Month: November 2010

My colleague Maxine Eichner spoke on WUNC's program "The State of Things" yesterday (podcast available here) about about her new book, The Supportive State.  I wrote some about it here.  …

Candidates:  would you prefer to give your job talk during lunch?  You may be too nervous to eat before the job talk, and you may feel rushed (or be left…

If you're a graduate student of any stripe - including an advanced law student (post-JD) - with scholarly interests in sociolegal studies...this call's for you!  The Law and Society Association…

As I near the end of my fall semester university mentoring fellowship, I had an interesting conversation with one of the course leaders earlier this week.  I was toying with…

Faculty hiring committees are in the process of scheduling callback interviews with candidates.  Most callback interviews will include a "job talk" component.  George Washington law prof Orin Kerr (pictured) offered…

During this faculty recruiting season, the term "diversity" occasionally comes up in discussion.  Chapman law prof Tom Bell (pictured) offers some thoughts on three types of diversity in his recent…

So many of us have now returned home from the AALS Recruitment Conference hopefully unscathed for the most part.  I thought I'd share a few of my general observations on…

Those who continue to follow Jeff Skilling's path down the appellate road may find interesting this story from the local newspaper.  A panel of the Fifth Circuit will hear oral…

A few days ago, Forbes ran (yet another) story on (yet another) study on diversity – or, more accurately, the lack thereof – in senior corporate management and boards of…

Elizabeth Garrett, the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southern California, was named provost of the university last week. …