Challenges facing legal education discussed
“Looking Forward: Legal Education in the 21st Century” is the theme of the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools scheduled January 2-5 in New York City.
There will be 140 sessions on legal topics from the most technical to the most topical, including the legal implications of the NSA surveillance, gun regulation and mental illness as well as the Supreme Court’s recent cases on same-sex marriage.
More than 3,000 law teachers, scholars, librarians and administrators from AALS member law schools, non-member schools, and law schools outside the U.S. are expected to attend the meeting.
Speakers will include Jamienne Studley, deputy under secretary of education of the U.S. Department of Education.
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State sees boost from early learning funds
LANSING (AP) — Officials say Michigan has about 182,000 children that will benefit from a $51.7 million in federal funding to improve early learning programs for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Michigan is one of six states announced last week as winners of a combined $280 million from the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge competition.
Gov. Rick Snyder said in a statement “children will be much more successful in school if they have a solid foundation for learning.”
State Superintendent Mike Flanagan says about 182,000 children in Michigan ages 3 to kindergarten entry from low-income families will benefit.
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Challenge to Michigan EM law can go ahead
DETROIT (AP) — A judge overseeing Detroit’s bankruptcy says a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s emergency manager law can go forward.
Judge Steven Rhodes was asked to reconsider a November decision, but he said recently that ruling will stand.
He also says Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr is protected no matter what happens in the case.
Critics of the EM law say it’s unconstitutional.
The governor can send a manager into distressed communities, trumping the power of elected officials.
A lawsuit is pending with another judge in Detroit federal court.
Attorney Herbert Sanders says he has plaintiffs across Michigan who want to know if the law is constitutional.
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‘Walking Dead’ creator sues AMC?over profits
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The creator of “The Walking Dead” is suing AMC over what he claims is an effort to deny him tens of millions of dollars in profit from the hit drama.
Oscar-nominated writer-director Frank Darabont (“The Shawshank Redemption,” “The Green Mile”) and Creative Arts Agency filed suit recently in New York Supreme Court against defendants including AMC Network Entertainment LLC.
Their suit claims that despite four seasons of “unprecedented programming success and profitability” for the defendants, Darabont hasn’t received any profits for developing the series.
The lawsuit alleges that AMC decided to produce the series in-house and paid itself a deliberately low license fee to air it, engaging in what the suit labels “the improper and abusive practice of ‘self-dealing.’”
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