Month: March 2010

The Pepperdine Law Review is hosting a symposium on April 16th, 2010 entitled, "Does the World Still Need United States Tort Law? Or Did it Ever?" The symposium will examine…

Today's question (an idea triggered by Lance's question earlier this week):  name the films in which these ten quotes are heard.  Each film received a Best Picture nomination (and a…

All is fine at Citigroup.  Just those pesky short-sellers causing trouble again.             See: Citigroup Woes Due to Short Selling, Says Chief And no need to worry about Greece anymore,…

We've previously found links to faculty compensation numbers for professors at William and Mary.  Those links disappeared.  But here's a fresh one - showing comprehensive instructor pay data for the…

Updated 3/5/10 and moved to the top When a law school wants to bring in an experienced professor to visit - simply to cover a few classes - it can…

Over at Morse Code, Bob Morse -- US News' rankings guru -- is asking for assistance in developing US News' diversity measure for law schools.  This is in response to the…

Today's question, courtesy of Jacqui Lipton:This year, two science fiction movies have been nominated for Best Picture - District 9 and Avatar.  It is very unusual for a science fiction…

In Peter Tague's criminal law class yesterday, he shared the secret that Chief Justice John Roberts planned to resign.  His apparent goal: to teach around the issue of the reliabilty…

Southern Illinois University School of Law has successfully completed its dean search, naming Cynthia Fountaine to the post effective this summer.  Fountaine is a professor at Texas Wesleyan School of…

I'm off to Vancouver to give a talk next week, Narratives of Diversity in The Corporate Boardroom, sponsored by The National Centre for Business Law at the University of British Columbia.…