As part of the National Football Foundation Faculty Salutes Initiative, sponsored by Fidelity Investments®, the NFF recognized Professor Josephine Potuto for her efforts in fostering excellence among the student-athletes as exemplified by 2012 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Rex Burkhead. Continue reading…
Professor Brian Lepard, a recognized expert on tax law, has authored new and revised editions of two of his books, which have been published by Bloomberg BNA. Continue reading…
Professor Steve Bradford recently spoke at the University of Colorado's 2013 Silicon Flatirons Annual entrepreneurship Conference on "The Future of Entrepreneurial Finance." While at Colorado, Bradford also participated in a faculty colloquium on "Recurring Themes in SecuritiesRegulation: The Crowdfunding Exemption." Continue reading…
The 2013 awards banquet will be held Friday, April 5 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts to present awards to alumni, faculty, and a third year student in recognition of outstanding achievement. Continue reading…
Sandra Placzek will be one of a list of key volunteers who will contribute product and direction ideas in the areas of academic research, archive needs, and other legal studies related endeavors on the newly created board. Continue reading…
Professor Jo Potuto spoke last week at the Texas Higher Education Law Conference, a conference held annually for "college and university professionals…and the attorneys who advise them" regarding important legal developments in higher education law. Continue reading…
Professor Beth Burkstrand-Reid's article, "From Sex for Pleasure to Sex for Procreation: How the Law Manufactures Mothers," has been accepted for publication by the Hastings Law Journal, at the University of California Hastings College of Law. Continue reading…
Anna Shavers recently travelled to Mysore, India where she served as a delegate to the International Association of Law Schools (IALS) conference, "The Role of Law Schools and Human Rights." As a delegate, Professor Shavers submitted her paper, "Course Development as the Nexus for Contributing to Human Rights." Continue reading…
Few Americans question that the nation has a gun violence problem. What they do question is why and what can be done about it. Those answers were the focus of "Point Blank: A Conversation about Gun Violence," a two-hour interactive public conversation on March 5 at the Nebraska Union Auditorium. Continue reading…
Professor Christal Sheppard, along with other law professors, submitted an amicus brief in Apple v. Motorola in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Also, Professor Sheppard was quoted in the Wall Street Journal’s article, on the Apple v. Samsung case. Continue reading…
On Tuesday, March 12, Professor Jessica Shoemaker delivered, "No Sticks in My Bundle: The Indian Land Tenure Problem."
The event provides students with the opportunity to engage with faculty in an informal setting, and learn about the speaker's research agenda.
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