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Mark Grunewald (right), a law professor at Washington and Lee University since 1976, will become interim dean on July 1.
The current dean, Rodney A. Smolla, is leaving to become president of Furman University in Greenville, S.C.
A graduate of Emory University and George Washington University law school, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review, Grunewald [...]

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A trial advocacy team from the University of Virginia has accomplished what the school’s football team could not .  It defeated William & Mary.
U.Va. here duly notes the fine achievement of its four-member mock trial team in taking the win at the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Regional Tournament in Washington D.C. [...]

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Corporate governance policy is the focus of an award-winning paper written by associate professor Christopher Bruner at the Washington & Lee law school.
Bruner was named the winner of the Association of American Law Schools 2010 Scholarly Papers Competition, for his paper “Power and Purpose in the ‘Anglo-American’ Corporation,” according to press release from the law [...]

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A new law review at the College of William & Mary will deal with business law issues.
According to a press release from the law school, the first issue of the student-edited William & Mary Business Law Review will be published in the spring.

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U.Va. law student Leo Wolpert will start his second year with a big grin and a fat wallet.
The former professional poker player won a World Series of Poker event in Las Vegas last month, pocketing $652,000 in winnings, according to the law school.  Wolpert is living in Sin City for the summer, interning with the [...]

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Starting this fall, the University of Virginia law school will offer a clinic designed to help low-income families resolve legal issues through mediation or other options outside of a courtroom.
According to a press release from the law school, the Family Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic will partner with the Mediation Center of Charlottesville and focus primarily [...]

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The New York Times notes recent pronouncements by the outspoken justice, including an analysis of law clerk recruitment.
While visiting the American University law school, ranked 45th in the country, Justice Scalia took a question from a student who wanted to know what she had to do to become “outrageously successful” without “connections and elite degrees.”
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There’s a wealth of information about the achievements and advancements of law professors as the school year comes to an end.
We note that the University of Virginia law school has snagged Saikrishna Prakash, a prominent constitutional law scholar, who will start in the fall.  Prakash is currently the Herzog Research Professor of Law at [...]

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The George Mason University law school has introduced a new specialty concentration in homeland and national security law.
According to a press release on the school’s Web site, students interested in the field are required to take six courses: Administrative Law, Homeland Security Law, and National Security Law, plus three elective courses selected from a list [...]

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How do you follow Chuck Norris as a graduation speaker?  Liberty University this year will go with actor, writer and economist Ben Stein.
The former presidential speechwriter — who came to fame in 1986 as Ferris Bueller’s economics teacher — has stirred controversy recently with a movie that disputes the theory of evolution.
The News & Advance [...]

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