Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While the recent bankruptcies of Johnson & Johnson, Purdue Pharma and Boy Scouts of America have sparked debate about whether bankruptcy court is the best venue for resolving mass tort claims, bankruptcy's structural, procedural and substantive benefits make it a superior choice over multidistrict litigation, says Samir Parikh at Lewis & Clark Law (..)

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Above The Law

MARCH 14, 2023

The post This Syracuse Law Professor Should Have Brushed Up On His Tort Knowledge Before The Casino Run appeared first on Above the Law. You can go to a fight. You can go to a casino. Don't start fighting at the casino.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Following a $50 million gift to Drexel University’s law school in 2014, Philadelphia trial lawyer Thomas R. Kline has committed to give the same amount…

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Day Class Torts Evening Class Torts Yesterday, the students of day and evening torts were honored by a lecture from the leading American expert on animal tort liability, Professor Luna.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Returning to class after a visit to the bathroom, he had lost the thread of the case the professor was discussing.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 1, 2024

Candidate in Law, Peking University Law School) The ‘Global Value Chains and Transnational Private Law’ workshop was successfully held at Edinburgh Law School in a hybrid format from June 23 to 25, 2024. This project is funded by the Law Schools Global League (LSGL) , convened by Prof.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 21, 2022

The Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law invites you to a research seminar organised under the auspices of the Aberdeen Law School Research Seminar Series. The topic is International Tort Litigation in the Internet and Artificial Intelligence Era: An EU Approach.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Given everything that happened and having crammed every tort concept into their heads for the last several months, more than a few test-takers are thinking a free retake might not be the proper remedy. The plane crashes. The State Bar of California: You can fly again with us for free in 5 months.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 20, 2021

Brook Tylka, who just graduated from Boston University’s law school, won second place, writing “Getting to Tarasoff : A Gender-Based History of Tort Law Doctrine.”.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 3, 2024

International family and succession law as well as questions of citizenship became a focus of his academic research and publications for decades, including his Habilitation in 1971 on „Die Familie im Recht der unerlaubten Handlungen” (“The Family in Tort Law“), [2] in particular with a view to relations connected with Italy.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In addition to Yale Law School, the students are suing Yale Law School’s Dean Heather Gerken and its Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove , and the Director of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Yaseen Eldik. became the subject of pernicious law school gossip.

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Connor Reporting

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Based on a true story of a mass tort case against two giant corporations, Jonathan Harr’s legal thriller is popular with lawyers and non-lawyers alike. This Scott Turow classic outlines the true trials and tribulations of a highly competitive first year at Harvard Law School. Books for Practical Practice.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” and Maurice C.

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Therefore, personally I thought that these subjects were areas of law that directly affected especially marginalised people. 10 Tips on preparing for law school. by RoxanneB | Nov 15, 2021 | Careers Advice Many students start thinking about their career choices while they are still at school. « Older Entries.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 25, 2024

The latest issue of the Dutch Journal on Private International Law (NIPR) has just been published NIPR 2023 issue 4 EDITORIAL I. Sumner, The next stops on the European international family law train / p. 569-571 Abstract The European legislature is not yet finished with the Europeanisation of private international family law.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Professor Kerameus started his academic career at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in his home town, and completed his career at the University of Athens. He taught Civil Procedure, Comparative and International Procedural Law in Greek and other leading Universities abroad. In Memoriam Prof.

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LawSites

JULY 7, 2022

Is the judge influenced by the prestige of the firm, the law schools of the lawyers, their political affiliations, or the nature of the company? Rabinowitz is a lawyer who practiced as an associate in Sidley LLP’s Supreme Court & Appellate and Mass Tort Litigation groups. Later, he served as a trial attorney for the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems. For more on our work, see this article and this YouTube recording ).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

In Kwai Fun Wong , which involved a claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the majority that to the extent the FTCA was special, it cut in favor of equitable tolling.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

There are eight other climate change tort cases pending: six alleging nuisance and a variety of other state common law violations in California courts, one claiming state public nuisance along with other state common law and statutory violations in Colorado, and one claiming state public nuisance and trespass in Washington.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Arnaud Nuyts , from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, held a Special Course on ‘The Forum for Cyber-Torts’, which is an excellent topic in today’s day and age. He highlighted the diversity of civil cyber-torts, as well as the challenges of locating the torts that are committed on-line.

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The Fashion Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Finally, when users interact through their avatars, we may have situations where some kind of altercation occurs that would equate to breaking the law if it took place between people in the real world. Imagine one avatar assaults another: Could we apply criminal laws of assault and battery to this situation?

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Above The Law

MARCH 13, 2024

The post If You Needed A Sign Biden Was Delusional, Look No Further appeared first on Above the Law. Bold lie, even for a politician.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2022

The law school dean, along with other defendants, invoked UIC’s Violence Prevention Plan to convene a Behavioral Threat Assessment Team (“BTAT”) to assess this purported “threat” of imminent physical violence.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 14, 2021

Maron is also someone with the type of resume that should bring pride to any school. A mother of four who graduated from Cardozo Law School and became a public defender with the Legal Aid Society. Even objecting the 1619 project being taught in public schools can lead to calls for termination.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 18, 2025

Dodge (George Washington University Law School) and first published on Transnational Litigation Blog. The original complaint asserted four claims under Missouri tort law: (1) public nuisance, (2) abnormally dangerous activity, (3) breach of duty by allowing the transmission of COVID, and (4) breach of duty by hoarding PPE.

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SimplyLawJobs

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I was also able to take up roles on the student council, as a course representative and now as the representative for the law school. Exploring law was my most memorable class in my first year as there was often meditation involved and exploration of topics such as finding joy in law.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 21, 2021

That triggers a petition from students to demand action from the law school and apologies from both the professor and the student. I do not use the term because I do not believe that it is necessary for the cases and material that a teach despite my teaching issues of discrimination in tort and constitutional cases.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There is an interesting case this week involving an adjunct professor at George Washington Law School, where I teach. Her claims were dismissed by Judge Trevoer McFadden who found that they were foreclosed by worker’s compensation as well as failing to state a claim on various torts.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 3, 2024

Written by Hadrien Pauchard (assistant researcher at Sciences Po Law School) In the Airmeex case (Civ. The decision is a great opportunity to discuss the French approach to the authority of conflict-of-laws rules. The claim was based on general tort law and on French rules regarding “unfair competition”.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The project‘s aim was to raise awareness that Private International Law („ PIL “), with its institutions and methods, can also make a significant contribution to achieving these goals. In her presentation, she focused on tort law.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

This post is by Carlos Manuel Vázquez , a professor of law at Georgetown Law School. There is, indeed, substantial authority for the proposition that the interests of jurisdictions with connections to the dispute should be aggregated when these laws have the same content.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 9, 2021

(This post is provided by Zeyu Huang, who is an associate attorney of Hui Zhong Law Firm based in Shenzhen. Mr. Huang obtained his LLB degree from the Remin University of China Law School. He is also a PhD candidate & LLM at the Faculty of Law in University of Macau.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Choices are available to judges under both the statutist approach and in the application of choice of law rules (see Michael Douglas, ‘Choice of Law in the Age of Statutes’ in Michael Douglas, Vivienne Bath, Mary Keyes and Andrew Dickinson, Commercial Issues in Private International Law: A Common Law Perspective (Hart Publishing, 2019) ch 9).

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 3, 2025

On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute will host its monthly virtual workshop Current Research in Private International Law at 4:00 p.m. Can anti-abortion states apply their regulatory and tort regimes to their own residents who leave the state to obtain an abortion?

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 11, 2024

UC Berkeley’s law school dean, Erwin Chemerinsky , and his wife, law professor Catherine Fisk , faced a bizarre scene this week when third-year students invited into their home for a dinner held a disruptive protest and refused to leave. Ironically, I raise this very hypothetical in my torts classes each year.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2024

I knew one professor who actually framed his negative reviews and put them up in his law school office. One of his favorites came after a term during which he injured his neck and had to wear a neck brace to classes. ” Nevertheless, most of us, and our schools, take our evaluations seriously.

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