Month: April 2009

I'm pleased to see that the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law is now out.  I'll have some more thoughts when my copy arrives.

In this tough economic climate, it seems that one can’t pick up the daily newspaper without reading a story on another corporate bankruptcy.  Might automaker General Motors be next?  Last…

Danny Sokol asks the trenchant question of whether, given it's impressive student numbers and faculty productivity, you'd publish an article in the UC Irvine Law Review.  It's an interesting topic,…

Larry Solum's talking about an exciting new program from seven leading law reviews--Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Stanford Law Review,…

The Crimson has the  latest on the Harvard Law School's grading curve and how it awards honors.

This story from the Las Vegas Sun discusses lateral moves by three UNLV law professors, with one or more of the departures prompted (at least in part) by recent state…

The US News rankings of law school specialties appears to be here.  It might fairly be entitled "Trading Places" because the number 1 and 2 ranked schools have switched places in…

The Pulitzer Prize committee has just announced the new prize-winners.  This will be huge news for each of these authors, and their respective publishers.  (Random House picked up two of…

The semester is drawing to a close, final exams are about to begin, and graduation ceremonies will be here soon.  Readers are invited to share the names of law school…

A current issue of a popular news magazine describes me as "a tweedy, brainy legal scholar who writes brilliant law-review articles that are carefully reasoned, if more or less impenetrable…