part-time legal writing instructor because of her conservative views.
By Karen Sloan
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June 26, 2015 | National Law Journal
Law schools are out of session for the summer, but faculty members spent Friday parsing the U.S. Supreme Court's majority decision in Obergefell v. Hodges and the three dissenting opinions. The case had generated a near record number of amicus briefs, many written or signed by law professors.
By Karen Sloan
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June 25, 2015 | National Law Journal
Attention law students and lawyers: Is your LinkedIn profile up-to-date, with a professional-looking photo? Do you use Twitter to make connections? If not, you need to up your social-media game, according to Daniel Linna Jr. of Michigan State University College of Law.
By Karen Sloan
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June 23, 2015 | National Law Journal
Fordham University School of Law broke new ground in 2010 when it launched the first academic center devoted to fashion law. Now the school is following up with two first-of-their-kind degree programs in fashion law: an LL.M. for attorneys and a master of studies for nonlawyers.
By Karen Sloan
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June 23, 2015 | National Law Journal
A former part-time legal writing instructor at the University of Iowa College of Law, who claims she was passed over for a faculty position because of her conservative political views, is back in court nearly three years after a jury first pondered her case.
By Karen Sloan
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June 22, 2015 | National Law Journal
Since 1989, women who run law schools have dined together during an annual American Bar Association workshop for leaders in legal education. Tradition dictates that each attendee talk about her greatest success and failure during the year. They share support and ideas.
By Karen Sloan
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June 22, 2015 | National Law Journal
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have once again set their sights on the University of North Carolina School of Law. The state Senate has voted, 30-19, to strip $3 million from the law school in Chapel Hill—more than 10 percent of its proposed $27.2 million budget for next fiscal year.
By Karen Sloan
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June 19, 2015 | National Law Journal
Law schools should provide students with better debt counseling, report more information about their revenues and expenditures, and experiment with ways to make a law degree more affordable, an American Bar Association task force has recommended.
By Karen Sloan
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June 17, 2015 | National Law Journal
The University of New Mexico School of Law has named co-deans to lead the school beginning on Aug. 1. Alfred Mathewson and Sergio Pareja are professors at the Albuquerque law school.
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