Month: September 2010

From an email that I received this week:Gonzaga University School of Law seeks applications for the newly established Donald Curran and VaLena Scarpellli Curran Professor of Legal Ethics.  The purpose of this…

Kenneth Davis, who has served as the Dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Law since 1997, is stepping down in September 2011.  He will return to the faculty. …

Unlike many of my colleagues, I commenced my U.S. academic career after the U.S. News started ranking law schools so I have no memory of a time before the rankings. …

Those of us who have served in the past on dean search committees have probably spent a lot of time thinking about what the school wants in a new dean…

You're on the faculty appointments committee this year, and you're plowing through the AALS FAR forms.  You find a candidate who expresses great interest in teaching one or more courses…

Andrew Yaphe of Stanford Law School has posted "‘Reputation, Reputation, Reputation’: Fred Rodell, Felix Frankfurter, and the Reproduction of Hierarchy in the Unlikeliest of Places" on ssrn. I'm a huge…

It's my pleasure to announce that my good friend Dan Hamilton of the University of Illinois Law School is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a…

What comes to mind when you see the domain name, mlb.com?Major League Baseball?  That's who owns the domain name now.Morgan Lewis & Bockius?  That's who initially registered the domain name.For…

This really should be part of my series, you known you live in a university town when ... one of our nation's most distinguished legal historians speaks on the local…

This week we offer a two-fer:The first question comes from friend, current Lounge guest, and Suffolk law prof, Jeff Lipshaw:On September 14, 1968, Denny McLain won his 30th game for…