Month: March 2010

Over at Volokh, in the comment feed on a post made by my colleague Jon Adler about banning laptops on the classroom, Simon Karpen posted the following comment: "As a…

In my last post, I shared a few highlights of the people and places I encountered last week in Vancouver.  As I mentioned, the official purpose of my trip was…

Heard of PayPal?  Sure.What about Twitpay?  Zong?  Square?  GetGiving?  Hub Culture?  No?Readers may find fascinating the cover story in the March 2010 issue of Wired magazine (cover pictured in part),…

As I noted a few days ago, Franklin Pierce Law Dean John Hutson has been working hard to engineer a merger between Pierce and the University of New Hampshire.  The…

We've gotten used to new law schools here in the U.S.  I'm particularly proud to have been one of the six inaugural faculty at a darn good one here in…

As I mentioned earlier, I was in Vancouver over spring break, giving a lecture on corporate board diversity, meeting some UBC faculty, and just generally hanging about.  I spent several…

Just what we needed: a new law school ranking!  But this time, it's along an entirely different metric.  In a new article, Roger Skalbeck of Georgetown Law ranks law school…

It looks like Kaplan Education is searching for a new dean.  As I was trolling through the Chronicle of Higher Ed today, I came up on a job posting for…

Students organized a drive to invite Chief Justice John Roberts to deliver the Butler University commencement address.  The faculty senate, however, voted against inviting him. From the Indianapolis Star story:…

Professor Charles Clotfelter, from Duke's Sanford School Public Policy, has been studying the effects of NCAA March Madness on research activity.  He focused on levels of JSTOR research activity on…