Month: November 2009

Garrison Keillor and George Will have penned timely editorials, as we enter the holiday season.  GK's editorial is here.  GW's editorial is here.

Via Larry Solum, Call for Papers: 3rd Annual Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum The Legal History Bloggers would like some help from a Facebook-friendly reader. A few for the holiday: …

SIU is bringing in three finalists for the position of dean of the law school.  They are Richard Bales, Director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy and Professor of…

Today, in a unanimous decision, the Baseball Writers' Association of America named Albert Pujols, of my beloved St. Louis Cardinals, as National League MVP.  This is the third time that ...

 Back in May, I blogged about the coming judicicial clerkship application crush.  I predicted that there would be a surge of applications from those many highly qualified students facing deferred offers…

Paul Caron tells us that Suja Thomas (a law professor at Illinois) has just started a new blog (with her husband Scott Bahr) called The Give Blog: Conscious Living and…

The Daily Tar Heel has the details.  Anthropologists are looking for unmarked graves in the African American section.Most appalling piece of this story is this: [Chapel Hill Preservation Society president Ernest] Dollar said ...

Over at Feminist Law Profs, Bridget Crawford has some excellent tips on “How To Act Busy And Important.”  Of course, she forgot a few: 1.  Make the support staff mark…

From Adjunct Law Prof Blog, via Above the Law, Keefe v. New York Law School, ___Misc. 3d___(N.Y. Co. Nov. 17, 2009): Plaintiff, a current student at New York Law School,…

This year's 32 Rhodes Scholars have been announced and the folks at Auburn, Louisville, and North Carolina are already crowing.  Although the Rhodes site does not yet have the official…