Month: March 2009

Need a reminder that we live in the greatest country in the world?An Afghan student journalist was arrested in 2007, accused of authoring and distributing an article discussing the role…

Last week, discussing the looming crisis for state sponsored 529 plans that offer prepaid tuition, I predicted that state universities would start to feel pressure to hold down tuitions.  After…

Do you believe:1) that absolute moral truth exists?2) the Bible is completely accurate in all of the principles it teaches?3) Satan is a real being or force, not merely symbolic?4)…

As Rick Garnett reports over at Prawfs, the AALS section on Constitutional Law is holding its second annual Steven G. Gey Call for Papers.   There are panel details over at…

Last week I suggested that the potent stigma preventing layoffs at top-shelf firms was melting away.  Thinking about the Latham & Watkins layoffs, I wrote: Latham is so large and…

Politics in Alabama is rough stuff.  And so is law.  Governor Don Siegelman went to jail on corruption charges for conduct that is at most a tick or two beyond…

The 2009 law faculty lateral hiring list has been freshly updated here.  And Larry Solum has now posted his first version of the entry level law faculty hiring list here. …

A10th Circuit panel (judges Deanell Reece Tacha, David M. Ebel, and Harris L. Hartz) is hearing oral arguments today in American Athiests, et al. v. Duncan, et al. , to…

Professor Andrew McClurg holds the Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence in Law at The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.  Some readers may know him through his…

I was having lunch with some colleagues the other day (they know who they are) and we got to talking about how much professorial puffery to include in cover letters…