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News & Notes

School of Law hosts 2013 Carolinas LRW Colloquium
Almost 60 legal research and writing faculty members from law schools across North and South Carolina visited USC Law on Friday, May 17 to take part in the Carolinas Legal Research and Writing Colloquium, learning the latest developments in teaching LRW courses, and exchanging ideas about best practices.
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Class of 2013 graduation photos now available
Photographs from the School of Law's May 10 graduation ceremony are now available online. You can view/download individual photos of graduates walking the stage here, and the group photo here. Additional photos from the ceremony are available on Flickr site, or you can share, tag and like from our Facebook page.
Serbia's anti-corruption efforts fall short of the rule of law
In an op-ed that appeared in the Global Post, Associate Professor of Law Joel Samuels writes that while Serbia's crackdown on corruption is a step in the right direction, its methods do not adhere to the rule of law.
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Advice to plaintiffs' lawyers post-Dukes v. Wal-Mart
Associate Professor of Law Joseph Seiner was recently interviewed by Thomson Reuters about his upcoming article in the University of Notre Dame Law Review, titled "Weathering Wal-Mart," which suggests three potential paths to circumvent the limits of the Dukes ruling.
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South Carolina's "Stand Your Ground" Law
In an interview with WLTX, Associate Professor of Law Kenneth Gaines explains how South Carolina's "stand your ground" law works. The law is being used as the defense in the double murder trial of Brett Parker.
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The implications of Miranda's "public safety exception"
Associate Professor of Law Wadie E. Said was a guest on HuffPost Live yesterday, discussing the "public safety exception" to the Miranda rights, and its potential impact on the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the people allegedly behind the Boston Marathon bombs. Watch Said's interviews here and here.