Month: May 2009

The Chicago Tribune is reporting, or should I say crowing,  that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will be increasing the number of elevator inspectors.  This move comes in response to a…

I am indebted to Prof Patricia Sanchez Abril for recently drawing my attention to the British High Court decision in Max Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd (July 2008).  This ...

This news from the Chronicle that LSU Press may lose its funding from the LSU system (which is in the neighborhood of $100,000 per year) is particularly hard because I was…

From the New York Times, we learn that Sonia Sotomayer: Would not be reflexively liberal or "results-oriented" but would adhere to the law and the Constitution. That's good.  Because I…

I shouldn't be surprised (and I should have been more skeptical in this post) that newspaper reporters captured an incomplete picture of the FIU dean search in news accounts today.  As…

The Cardozo Law Review's on-line companion, de novo, is up, with an inaugural essay by Judge Jack Weinstein, "Preliminary Reflections on Administration of Complex Litigations."De Novo has a broad mandate.   The…

Here's some more sobering news.  According to the Harvard Crimson, staff cuts are impending at Harvard Law School in the wake of a 10% budget cut at the law school.…

Most of us have seen sausage prodcued at our own institutions, but as a result of Florida's sunshine laws, we can watch it made at Florida International University law school…

Have you been thinking that downtown Rochester, New York needs a law school?   If so, here's some good news.  St. John Fisher College may be willing to step up…

From a press release from the Tenth Circuit today, comes this important news:Circuit Judge Michael W. McConnell, 53, of Salt Lake City, Utah, has submitted his resignation from the bench, effective…