Month: October 2010

Everyone's been working mighty hard of late; lots of serious work going on in the 1L classes and in the faculty offices, too.  And we've had a lot of sad…

It's my pleasure to mention that George William Van Cleve's A Slaveholders' Union is now available from the University of Chicago Press.  From the Press' website: After its early introduction…

I know that Brian Leiter was just having some fun with his internet poll on the top 40 law schools, (with the final results -- what one  might call "the…

Each student in my Crime and Community seminar is responsible for tracking crime news coverage in an individual city and sharing their findings every week on a class blog.   My goal…

Continuing the story that we have been posting on for some time (most recently this post from July 17, 2010):   a judicial panel has ruled that the State Commission on…

Prompted by a comment to a recent open-ended post, I'll offer some personal thoughts, directed at candidates, on interviews at the upcoming AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference. 1.  The hotel layout…

We've previously discussed Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown Law Schools.   Now it appears that Brown Law is a reality - and its got a damn good teaching faculty!  According to this…

Northwestern announced the appointment of Professor Kim Yuracko,  law and feminism scholar and current associate dean, as interim dean of its Law School.  Dorothy Roberts is chairing the search committee.   The committee…

We seem to be well into "dean season" this year with many schools, including my own, going into dean search mode. One question that has always intrigued me - and…

The annual conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities is set for March 11-12, 2011 at UNLV Law.  Submissions are due by October 15 -…