Month: June 2010

Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham and former EPA administrator William Reilly, co-chairs of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, have selected Georgetown law…

Camille A. Nelson, a distinguished legal scholar and professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law, will become dean of Suffolk University Law School, effective Sept. 1, 2010. Nelson…

Today (or really yesterday because of the time difference), Australia appointed its first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.  This was an internal change in the Labor Party ie it was…

From Stanford University Press, a forthcoming series: Global Competition Law and Economics, edited by Ioannis Lianos and D. Daniel Sokol.  From the Stanford Press website: Competition law and economics (known…

Readers with an interest in the Takings Clause and the recent SCOTUS opinion in Stop the Beach Renourishment Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection may wish to read this editorial from…

Sticking my head up from edits on Integrating Spaces, I notice that the summer's really going by.  How do I know this?  Prawfs have put up their call for hiring…

Updating this earlier post:  Mike Lee (son of former Solicitor General Rex Lee and brother of recent Utah Supreme Court nominee (and BYU law prof) Tom Lee) will be the GOP's…

As a mother of a pre-school age summer camper, I was struck this week as I always am by the way teachers refer to meeting "new friends", as in "We…

In my last post, It’s The Culture, Stupid, I noted that a review of the Société Générale scandal reveals a familiar pattern of organizational and departmental change that stressed trading…

It’s that time of year again, already (where has my summer gone?) So, law school hiring chairs for entry and lateral candidates, please announce yourselves over at Prawfs and feel…