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...response, the Law School announced that professors who teach classes with more than 30 students will be allowed to award Dean’s Scholar Prizes—a distinction that is intended to replace the A+ in the previous grading system...
Since the departure of former Law School Dean Elena Kagan for the Obama Administration, the school has moved forward with its grading reforms under Jackson, the acting dean...
Still, concerns remain that the new grading policy may not achieve its stated goal of tempering the grade-focused culture at the law school...
...live in China. Meanwhile, he devoted himself to the human rights efforts that would become the subject of his book. “You can be imprisoned in China for simply feeding a North Korean refugee,” Kim said to an audience in Pound Hall at the Law School last night, highlighting what he called “one of the worst human rights crises in the world”—the situation facing North Koreans fleeing their country. Kim said that he first learned about the human rights issues in the North Korean border region...
...Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (in a lawsuit about human-rights violations in the Philippines) and the U.N., on multiple occasions. Nonetheless, the Justice Department memos concluded that the use of prolonged sleep deprivation "cannot be expected to cause 'severe mental pain or suffering,' " as defined by U.S. criminal law...