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Cassandra Robertson, associate professor of law, recently had her paper, “Freedom of Contract in the Market for Professional,” selected for the Freedom of Contract colloquium. Along with the selection, she was awarded $5,000. The paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Boston Universi...

Deep in a former gold mine, scientists hunt for dark matter Los Angeles Times: Graduate student Patrick Phelps is part of the team working on the Large Underground Xenon experiment, or LUX, in an attempt to find evidence of dark matter....

Experts, community ponder T.J. Lane's courtroom antics The Morning Journal: During a hearing, T.J. Lane took off his dress shirt to reveal a T-shirt with the word “killer” written on it, among taking other vulgar actions. Many are questioning why Lane was not handcuffed. “There was probably some in...

The ���ϳԹ��� School of Law’s Judge Ben C. Green Law Library will host a talk taking a look back at the role Wayne Bidwell Wheeler played in a movement that led to the National Prohibition Act of 1919. Wheeler was one of the chief proponents of the 18th Amendment to the United States Con...

How to become a 21st century librarian Library Journal: Brian C. Gray, head of reference and engineering librarian, provides tips to students on becoming a librarian, such as becoming active in related student and professional organizations and attending workshops outside of school....

March Madness has begun, and there’s one person on campus who knows exactly what that excitement is like. Chris Masotti, vice dean for finance and administration at the School of Medicine, played for the Villanova Wildcats from 1987 to 1991 and played in the NCAA Tournament three of those four years...

All members of the ���ϳԹ��� community are invited to attend a talk with Michael Benza, senior instructor of law, Friday, March 22. Benza’s talk, titled “A View from the Death House,” will give an inside look at the complex issues surrounding capital punishment and executions....

By the time he was 16, Juscelino Colares knew he wanted to be a lawyer when he grew up. The only difference between Colares and many other teenagers with the same dreams? He actually started law school then. Colares grew up in Brazil, where he started college at the age of 16. Law is an undergradua...

���ϳԹ���’s health law program leapt to fifth in the nation and pediatrics climbed to 14th in U.S. News & World Report’s annual graduate and professional school rankings released Tuesday. Those gains, coupled with a seven-point jump, to 30th, for the Weatherhead School of Management’s Par...

For Maxwell Mehlman, everything happens for a reason. Take, for example, his entire career. “Everything that has happened to me was part of a sequence of fortuitous events,” Mehlman said. When Mehlman graduated from law school at Yale University, he headed to Washington, D.C., to practice. He took...