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Recognizing and Celebrating the Contributions of 50 of the Top Innovators, Visionaries, and Legal Leaders in Law Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 20, 2012 Legal publisher Fastcase today published the list of winning recipients of the annual “Fastcase 50” award. The Fastcase 50 award recognizes the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law. Nominations were submitted by industry leaders, law firm managers, legal technology peers, and individuals...

Is the divide between climate change theory advocates and global warming skeptics due to scientific ignorance? Not according to a new study published in the latest edition of the journal Nature Climate Change. According to a Sunday statement, researchers affiliated with the Yale Law School's Cultural Cognition Project tested the scientific literacy of a "representative sample" of 1,500 American adults in order to determine whether or not a lack of basic scientific education was responsible...

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News Media Group today released the 2012 Best Law Schools rankings online at USNews.com. Yale Law School once again tops the U.S. News Best Law Schools list. Highlights of the rankings, part of the U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings, will be published in the Best Graduate Schools 2012 edition book, on sale April 5, 2011. The most comprehensive version of the upcoming Best Law Schools, including all the extended rankings and complete...

By Delbanco, Andrew Can the Humanities Survive? Reading Anthony Kronman's Education's End: Why Our Coueges and Uni' versities Have Given Vp on the Meaning of Life (Yale University Press, $17, 320 pp.) reminded me of some advice I once got from a colleague. We were discussing a candidate for a position in the English Department who touted his own work as "revisionist.""Keep in mind," my colleague said, "if it's new, it's probably wrong." Kronman, too, is skeptical of the new, and convinced of...

By Claude Solnik Nora V. Demleitner Dean and Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law The dynamic, new dean of Hempstead-based Hofstra's law school, Demleitner is the first woman to serve in this capacity. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, her B.A. from Bates College and an LL.M. with distinction in international and comparative law from Georgetown University Law Center. After law school, Demleitner clerked for the Hon. Samuel A. Alito Jr., then a member of the U.S....

By Marie Price When she joined the faculty of the University of Tulsa College of Law full-time in 2002, Janet Koven Levit, 39, did not have her eyes on the dean's office. "I don't think I would have imagined even a year ago that I would be sitting here today," the new dean said Monday. "It comes as a really pleasant surprise." Her appointment is effective immediately. Levit is not only the first woman to serve as law dean at TU, but the first woman ever to head up one of Oklahoma's three...

Experts' Values, Not Just Their Expertise, Likely to Determine Their Influence on Public Views of NanotechnologyWhen the public considers competing arguments about a new technology's potential risks and benefits, people will tend to agree with the expert whose values are closest to their own, no matter what position the expert takes. The same will hold true for nanotechnology, a key study has found.The study results appear in a report issued today by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies...