Month: September 2009

Time for some fun and photographs.  Following up on the occasional series from last spring on pictures of antebellum law schools -- Princeton (yes! they once had a law school)…

Via Felix Salmon (created by Stephen Von Worley) a map of the contiguous USA by how far any given point is from the nearest McDonald’s.  “The McFarthest Spot, somewhere in…

From the SEC Historical Society: Audio Webcast on New World of Financial Regulation, moderated by Theresa Gabaldon, The George Washington University Law School, and with presenters Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica; Roberta…

From women.  Video here.  (HT: Chris Bodenner at The Daily Dish) And to think that I still struggle with a simple “look ma, no hands” move.  Of course, I’m not…

From H-Law comes the news that this year has seen the close of the life of another great American historian, Merrill Peterson.  He was an emeritus professor at the University…

Season 15 of The Amazing Race gets underway Sunday night.  As fans of the show may recall, last season's winners of the $1 million prize were siblings Victor and Tammy. …

On behalf of the editors of the Seton Hall Law Review: "The Seton Hall Law Review will be hosting its annual Symposium on October 30, 2009, to address the impact…

We've been talking for a long time about the declining fortunes of academic presses (OUP and CUP had layoffs at the beginning of the year; YUP laid off  staff later…

It's that time of year when deanship transitions begin in earnest.  Now we learn that Mercer's dean, Daisy Hurst Floyd, will be stepping down and returning to the faculty this…

Gary Rosin has a new post, "Do We Need More Law Schools," up at Law by the Numbers, which charts the growth in the number of law schools from the…