Month: April 2009

Would you hire Dwight K. Schrute?  A new study suggests you should.Academics at BYU, Northwestern, and Stanford have co-authored an article entitled Is the Pain Worth the Gain? The Advantages…

Federal district judge John Bates (District of Columbia) ruled today (Thursday) that two Yemenis and a Tunisian have a right to challenge their imprisonment at a U.S. military air base…

This just in, from the incredibly media-savvy Court Communications Officer at Iowa Supreme Court. The Court will hand down a decision in an important gay marriage case, Varnum v. Brien,…

  Lots of law professor administration news this afternoon.  Larry Ponoroff, the dean of Tulane University law school has been selected the new dean at the University of Arizona James…

Ask yourself this: should a good judge exhibit open mindedness?  A commitment to equal justice? Compassion?  There's an awful good case to be made that most of us - including…

OK - so this is me just being frivolous because I can see the end of the semester in sight. I've always been both amused and irritated by all those…

Paul Caron notes, today, that faculty who are off teaching at other colleges and universities face certain tax consequences.  Some are good, some are bad.  But because they are all predictable,…

Qualcomm, a pioneer in wireless telecommunications research and development, has announced that it has created "device-free, state-of-the-art wireless technology in your hand -- allowing you to have mobile access anytime,…

Taking advantage of a little-used loophole in NCAA regulations, Brooklyn Law School has just announced that it will be fielding a Division 1 basketball squad, starting only 18 months from…