Month: August 2010

 I just came across this letter to the editor in Tuesday’s FT from my former colleague, John Orth: Have the Greeks got what it takes? Published: August 3 2010 03:21…

Two days ago (Wednesday) marked the AALS deadline for inclusion of a FAR form in the first distribution.  But before we turn our attention to those who are seeking a…

The tax man cometh.  Is it time to file a bankruptcy petition?Story here.   Gotta love the concluding quote!

The wonderful Limericks Économiques (Poems On The Dismal Science Of Economics By Dr. Goose) has the following limerick on the Dodd-Frank bill, making the point far more entertainingly than I…

It looks like the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University will be going into a dean search pretty soon.  Their current dean, Geoffrey Mearns, who has been acting…

Effective next June, John Douglass will end his term as Dean at the University of Richmond School of Law.  Dean Richmond will have been in the post for four years,…

 Mary Dudziak's post on Martha Minow's In Brown's Wake reminds me that this is going to be a busy fall for reading.   Other books from the fall catalogs that I'm…

Yesterday a Fifth Circuit panel (judges Emilio Garza, Carolyn King, and Patrick Higginbotham) heard arguments in a case that addresses whether the consideration of race by the University of Texas…

It's August.  You haven't finished the article.  You haven't prepped the class.  Summer is almost over and you're not sure how it happened.  Is this the time to focus?  Is…

Two letters to President Obama -- one from 140 professors and another from 162 former students -- have joined the calls  for the appointment of Elizabeth Warren as the first director of the Bureau of…