Political scientist Cohen to speak April 9
Author and political scientist Cathy Cohen studies American politics and particularly how they affect African-Americans, women and the LGBTQ community – never ignoring the intersections between these identity categories. She will be on campus April 9 to give a lecture titled “Race, Sex and Neoliberalism in the Age of Obama.”
Levin elected to American Law Institute
Ronald Levin, JD, the William R. Orthwein Distinguished
Professor of Law, has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI),
a national independent organization that focuses on producing scholarly
work to clarify and modernize the law. Membership in the ALI is based
on professional achievement and a demonstrated interest in improving the
law. ALI will also honor the Hon. William H. Webster, JD ’49, with the Henry J. Friendly Medal. One of the ALI’s highest honors, the
medal is awarded periodically to individuals who have made significant
contributions to the law.
The dangers of surveillance – it’s bad, but why?
Surveillance is everywhere, from street corner cameras to the subject of books
and movies. “We talk a lot about why surveillance is bad, but we don’t
really know why,” says Neil Richards, JD, privacy law expert and
professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “We only have a
vague intuition about it, which is why courts don’t protect it. We know
we don’t like it, and that it has something to do with privacy, but
beyond that, the details can be fuzzy.” Richards’ new article on the topic, “The Danger of Surveillance,” will be published in the next issue of the Harvard Law Review.
Three challenges for the First Amendment
A group of some of the country’s top scholars in First
Amendment law recently gathered at Washington University in St. Louis to discuss pressing challenges
being faced by the first of our Bill of Rights. Three issues rose to the
top of the list for Washington University’s first amendment experts:
free expression in a digital age; impaired political debate; and
weakened rights of groups.
Winners of 26th annual book collection competition announced
When Carl Neureuther, a 1940 graduate of Washington University, set up an endowment in 1987 to support library collections, he was also ensuring support for something more: a lifelong love of reading. The results are in for this year’s Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition sponsored by Washington University Libraries.
University’s Commitment to Action brings $30 million to advance sustainability
As part of its Clinton Global Initiative University
efforts, Washington University in St. Louis has announced a major
institutional commitment to action around the important issue of
sustainability.
Faces of Hope campus rally to kick off Clinton Global Initiative University
About 200 WUSTL students have committed to accomplishing far-reaching projects, and they will showcase their plans at the annual Faces of Hope event on Wednesday, March 27. The event is hosted by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and this year is focused on student commitments as part of this year’s Clinton Global Initiative University, which will hold its annual meeting on campus in April.
The importance of groups: First Amendment expert testifies before United States Commission on Civil Rights
John Inazu, JD, first amendment expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, was invited to provide testimony to the United States Commission on Civil Rights briefing on “Peaceful Coexistence? Reconciling Non-discrimination Principles with Civil Liberties.”
Washington University School of Law launches national semester-in-practice externship
Beginning in fall 2013, Washington University School of Law will offer the Semester-in-Practice Externship, an innovative program that empowers second- and third-year law students to gain hands-on professional experience anywhere in the country. Through the externship program, students will earn academic credit by spending a semester working full time for a nonprofit, government, or in-house corporate law office in the location of their choice.
REINS Act would severely impair ability to implement laws
There is little on which the two Houses of Congress and the President can find compromise these days, with the sequester a vivid symbol of this polarization. And gridlock in government would only worsen if the proposed REINS Act moves forward, says Ronald M. Levin, JD, administrative law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.
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