Deborah Hellman News Today

A roundup of new hires, promotions and achievements at businesses and nonprofits around Maine.

What you are about to read about Harvard Law School is real. This is not The Babylon Bee. Harvard Law gives course credit for studying what a troop of monkeys can teach humans “for creating a society...

WELLS Elementary students exceed reading goal, eat lunch with special guests Wells Elementary School students participated in the reading incentive program “Get Fired Up For Reading” this spring, logging a combined total of 170,000 minutes of reading in one month’s time and far exceeding their original goal by over 97,000 minutes. Principal Kyle Burnell said […]

Deborah Hellman (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted DEFINING DISPARATE TREATMENT: A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR OUR TIMES (Indiana Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Both statutory and constitutional law prohibiting discrimination forbid actions taken on...

A cornerstone of the First Step Act, passed with bipartisan support, is the PATTERN risk-assessment tool.

Chronicling Trumps 10 most egregious abuses of power CNN 1/24/2021 © Provided by CNN Former President Donald Trump flouted the limits of presidential power unlike any of his recent predecessors, leaving behind a legacy of unmatched abuses that range from violations of longstanding norms to potentially criminal behavior. It was hard to keep track amid the daily deluge of controversial tweets and distractions that were a hallmark of the Trump presidency. And some of the most egregious abuses...