Scharf Volunteers as a Mentor at Justice Bridge-Boston’s Grand Rounds

UMass Law Professor Irene Scharf has volunteered over the past three months as an on-site mentor at Justice Bridge-Boston’s Grand Rounds.

Peltz-Steele Authors Book Chapter on Law Teaching in Pop-Culture Age

Professor Rick Peltz-Steele has authored a chapter in a new book, The Media Method: Teaching Law with Popular Culture. Professor Peltz-Steele’s chapter talks specifically about using popular culture as a teaching aid in the 1L Torts class.

UMass Law Adjunct Professor Francomano Receives Mass. Bar Association Volunteer Award

UMass Law Adjunct Professor Patrick Francomano was honored with the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Volunteer Recognition Award. Francomano’s decades of service evidence his belief that lawyers are called to public service as well and that education and social justice are essential to a healthy democracy.

UMass Law first-year student enrollment up 21.5 percent

Overall enrollment now 279, up 50 percent since 2016 as LSAT scores and GPAs also increase

As Free Speech Heads to Mass. High Court, Globe Quotes Peltz-Steele

A free speech defense bound for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) pits the UMass Boston student newspaper and the Massachusetts Attorney General against a plaintiff who claims he was defamed, and The Boston Globe quoted Professor Rick Peltz-Steele to analyze the case in July.

Peltz-Steele Talks Teaching with Pop Culture in Law School

At the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools in Boca Raton, Florida, in July, Professor Rick Peltz-Steele joined a panel of law professors discussing the use of popular culture in legal education. The presenting professors, including Peltz-Steele, are collaborating on a book.

Drew Appointed Chair of ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee and Special Advisor to the ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence

UMass Law Professor Margaret Drew was appointed Chair of the ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee and Special Advisor to the ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence.

UMass Law and Salem State University Sign Innovative Agreement for Fast Track Law Degree

Salem State students can earn bachelor’s degree and law degree in six years

Peltz-Steele Speaks in Dubai

Professor Rick Peltz-Steele delivered a plenary address at a conference of mass communication scholars in Dubai and attended a global conference of digital human rights advocates in Tunisia.

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