San Diego assistant dean wins $1 million wrongful firing award

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Former University of San Diego law school asst dean Marilyn L. Young on Feb 24, 1995, won a $1 million verdict against the school for wrongful termination. Her contract was not renewed in 1993 following her blowing the whistle on bizarre items in the expense report of law school Dean Kristine Strachan. The school argued that Young acted improperly, but the firing followed 10 years of exemplary ratings. Young initially named Strachan as a co-defendant, but dropped her from the suit just before the trial began.

Cases, California, Employee dismissals, Employment terminations, Employment at will, Deans (in schools), Deans (Education), University of San Diego. School of Law

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Yale's dean Calabresi attempts a wider definition of diversity

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Guido Calabresi, dean of Yale Law School, offered a new conception of diversity in which racial, ethnic and gender diversity, or 'personal characteristic diversity,' was only one of eight categories of diversity considered in faculty hiring. Calabresi, speaking in a seminar at the Association of American Law Schools 1992 meeting, listed age, teaching/scholarship, subject matter, theory/practice, approach to law, and ideology as other categories in which standards are sometimes bent to fulfill needs.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Calabresi, Guido, American Association of Law Schools

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Legendary former Yale dean takes on New York challenge

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Harry H. Wellington is retiring after 36 years as dean of the Yale law School and assuming the deanship of the New York Law School on July 1, 1992. He states that he likes to build things and hopes to make a larger contribution there. He feels that New York Law School has a good young faculty and hopes to increase the number of students who are accepted there but go to other schools.

Practice, Wellington, Harry H., New York Law School

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