Month: March 2009

Leave it to the IRS to offer a creative incentive plan aimed at putting more money in the federal collection plate.Individuals with offshore accounts must file a Report of Foreign…

There is an interesting dialogue going on at the Volokh Conspiracy over the value, and costs, of new hiring norms in law schools.  By way of background, Corey Yung at Co-Op pointed ...

The bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas.   Probably the most popular species is the lupinus texensis.  Blossoms are deep blue, and often hundreds or even thousands bloom next to ...

The WSJ  had an interesting essay by Nathan Koppel the other day about whether folks should hide from this dreadful economy by attending law school.  The author's verdict: maybe.  (And this suggests that…

We're sweating towards the finish line in hiring this year, and we've again updated the 2009 lateral move list here.    Wondering what happened last year?  That list is here.  Suffering…

President Obama is scheduled to deliver commencement addresses at Arizona State, Notre Dame, and the U.S. Naval Academy.  Guess which one has stirred up some protests.Story here.

After reading Tim Z's post, I just had to write my own - as a colleague dared me to share this (although to be precise, he dared me to write…

Many of us have submitted manuscripts to law journals this month.  I’m looking for good homes for two articles.  (Student editors, call me please!  Yes, my titles refer to the…

In what is seen as the most significant law school news story in several generations, NYU Law School has unexpectedly launched a hostile takeover of Harvard and Yale Law Schools.  For the…

The Georgetown Law Journal's got a nice little debate in its most recent issue, with Pierre Schlag declaring that: "American legal scholarship today is dead—totally dead, deader than at any ...