{"id":14443,"date":"2011-10-27T08:04:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=14443"},"modified":"2011-10-27T08:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:04:23","slug":"college-of-law-to-host-regional-scholarship-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_27_2011\/college-of-law-to-host-regional-scholarship-conference","title":{"rendered":"College of Law to host regional scholarship conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo College of Law will host the Central States Law Schools Association Annual Scholarship Conference Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, 48 scholars representing 26 schools will present research on a variety of law topics, including criminal procedure, constitutional law, tax law and international law. Nine presenters are UT faculty members.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will begin with a panel discussion titled \u201cTaking Your Scholarship to the Next Level: Books, Commentary, Consulting\u201d at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, with scholarly presentations throughout the day, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 29, in the UT Law Center.<\/p>\n<p>Presenters will include faculty from UT, Ohio State University, the University of Akron, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, the University of North Dakota, Louisiana State University and Phoenix School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great way to show off our faculty and our school,\u201d said Jelani Jefferson Exum, UT associate professor of law and president of the Central States Law Schools Association. \u201cWe have the opportunity to show off the services our school provides in rooms with state-of-the-art technology as well as show off our city. It exposes people who may not necessarily have visited Toledo to our school and city and leaves them with a positive perception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in academic law topics are invited to sit in on discussions during the free, public conference. <\/p>\n<p>The Central States Law Schools Association is a regional organization of law schools dedicated to providing a supportive environment for conversation and collaboration between law academics. The association has approximately 45 member schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 50 law scholars will come to UT for the Central States Law Schools Association Annual Scholarship Conference, which will take place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, in the Law Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}