New Study Provides Evidence That Diversity Enhances Higher Education Outcomes forbes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from forbes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Zunkel and a colleague, Judith P Miller, both former federal defense attorneys, said that the level of skepticism and care federal judges were bringing to the decision of whether Capitol defendants were truly dangerous enough to keep incarcerated was not at all the norm.
The problem, they said, was not that judges were making the wrong call in releasing Capitol defendants, but that judges were not making similar calls for the majority of people in the federal system.
âFor my Black and brown clients, it feels like they have to meet such an impossibly high threshold to be released,â Miller, a University of Chicago law professor, said. âThe kind of sensitivity the courts have shown to the capitol defendantsâ claims for relief â I wish some of that sensitivity would be shown more broadly.â
Interview: Adam Lebovitz and Alison LaCroix at the Cambridge Union
Image credit: Creative Commons
At the centre of American politics is the constitution – a document which has provided a structure for the development and consolidation of American democracy. On the 19th May, the Cambridge Union held a fascinating panel on Democracy in America. In it, the three panel members discuss the history of the US constitution and how it shapes contemporary political discourse today. If you missed it, then you can watch it on Youtube at your leisure.
Following the event, two of the panellists, Adam Lebovitz and Alison LaCroix, agreed to be interviewed by TCS. Adam is a historian of constitutional ideas, and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Alison is the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and an Associate Member of the Department of History. On top of this, she has recently been appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the
Share:
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its award-winning Corporate Practice with the addition of Shaun Levor and Cynthia A. Marian as shareholders in New York. Levor joins from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Marian joins from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, both on the heels of recent strategic additions Jim Cross and Jaclyn Ruch for our New York Corporate Practice.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) May 27, 2021 Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its award-winning Corporate Practice with the addition of Shaun Levor and Cynthia A. Marian as shareholders in New York. Mr. Levor joins from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Ms. Marian joins from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, both on the heels of recent strategic additions Jim Cross and Jaclyn Ruch for our New York Corporate Practice.
2021 JOHN MARSHALL FELLOWS
Phil Axt is a litigation associate with the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Before joining Gibson Dunn, Phil clerked for the Honorable Jennifer Walker Elrod on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was President of the Veteran’s Association, Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society chapter, and Managing Editor of the
Yale Journal of Law & Technology. He also holds a B.S. in Economics from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated as a Distinguished Cadet. Prior to law school, Phil was a Captain in the U.S. Army.