Month: February 2010

Posted on behalf of John Doyle (Washington & Lee) re recent LexOpus policy change for law review submissions: "http://lexopus.wlu.edu has changed its policy on simultaneous submissions. Authors can select as…

Today's question comes courtesy of Lance McMillian (pictured), an associate professor at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School.  Readers following our "Oscar Countdown" may have noticed that Lance knows a thing…

a I confess that I know absolutely nothing about French criminal law, but I was shocked -- and not in the Claude Rains way -- to learn from Brian Leiter (and…

Recently, a class action lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of California alleging a series of privacy law violations against Facebook.  It's an interesting action for all the claims…

Today's question:  Several films have earned two Best Actor nominations (e.g., Network (1976), Giant (1956), From Here to Eternity (1953), and Going My Way (1944), among others).  Name a film…

From this article in today's Houston newspaper:"... the Pepperdine law school vaulted up more than 150 spots in the U.S. News and World Report rankings during his tenure ..."Really?  One…

Peter Hoffer's A Nation of Laws: America's Imperfect Pursuit of Justice has just crossed my desk.  It's a terrific, short introduction to American legal history.  What I think distinguishes this…

Liberty University Law Review's  recent symposium  - Homosexual Rights and First Amendment Freedoms: Can They Truly Coexist? - may not be everyone's cup of tea.  It featured a variety of panels,…

Concordia University, based in Portland, Oregon, is continuing its efforts to establish a new law school in Boise, Idaho.  Last month, the school reached an initial agreement to buy a…

Updating the post from this morning, here's a link to Baylor's announcement and a link to Pepperdine's announcement.I guess Dan will be adding another law school to his "dean search"…