Intentionally teaching diversity skills in bar tested classes requires professors to navigate a variety of potential obstacles like uneven casebook coverage of topics/perspectives, limited class time to devote to important issues, and possible student resistance in discussions. This session will feature panelists from across the curriculum focusing on how to successfully integrate diversity…, Meet the Speakers, Montré Denise Carodine, Montré Denise Carodine, earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from Louisiana Tech University and her J.D., cum laude, from Tulane Law School where she was on the Senior Editorial Board of the , Tulane Law Review, . After graduating from law school, Professor Carodine clerked for the Honorable Carl E. Stewart of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She then practiced as a litigation associate with Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston, Texas, from 2001-2004. She was on the law faculty at Washington and Lee University from 2004 to 2007. She has been on the Alabama Law faculty since…, Indiana Law Journal, , the, UC Davis Law Review, , the, William and Mary Law Review, , and the, Maryland Law Review, . She has also published several book chapters. Professor Carodine has provided commentary numerous national and local media outlets, including the, Wall Street Journal, ,, Time Magazine, ,, NPR, ,, USA Today, , and AL.com, among others. She is a graduate of Birmingham’s FBI Citizen’s Academy, has chaired the American Association of University Women’s Selected Professions Panel and is currently a member of the Alabama Access to Justice Commission. Jeremiah A. Ho, Jeremiah A. Ho, is Associate Professor at UMass Law where he teaches Contracts I & II, Trusts & Estates, and Remedies. His research focuses on topics relating to law and inequality, mostly with respect to sexuality/gender, race, and culture. In addition, he also writes extensively on legal education, methodology, and theory. Professor Ho’s articles have appeared in the, Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, , the, Harvard Journal on Legislation, ,, The Georgetown Law Journal Online, , the, Journal of Legal Education, , the, Utah Law Review, , the, Kentucky Law Journal, , the, American University Journal on Gender, Social Policy, and the Law, , the, U.C. Davis Business Law Journal, , and others. As a regular contributor to the Humans Rights at Home Blog, Professor Ho’s shorter pieces on sexuality and race often garner mentioning by SCOTUS Blog. In both his scholarship and teaching, Professor Ho’s work has received significant recognition. His scholarship in law and sexuality has earned him a Dukeminier Award, specifically The Ezekiel Webber Prize, from The Williams…, Thea Johnson, is a scholar of criminal law and criminal procedure. Her scholarship focuses on the role of plea bargaining in the criminal legal system, including the ways in which stakeholders manipulate the plea process and stretch ethical boundaries to achieve particular outcomes. Her article, “Fictional Pleas,” was selected for inclusion in the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum and as the runner-…, Monica Teixeira de Sousa , is a Professor of Law at Roger Williams University School of Law where she teaches Property, Family Law, and Race & the Foundations of American Law. Prior to joining the RWU Law faculty in 2022, Monica was a tenured professor at New England Law | Boston where she created and served as the director of the First Generation Students Program. Before her academic career, Professor Teixeira de…, Mikah Thompson, is the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and a Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. She teaches the following courses: Civil Procedure, Evidence, Race and the Law, and Employment Law. Dean Thompson’s research centers on the intersection of evidentiary law and race. She also writes on the pedagogy of legal education with a particular emphasis on…, Meet the Moderator, Nicole P. Dyszlewski, Nicole P. Dyszlewski, is one of the editors of , Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion and Equity in the Law School Classroom, . She currently serves as the Director of Special Programs, Academic Affairs at RWU Law and as an adjunct professor. She received a B.A. from Hofstra University, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar and the Rhode Island State Bar. Her areas…
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Arya Omshehe, a third-year student at Roger Williams University School of Law, has been awarded first place in the 2022 James E. Beckley Securities Arbitration and Law Writing Competition . The honor was formally conferred on Oct. 26 during the annual meeting of the Public Investors Advocate Bar Association (PIABA), an international group whose members represent investors in disputes with the…, PIABA Bar Journal, , according to Jason Burge of Fishman Haygood LLP in New Orleans, the journal’s editor-in-chief. “It is an honor to win this prestigious award,” Omshehe said. “Most fulfilling, however, is the privilege of furthering efforts to educate public investors about securities and commodities and abuses in the arbitration process, and to advocate legislative reform for fairer securities laws.” When…, Roger Williams Law Review, , he approached Chief Justice Weisberger Visiting Professor of Law Andrew Spacone—whom he had served as a summer teaching and research assistant, and in whose Securities Regulation course he was currently enrolled—to serve as his advisor. Spacone admits he was initially skeptical, because Omshehe had little prior experience with securities law. “However, he quickly mastered enough of the subject…, securities regulations, , " he said. “My parents escaped from Iran and sought refuge in California after the Iranian Revolution. As a first-generation Iranian American, I did not grow up with any understanding of securities laws other than what I saw in movies like ‘Wall Street’ with Michael Douglas. Professor Spacone was not exactly thrilled to hear this, but I think he would tell you, as most who know me would, that I…
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Arya Omshehe, a third-year student at Roger Williams University School of Law, has been awarded first place in the 2022 James E. Beckley Securities Arbitration and Law Writing Competition . The honor was formally conferred on Oct. 26 during the annual meeting of the Public Investors Advocate Bar Association (PIABA), an international group whose members represent investors in disputes with the…, PIABA Bar Journal, , according to Jason Burge of Fishman Haygood LLP in New Orleans, the journal’s editor-in-chief. “It is an honor to win this prestigious award,” Omshehe said. “Most fulfilling, however, is the privilege of furthering efforts to educate public investors about securities and commodities and abuses in the arbitration process, and to advocate legislative reform for fairer securities laws.” When…, Roger Williams Law Review, , he approached Chief Justice Weisberger Visiting Professor of Law Andrew Spacone—whom he had served as a summer teaching and research assistant, and in whose Securities Regulation course he was currently enrolled—to serve as his advisor. Spacone admits he was initially skeptical, because Omshehe had little prior experience with securities law. “However, he quickly mastered enough of the subject…, securities regulations, , " he said. “My parents escaped from Iran and sought refuge in California after the Iranian Revolution. As a first-generation Iranian American, I did not grow up with any understanding of securities laws other than what I saw in movies like ‘Wall Street’ with Michael Douglas. Professor Spacone was not exactly thrilled to hear this, but I think he would tell you, as most who know me would, that I…
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