Month: February 2010

Today's question:  name any of the three films which captured acting nominations for each/every cast member who had a speaking part.Pictured:  All About Eve (1950), which earned a record-tying five…

Northwestern Law School was pleased by the recent National Law Journal report that showed that it was the #1 law school in the U.S. in terms of placing students at…

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 Professor Daniel Jutras, an expert in civil and comparative law - and the current interim dean - has been named permanent dean of the law school at McGill University.  Jutras…

Below is a guest post from Mitu Gulati (Duke, law):In the wake of the recent drama in the sovereign debt world in Greece, Dubai, Iceland and elsewhere, memories of the…

Today's question comes courtesy of  Garrett Levin (pictured), an associate in the D.C. office of Jenner & Block.  Readers following our "Oscar Countdown" may have noticed that Garrett knows a…

Rethinking Juvenile Justice, by Columbia Univesity Professor Elizabeth Scott (Law) and Temple University Professor Laurence Steinberg (Psychology), has been awarded the 2010 Social Policy Best Authored Book Award from the…

Today's question:  name a person who has won both an Oscar award and a Nobel prize.Pictured: The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), which brought Helen Hayes the Best Actress Oscar. …

On June 20th, 1832, Justice WIlliam Gaston entered Gerard Hall on the University of North Carolina campus (picture at right) to deliver an address to a joint meeting of the…

As readers know, Rod Smolla will leave the helm at W&L as of July 1. He is headed to Furman. The law school has announced that senior faculty member Mark…