Month: October 2010

A week from today, law school faculty from across the nation will descend on our nation's capital to participate in the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference.  And by noon on Friday,…

Mary Dudziak over at Legal History Blog suggests that a candidate interviewing at the AALS hiring conference in DC might consider drinking Starbucks Via coffee in preparation for interviews.  Before serious…

The Washington Post has a story on a debate between Christine O'Donnell and Christopher Coons at Widener Law School.  There was controversy about Ms. O'Donnell's question, "where in the Constitution…

Today's Tuscaloosa News has a nice story by Tommy Stevenson on a conference, "“Days of Rage: A 40 Years' Perspective," that the University of Alabama is holding on student protests there in…

Most readers are aware that UCC Article 9 permits a lender to perfects its security interest in almost all types of collateral by filing a "financing statement" (also known as…

Congratulations to Steven Lubet on his newly released book, Fugitive Justice.  Details of the book are available on the amazon.com webpage here.

How in the world has ESPN's new facebook game, "ESPNU College Town," escaped comment here so far?   Perhaps because none of us know what it is? This is absolutely…

You may recall Dan's post from last August  that John Douglass will be stepping down from the University of Richmond law school at the end of this academic year. The…

In recent days, Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay became just the seventh player in baseball history to pitch at least two no-hitters in his career, one of which was a "perfect"…

The holiday season will soon be upon us (but let's first get through the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference!).  And thoughts will turn to buying that "perfect" gift for either the…