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William Webster Helps Catch Jamaican Phone Scammer

An article in The Washington Post highlights the uniquely ironic story of a Jamaican-based telephone scam that happened to target none other than former director of the FBI and the CIA, William H. Webster. Mr. Webster is the only person to ever hold both jobs, and perhaps the ...

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar Elected to Harvard Corporation

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the Supreme Court of California has been elected as a member of the Harvard Corporation. He and Timothy R. Barakett will assume their roles on July 1, 2019.

Justice Cuéllar currently serves on the Supreme Court of California and was previously a longtime leading member ...

John G. Levi on LSC Disaster Task Force

John G. Levi, chairman of the board of directors of the Legal Services Corp. (LSC) and partner at Sidley Austin, recently co-authored an article with Robert Malionek of Latham & Watkins for Law360 entitled “Civil Legal Aid’s Essential Role in Wildfire Response.”  The article details the devastating ...

Sharon Sandeen Awarded Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair

Sharon K. Sandeen, of Mitchell Hamline School of Law, has been awarded the Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics for 2019-20, sponsored by the Fulbright Finland Commission. Her host institution is the Hanken School of Economics, Department of Accounting and Commercial Law, located in Helsinki, Finland.

Professor ...

Jenny Martinez New Dean of Stanford Law School

Jenny S. Martinez, a scholar of international law and constitutional law who has been a member of the Stanford faculty for more than 15 years, has been named dean of Stanford Law School, effective April 1.

Professor Martinez is a leading expert on the role of courts and ...