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Princeton - Princeton Paul Ominsky, director of public safety at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and Hampshire College, has been named director of public safety at Princeton University.

A new study from the University of Sheffield has found that sperm donation levels in the UK are so low that women are resorting to DIY insemination kits and sourcing sperm from abroad in order to have a baby. According to the review, carried out by Dr Allan Pacey from the Department of Human Metabolism, a major reason for this is because of a change in the law in 2006 which removed donor´s anonymity.

We have a lot for which to thank Charles Townes, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of physics and 1964 Nobel Laureate in physics.

January 05, 2010 — Coral Gables — Ed Morgan will be a Visiting Research Fellow for the Spring semester at the University of Miami Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Judaic Studies.

Argentina has come top of a ranking of nation states according to their ratification of the world?s principle international treaties on human rights, humanitarian law and international crimes.

UCL graduate research students in the faculties of Arts & Humanities, Laws and Social & Historical Sciences are invited to enter the Graduate School review competition.

The UCLA campus will host four days of theater, music, lectures and panel discussions in honor of this year's bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.

October 20, 2009 — Coral Gables — Distinguished Professor on the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law Susan Haack has recently published a research paper entitled, "Irreconcilable Differences? The Troubled Marriage of Science and Law.

October 15, 2009 — Coral Gables — University of Miami Law Professor Anthony V. Alfieri has recently authored an essay titled, "Discovering Identity in Civil Procedure" that explores the story of Floride Norelus, an undocumented Haitian immigrant.

William Shakespeare's characters could be described as "adulterous," "depraved," "scandalous" and "miraculous," but the Bard himself did not use those words until they appeared in a 1603 English translation of the works of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne.

September 22, 2009 — Coral Gables — The University of Miami School of Law announces the establishment of the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Center.

Whether it is an Oscar-winning turn from Kate Winslet in 'The Reader', Jack Nicholson chewing up the oak-panelled scenery in 'A Few Good Men', or a John Grisham page-turner by the swimming pool, the nation loves a good legal thriller.

For this year's participants in UCLA's annual summer Shakespeare program in England, the blog's the thing.

Cambridge, Mass. July 29, 2009 - New research from Harvard University traces the history of how human resource managers, not legislatures or courts, have defined equal opportunity and anti-discrimination policies in the workplace.

A new wave of playwrights will see their work come to life on stage on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th June from 11am to 4.30pm when the plays they have written as part of the University of Birm

Law professor Richard L. Kaplan says the rise in so-called family caregiver agreements is far from a groundswell, and most people still bristle at the notion of being paid to care for parents or other relatives who may have once cared for them.

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The Supreme Court recently halted implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, the flagship climate change program for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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BERKELEY — The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Berkeley Law) and UCLA School of Law today announced the launch of a new blog, Legal Planet, which provides insight and analysis on climate change, energy, and environmental law and policy.

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Issues related to race and home ownership will be examined at the "Race and Real Estate" conference scheduled for Thursday through Saturday, March 5-7, in various locations on campus.

Imagine this: You've missed two mortgage payments. You come home from work and realize someone changed the locks on your front door and installed a lockbox on the doorknob.