PITTSBURGH — Pitt has named a new dean to the School of Law. Professor and Vice Dean Jerry Dickinson will take the position effective Jan. 15, Pitt announced on Thursday. The Pittsburgh native has been with Pitt since 2017 and has served as the vice dean since March 2023.

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Eric Dailey Jr. scored a career high 23 points and UCLA snapped its four-game January losing streak with a 94-70 win over Iowa.

Eric Dailey Jr. scores a career-high 23 points as UCLA builds up a massive lead in the first half to defeat Iowa 94-70 and end a four-game losing streak.

About a third of the New York Legislature supports a reintroduced bill asking Gov. Kathy Hochul to beef up the state loan forgiveness program for public-interest attorneys, public defenders, and district attorneys by $4 million in fiscal 2026.

University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax sued the school for racial discrimination on Thursday, escalating a long-running clash with administrators over her controversial statements on race.

After a long winter break, contributing editor Livia LaMarca reflects on her time waiting for law school applications to arrive in her inbox.

There's a new leader at Albany Law School. The school announced Patrick Wildes will serve as the new director of their Government Law Center.

Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who

the School of Law, the David Geffen School of Medicine, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the UCLA School of Nursing as well as an education school.

The University of Pittsburgh has appointed Professor and Vice Dean Jerry Dickinson as the new dean of the School of Law, effective January 15. Dickinson, a

Ohio-based steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs accused rival U.S. Steel of trying to silence Cliff’s irrepressible CEO Lourenco Goncalves on Friday during a hearing in a lawsuit that alleged a conspiracy between the United Steelworkers union and Cliffs aimed at disrupting U.S. Steel’s $14.9 billion sale to Nippon Steel.