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Thomasenia “Tommie” P. Duncan of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has died at age 60. She was elected to ALI in 2016 and participated in the Members Consultative Group for Principles of the Law, Data Privacy.
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Continue ReadingPresident Biden has announced the nomination of Michelle Williams Court to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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Judge Michelle Williams Court has been a judge on the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County since 2012, and ...
Continue ReadingStanford Law School has announced the appointment of George Triantis as its next dean, effective June 17. Triantis joined the Stanford faculty in 2011, having most recently served as the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business and a senior associate vice provost for research at Stanford ...
Continue ReadingJoshua A. Douglas of University of Kentucky, J. David Rosenberg College of Law has authored The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights, a book exploring the effect of several Supreme Court cases on voting rights.
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Continue ReadingEllen Ash Peters, the first woman appointed to the Connecticut Supreme Court, has died at age 94. A member of ALI for over 50 years, she was elected to the Institute in 1972 and to ALI Council in 1984, taking emeritus status in 2011.Her contributions to the ...
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