Fri, 04/30/2021
LAWRENCE Three University of Kansas School of Law alumni will receive the law school’s highest alumni honor, the Distinguished Alumni Award, this year. The award celebrates graduates for their professional achievements, contributions to the legal field and service to their communities and the university.
Rosemary O’Leary, Judge Robert Nugent III and the late Reginald Robinson will receive the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award.
Rosemary “Rosie” O’Leary, L’81, the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor in KU s School of Public Affairs & Administration, has distinguished herself through exemplary service and a lifetime of award-winning research and teaching. After working as an attorney, O Leary earned a doctorate in public administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. O’Leary spent the last three decades researching the intersection of public administration and law. She has written 12 books and over 135 scholarly articles. She has recei
Fri, 04/30/2021
LAWRENCE Three University of Kansas School of Law alumni will receive the law school’s highest alumni honor, the Distinguished Alumni Award, this year. The award celebrates graduates for their professional achievements, contributions to the legal field and service to their communities and the university.
Rosemary O’Leary, Judge Robert Nugent III and the late Reginald Robinson will receive the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award.
Rosemary “Rosie” O’Leary, L’81, the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor in KU s School of Public Affairs & Administration, has distinguished herself through exemplary service and a lifetime of award-winning research and teaching. After working as an attorney, O Leary earned a doctorate in public administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. O’Leary spent the last three decades researching the intersection of public administration and law. She has written 12 books and over 135 scholarly articles. She has recei
A conference explores energy justice, and emerging issue in the transition to renewable energy sources.
Participants in the conference “Energy Justice: Prioritizing Equity in the Greener Grid,” organized by the Center for Energy and Environmental Law at the UConn School of Law on April 16, 2021.
The rapid acceleration of climate change will soon force states to collaborate to combat it, Katie Dykes, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, told a large virtual audience at a UConn Law conference on April 16, 2021.
“We can no longer just put on our blinders and say we don’t care what’s happening outside of Connecticut,” Dykes said. “The recent winter storms and power grid failures in Texas illustrate that.”
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Jake R. McMillian has joined Detroit-based Dickinson Wright as its first-ever director of diversity and inclusion.
Jake R. McMillian has joined Detroit-based Dickinson Wright as its first-ever director of diversity and inclusion.
McMillian, who will be based out of the firm’s Chicago office, previously served in similar roles at two other multinational law firms. Covering more than 40 practice areas, Dickinson Wright has six Michigan offices in Detroit, Troy, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Saginaw in addition to locations across the U.S. and a Canadian office.
McMillian will work with senior firm leadership and the diversity and inclusion committee, which was established before his appointment, to address issues related to diverse attorney recruitment, retention, and promotion; organizational culture and equity; diversity program development; and community engagement. He will be responsible for implementing the committee’s 32-point action plan, as w
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The latest U.S. News and World Report law school rankings stumbled into our laps earlier this month. We say, “stumbled” as the release was marked by multiple last-minute edits to the methodology. Nothing instills confidence like changing the whole formula three times in the last weeks!
But putting aside public flops like the failed diversity rankings or the deep methodological concerns that drive our own Top 50 Law Schools ranking, there’s actually a lot about the U.S. News Rankings that are wrong even if you accept their own methodological choices. Professor Corey Rayburn Yung of the University of Kansas School of Law decided to break down the latest USNWR rankings without fundamentally altering their assumptions. In other words, to interrogate the rankings on their own terms.