Month: November 2010

Our friends from the greatest baseball town in America have posted information on their dean search.  Interested parties should click here.    

Following on my recent Leiter post deconstructing US News law school reputation rankings, Brian has created a Condorcet survey seeking to determine what law professors value when assessing the quality of…

Former United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is in Houston this week to speak at a sold-out public event.  His pre-event interview with Houston Chronicle reporter Mike Tolson…

I have just learned that my alma mater, the University of Melbourne School of Law, has just appointed its first female dean:  Professor Carolyn Evans who is a law and…

From Dan Ariely: A large open room in an old industrial building with three wooden picnic tables lined up end to end in the center of the room. The tattoo…

Sandra Sperino, an employment discrimination scholar who joined the Temple Law faculty in 2008, has accepted a position on the University of Cincinnati faculty starting next fall.  The lateral moves…

A few weeks ago our friends at Brooklyn Law school got creative, sending along a jar of spicy Brooklyn Salsa to potential US News voters as part of their law…

As anyone from Alabama will appreciate, I mean this headline only partially tongue-in-cheek.  It seems that Gene Marsh, an old colleague of mine at Alabama and now an emeritus professor…

In my last two posts  -- Dangerous Categories: Diversity and Stereotypes in the Boardroom and Dangerous Categories II (Wow, Men Are Still From Mars and Women From Venus?) -- I…

It's that time of year, when faculty candidates are visiting law schools and giving "job talks."  Now comes a paper on the "job talk," co-authored by three law professors at…