Month: April 2009

Last fall I blogged a little bit about Geoffrey Stone's  "The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?", which appeared in the UCLA Law Review (thanks to a pointer from our…

Well, the alternatives to US News keep proliferating.  Yesterday we had Dan Filler's post on Judge Pollak's most recent rankings in the Drexel Law Review.  Some years ago J. Gordon ...

We held our last faculty meeting of the semester this week.  One agenda item that generated robust  debate was the idea of offering a “bounty” for scholarship placement.  For example,…

Amidst all the talk of US News' law school rankings, we might forget that US News ranks other programs--including, this year, history departments.  Here's a link to them.  The history…

It isn't every day that the New York Times puts Greensboro Alabama on the front page!  Here's a charming story on Walker Evans' photographs of rural Alabama, which he made for…

Larry Solum has updated his 2009 Entry Level Hiring Report, and it's got a new address: find it here.  

Richard Danziger received a life sentence in 1990 for the aggravated sexual assault of a Pizza Hut employee who was raped and murdered in 1988.  Several years later, new DNA…

We now know who will be involved in the search for a replacement for Dean Harold Koh.  This from the Yale Daily News:Law professor Paul Kahn GRD ’77 LAW ’80…

Add this to the flow of faculty to (and periodically ebb from) the Obama Administration.  Phil Weiser, of the University of Colorado School of Law, will be joining the U.S.…

Yesterday I noted the release of the first issue of the Drexel Law Review.  What I didn't mention was that Judge Pollak, the Inaugural Chair of Drexel Law's Visiting Committee ...