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Law school "denaming" sparks donor debacle

Inside Higher Ed

Williams from its law school, Williams’s descendants were irate. Richmond president Kevin Hallock broke the news to Robert Smith, Williams’s great-great-grandson and a graduate of the law school, over the phone. “History and posterity will judge the University and the Board.”

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Full Recording of Judge’s Disrupted Stanford Talk

Inside Higher Ed

A full recording has emerged of students at Stanford University law school disrupting a talk by Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. The audio recording was reproduced by David Lat for the legal blog Original Jurisdiction. Duncan was a target because he has a history of anti-LGBT activism. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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An Apology for the Liberal Arts

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabelle Hutchinson…is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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What’s Really Wrong with the College Rankings

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has written the best article that I’ve read on the recent decision by leading law schools to boycott the US News ratings. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Battling anti-CRT legislation in the Upper Midwest (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

” This is but one example of the wave of anti-CRT legislation that Ellen Schrecker, a professor emeritus of history at Yeshiva University, has called “the new McCarthyism.” ” But this approach to opposing anti-CRT legislation by claiming it is only taught in law schools has not proven effective.

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Defending Central European University and Academic Freedom: Elements of an Initial Response

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She has also been a postdoctoral fellow at New York University Law School and a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. Her main field of expertise and research is international and European human rights law, particularly on freedom of expression.