Month: August 2010

For the Woodstock crowd, it meant topless women and bad acid.  For law school deans, apparently, it's this. Photo from the SF Chronicle.

I'm pleased to welcome an alum of CWRU Law School, Greg McNeal, who will be blogging with us throughout the month of September.  Greg is on the faculty at Pepperdine…

Is this real?  At a time when law schools are getting heat for being out of touch, this innocent but damning ad appears on Craigslist: Exectutive Chef needed for NYC…

The news today from my old hometown of Tuscaloosa is a lawsuit brought by a couple of former students against the University for requiring students to buy $300 per semester…

It seems like we have these bad weeks, once in a while.  Like last week.  The legal academy lost University of Miami Professor Bruce Winick, the co-founder of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement,  and…

I know a lot of us have been posting lately about Expresso and its impact on the law review submission process in the last few years.  Here's another question that…

 We had orientation last week and I've already met my students and spoken with them some, so I feel like school's begun.  But today is the official start of school…

Today's question comes from Jeff Yates, a professor of political science at Binghamton University (and a recent visitor at Florida State's law school).Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961,…

David Van Zandt (pictured) will be leaving the deanship at Northwestern's law school by the end of the year.  He has been named the next president of The New School…

From an email I received earlier today:THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW invites applications from both entry-level and lateral candidates for three full-time, tenure-track faculty positions to commence in…