The annual 1L Moot Court competition wrapped up as the spring semester wound down. Almost 70 1Ls argued the merits of a cutting edge issue—whether the First Amendment prohibited school...
RWU Law Celebrates Commencement 2012!
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Bristol, R.I. May 18, 2012: Roger Williams University School of Law’s 17th Commencement took place Friday under clear blue skies, as 183 new law school graduates were awarded juris doctor degrees before a crowd of nearly 2,000.
Some highlights of the day:
• Renowned jurist and judicial reformer, the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, delivered the keynote and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws...
PIONEERING JURIST WILL DELIVER 2012 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Madeleine Albright to deliver University address
BRISTOL, R.I., May 3, 2012 – The Hon. Jack B. Weinstein – a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York, who is a pioneer in criminal sentencing law and one of the most renowned and respected judges in America – will be awarded an honorary degree and deliver the Commencement address during the Roger Williams University School...
From WJAR, NBC 10: "Gun in toys at RI airport was custody dispute" by Katie Davis
WARWICK, R.I., May 09, 2012: A professor of national security law at Roger Williams University told NBC 10 on Wednesday that airport security officials did their job well when they found gun parts and ammunition hidden inside stuffed animals at T.F. Green Airport."Here you had Mickey Mouse involved. But what we've learned over the last 10 years is that every terrorist plot seems like Mickey Mouse, until it...
From WPRO's The Buddy Cianci Show, "A Word To The Wise in Woonsocket"
April 26, 2012: While following the Woonsocket war memorial controversy you best pay close attention to this controversy from a legal standpoint. I know it’s very difficult to do so with such an emotional issue especially with it burning up the talk radio phone lines with outraged folks expressing their opinions. In case you’ve been in a cave somewhere, a Wisconsin based organization called Freedom From Religion Foundation is...
BRISTOL, R.I., April 24, 2012 – Several years ago, Roger Williams University School of Law's Professor Michael Yelnosky embarked on a study that would capture one vital and objective measure of a law school’s quality: how often its faculty publish in the most prestigious law journals.
Building on a methodology used by noted University of Chicago law professor Brian Leiter to compare law schools at the top of the U.S. News rankings, Yelnosky focused on the other hundred schools, many of which...
From the BALKINIZATION Blog: "Why Presidents Cannot Run Against the Court" by Professor Jared Goldstein, Guest Blogger
Saturday, April 14, 2012: With the prospect that the Supreme Court may strike down the Affordable Care Act, many commentators, including Marvin Ammori on this blog, have argued that President Obama should “campaign against the Court.” It is not really a plausible campaign strategy.
Contrary to popular conception, Franklin Roosevelt did not campaign against the Court in...
From PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS: "NEWSMAKERS: Time to step up enforcement of environmental regulations" by Marc Mainville, PBN Staff Writer
KEEPING IT CLEAN: Clean Water Action Rhode Island Director Jamie Rhodes [RWU Law '12] highlights electronic waste-recycling programs as a sign of environmental progress in the state.
INTERVIEW: Jamie Rhodes
POSITION: Rhode Island state director, Clean Water Action
BACKGROUND: Rhodes has spent his entire professional career in environmental advocacy. He...
From THE BROWN DAILY HERALD: "Panel targets law’s involvement in health care" by Jasmine Fuller
Wednesday, March 14, 2012: Panelists advocated improving medical-legal relations in the health care system Tuesday afternoon during the second part of a three-part seminar series entitled “Social Determinants of Health.” Doctors, lawyers, health care workers, community members and students gathered in Hunter Laboratory for the second seminar, “Law and Social Determinants: Legal Interventions to...
Boston, MA – March 2, 2012. Longtime RWU Law Adjunct Professor Jerry Cohen, of the Boston and Providence-based law firm Burns & Levinson LLP, has been elected President of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. Mr. Cohen has over 40 years of experience as a lawyer and is a partner in the firm’s Business Litigation, Corporate, Intellectual Property, and Science & Technology practices. He has also served as an expert witness, arbitrator and mediator in numerous intellectual...
From the ABA JOURNAL: "Immigration Law Raises a Unique Mix of Ethics Issues for Lawyers" by G. M. Filisko
March 1, 2012: Immigration law isn’t necessarily a haven for unscrupulous practitioners. But it often seems that way, say lawyers in the field. Generally, state disciplinary agencies don’t track complaints and actions against lawyers on the basis of their fields of practice. “Like every other board of professional responsibility, most of our complaints are related to criminal or domestic...
From the BROWN DAILY HERALD: "Teach-in dissects marriage equality" by Izzy Rattner, Senior Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 29, 2012: Tax differences between gay and heterosexual couples and the local marriage equality situation, as well as its judicial progress, were the focus of a teach-in hosted by the Queer Alliance last night. The event featured law professors from Roger Williams University and a representative from Marriage Equality Rhode Island. Almost all of the approximately 10...
From the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: A new feature called the "One-Page Magazine", comprised of very short items, including one-sentence book reviews, noted the following:
"Buckley, by Carl T. Bogus: How liberals should write about conservatives."
For the full NEW YORK TIMES review of Professor Bogus's book, click here.
From the NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL: "The Tea Party is just the latest movement to argue the modern administrative state is an unconstitutional aberration" by Jared Goldstein
February 20, 2012: The failure of the Tea Party movement to rally around a single presidential candidate has convinced many pundits that its time as a major force in mainstream politics may be coming to an end. But make no mistake, even if "Tea Party" fades as a label, the forces that created the
For the past century, a series...
From GoLocalProv: "RWU Law Professor Appointed to RI Foundation Board" by the GoLocalProv News Team
PROVIDENCE, February 17, 2012: Governor Lincoln D. Chafee today announced his appointment of Roger Williams University School of Law Professor Jorge O. Elorza to the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Foundation.
“Professor Elorza is the perfect candidate for the Rhode Island Foundation’s Board of Directors,” Governor Chafee said. “He is a true Rhode Island success story. The son of...
From RHODE ISLAND LAWYERS WEEKLY: "GPS ruling breaks new ground on privacy rights" by Albert Turco and Kimberly Atkins
February 9th, 2012: After punting on the issue in the past, the U.S. Supreme Court has again waded into the choppy waters of privacy protection in the digital age in a case involving the warrantless use of a GPS device on a suspect’s car.
But while still not ruling on the privacy issue directly, this time five justices gave a strong indication that individuals’ privacy...
