Month: May 2009

According the New Jersey Law Journal, Rutgers is prohibiting Sheryl Mintz Goski, an adjunct professor, from continuing her gig teaching international mediation at Rutgers-Newark Law School because she represents a company in…

As the summer conference season begins, and I sit in a hotel room in Chicago, I wanted to confess to some of the guilty pleasures that go hand in hand…

Skadden Arps welcomed their summer associates this week.  According to ATL, there was a lot of anxiety in this summer class as they learned that offers would be forthcoming to those workers ...

Say this about the folks at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law: they're a practical bunch.  Every law school wants to make it easy for students to move…

As I'm sitting here doing a little work on things antebellum, I see the sad news that David Herbert Donald has passed away.  Just so happens that his charming Lincoln is…

David Epstein, a senior member of the Southern Methodist law faculty (as well as the  former dean at Emory and Arkansas and a former colleague of mine at Alabama)  is moving to…

Err, that's President Obama's mother's next book.  The Duke Chronicle is reporting that Duke University Press--well known for its anthropology books--will publish a revised version of Ann Dunham's dissertation.From the…

Over at Co-Op, Kaimi Wenger's polling about readers' knowledge of events during the Jim Crow era. 

Via Paul Caron.

The Obama administration has been tantalizing us with suggestions that there are as-yet unidentified candidates for the David Souter Supreme Court seat.  We've heard of a ton of usual and…