Month: April 2009

Make of them what you will, but these 2010 US News law rankings seem like they may well be real.   They include the Top 100, Evening Programs, and Diversity…

I appreciate all the leads dedicated readers are sending, but it's the end of the semester here in Chapel Hill and I'm absurdly busy.   In fact, I'm drowning in work. …

We learn now that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the apparent mastermind of 9/11,  was waterboarded 183 times.  Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 35 times.  And I can 't help but wonder why…

Today, the Pulitzer committee will announce the winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes.  This year, Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson, and Shakespeare's Kitchen, by Lore Segal, were nominated for…

It started a few years ago.  We discovered that more young people were getting their news from satirical news shows - oh, and late night comedy shows - than from traditional…

No, the gentleman pictured does not claim credit.But he offers his thoughts on the question here.Yeah, but can you tell us what happened to Jimmy Hoffa?  Huh?  Can you?  Didn't…

... but not the economic downturn and its effect at Skadden Arps.  Story here.

James Rasband (pictured) is the new dean at the J. Reuben Clark Law School.  BYU's press release is here.  Rasband clerked for Judge Clifford Wallace (9th Circuit) and worked for…

In March, President Obama nominated David Hamilton, a federal district judge from the Southern District of Indiana, to a seat on the Seventh Circuit.  (White House press release  here.)  Earlier…

Rutgers-Newark decided to go outside the academy to find a replacement for outgoing law dean  Stuart Deutsch.   John Farmer, a founding partner of the law firm Arseneault, Whipple, Farmer,…