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- Politics
- Axios
Philly picks design for new Sadie Alexander statue
Philadelphia has selected the winning design for a statue of civil rights activist Sadie Alexander. Driving the news: Vinnie Bagwell's design — "Philadelphia's First Lady of the Law: Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander" — will stand in Center City's Thomas Paine Plaza beside the Municipal Services Building, the city announced Wednesday. A city committee considered five semifinalist designs. Catch up quick: Alexander, born in 1898, was a Philadelphian who broke barriers in academia and law. She was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in economics in the U.S., and the first Black woman to graduate from Penn's Law School. Plus: She was a founding member of Philly's Commission on Human Relations and the first Black woman to serve as the city's assistant solicitor. Flashback: The city launched its plans for a statue of Alexander late last year. It's one of Mayor Cherelle Parker's long-time goals. Parker pitched the idea of a statue for Alexander in 2018 when she was city legislator, which ultimately fizzled out at the time. Zoom in: Bagwell's bronze Alexander statue will be finished with a black patina and stand 9 feet tall. It depicts Alexander the moment after she graduates from Penn, wearing a graduation robe and a straw hat adorned with flowers. Alexander holds a book on the U.S. Constitution, which is opened to the Fourteenth Amendment. The pedestal will include her quote: "The future of our nation depends upon our willingness to uphold democracy and justice for all." What they're saying: "My subjects have souls, and they're meant to be engaged," Bagwell said in a news release. Zoom out: Two more statues dedicated to historic Black women are in the works for Philly.
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The University of Iowa's College of Law has promoted its interim dean. What to know
The University of Iowa has named a new College of Law dean nearly a year after initiating a nationwide search. Longtime faculty member and current interim dean of the College of Law, Todd Pettys, will continue to lead the school for the next two years. The university plans to launch a national search for his successor before Pettys' term expires in 2027. Pettys has worked for the University of Iowa since 1999 and holds the H. Blair and Joan V. White Chair in Civil Litigation. He has been the interim dean of the school since Jan. 1. He was the college's associate dean for faculty from 2011 to 2015. Pettys has earned numerous honors for his expertise in constitutional law, federal courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court and is also an elected member of the American Law Institute. More: Group protests ICE in Cedar Rapids in show of solidarity with Los Angeles demonstrations 'While serving as interim dean of the College of Law, Todd has demonstrated strong, collaborative leadership that has guided the college through a seamless transition,' said Kevin Kregel, executive vice president and provost, in a news release. 'After conversations with many in the college, it became clear that Todd's deep institutional knowledge, national reputation, and commitment to the Iowa Law community make him the right person to lead at this time.' In December, the University of Iowa announced that it had "temporarily suspended" its nationwide search for a new dean. Former dean Kevin Washburn announced his resignation in May 2024. Washburn is still a part of the UI faculty and has led the college since 2018. More: University of Iowa eyes big upgrades like $28M tech lab renovation, medical campus water tower The university identified three finalists: Rebecca Ernst Zietlow, interim dean of the University of Toledo in Ohio; Melissa Mortazavi, the presidential professor of law at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma; and Lumen (Lou) N. Mulligan, dean and professor of law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. 'I am humbled by the opportunity to continue leading Iowa Law during this important time,' said Pettys in a news release. 'I look forward to working with our extraordinary community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni to build on our strengths and continue moving the college forward.' The university said it needs more time to decide on a full-time dean. (This article has been updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) Jessica Rish is an entertainment, dining and education reporter for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. She can be reached at JRish@ or on X, formerly known as Twitter, @rishjessica_ This article originally appeared on Iowa City Press-Citizen: UI College of Law promotes Todd Pettys to dean through 2027
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Has Harvard actually found the Magna Carta?
Imagine you bring along to the Antiques Roadshow a scuffed piece of parchment covered in writing in Latin so faded that you find it impossible to decipher the letters. You confess that your grandparents paid £20 for it at an auction way back in 1946. It is then revealed, at that awkward moment when members of the public are told that their prized chipped mug from the coronation of George VI is only worth £5, that your parchment is actually a copy of Magna Carta worth £16,000,000. Scuffed items sometimes do well on that programme. Rolex watches are a case in point, reaching into the tens of thousands. They have in a sense become a reserve currency for the very rich, without being particularly elegant in appearance and despite (even because of) all the knocks and bruises they have received. Then there was a poverty-stricken man living in a shack in California who was inspired by the American equivalent of Antiques Roadshow to take a filthy Navajo blanket his mother thought might fetch ten dollars to an auction house, which sold it for $1,500,000. A Chinese bowl from around AD 1000, bought at an American garage sale for $3, fetched $2,200,000 in the sale rooms. The only one like it is in the British Museum. This time, though, the proud owner of a text of Magna Carta is the Law School at Harvard University, by far the richest university in the world, even after President Trump has taken away a great slice of its research funding. Even so, Harvard probably will not need to sell it. And in any case – this is where things turn awkward – it isn't actually an original from 1215, but a copy made after its re-issue in 1300, apparently in 1327. It was most probably sent all the way to a remote corner of Westmorland, its former county town of Appleby, which for centuries had the right to send two members to the House of Commons. Indeed, one of the features that led two eminent scholars, David Carpenter at King's College London and Nicholas Vincent at the University of East Anglia, to identify it was that it begins with a large E, which stands not for King John, obviously enough, but for King Edward I who had re-issued the charter amid political ructions less acute than those that tore England apart nearly a century earlier under King document survived among the papers of the great abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, whose campaigns against the slave trade have lately achieved the ultimate accolade of being sneered at in a tendentious exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge about the abolition of the slave trade with the rousing title Rise Up! Resistance, Revolution, Abolition. Clarkson would have seen Magna Carta as support for his entirely admirable convictions. However, most of the liberties of which Magna Carta speaks are not quite what we think of as liberties, and only four clauses remain on the Statute Book to this day, but they are fundamental to our principles of government. The most memorable is 'to no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice.' Even in our own day we may wonder whether these clauses have only been honoured in the breach. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Bloomberg
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Bloomberg Law:Threats to Habeas Corpus & 'Diddy' Trial
Constitutional law expert Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University Law School, discusses the Trump administration talking about suspending the writ of habeas corpus. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs. June Grasso hosts.
Business Mayor
22-04-2025
- Business
- Business Mayor
Thompson launches The Common Wealth podcast for Community Enterprise Clinic to explore urban issues – U-M Detroit
By: Bob Needham Source: Law School Dana Thompson A new podcast from the Community Enterprise Clinic ( CEC ) highlights work being done by the clinic's clients as well as issues they and others face in community building. Called The Common Wealth , the podcast is produced and hosted by Professor Dana Thompson, '99, the director of the CEC and an expert on community economic development and urban revitalization issues. The clinic, which represents community organizations and small businesses in Detroit and other disinvested urban areas, is producing the podcast in partnership with the University of Michigan Detroit Center. 'Not a lot of people are talking about community development, the tools that are being used to improve communities, and whether those tools are working or not—and they're incredibly important issues,' said Thompson, who is also director of the Transactional Law Clinics Program and founding director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic. 'Since we are doing the work and we have these relationships, I thought this would be a great idea for a podcast.' Continuing reading… Back to News + Stories READ SOURCE
