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Ellen 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 ...
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Copyright Office has announced Nancy E. Weiss as the fifth Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in residence. The Kaminstein Scholar Program is designed to provide an opportunity for scholars in legal, copyright, and other related areas to spend time in the Copyright Office to work on ...
Continue ReadingRoger L. Gregory of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit is this year’s recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.
The Jefferson Medal, jointly sponsored by the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, is awarded annually to recognize the achievements made ...
Continue ReadingJeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center has authored The Pursuit of Happiness, How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America, a book on several of our country’s founders and how their perception of “the pursuit of happiness” influenced the Declaration ...
Continue ReadingToday, a bipartisan group led by Bob Bauer (NYU School of Law and former White House Counsel to President Obama) and Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School and former Assistant Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration) issued “Principles for Insurrection Act Reform.” The distinguished group, convened at ...
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