Month: December 2010

From the Globe And Mail: A long-awaited Supreme Court ruling that takes the business of regulating the clinical world of baby-making out of Ottawa’s hands has raised questions about the…

With thanks to one of my Aussie colleagues for sending this to me, I thought some of our readers might enjoy this Gilbert & Sullivan parody for a Christmas chuckle...…

Scott Matheson, Jr., law professor (and former dean) at the University of Utah's S. J. Quinney College of Law, has been confirmed by the Senate to a seat on the…

The news is simple enough: DePaul College of Law has announced that its new dean will be Gregory Mark, the vice dean at Rutgers Newark law school.  Mark looks like…

It's late December.  You're working hard to get that  piece ready for February submissions.  It's a law and humanities piece...or perhaps a "critical, qualitative work in the social sciences."  But…

Earlier this year I blogged a bit about Karen Rothenberg, the former dean of the University of Maryland School of Law.   As part of a retention package, she was paid $350,000…

Late last week, David Rudovsky, a Senior Fellow on the Penn Law faculty, and Len Sosnov, Professor of Law at Widener, won a $5 million dollar punitive damages verdict in…

From Paul Caron, we learn that the three University of San Diego School of Law finalists are Robert B. Ahdieh, Nicholas Allard, and Lawrence Mitchell.

Following on from David's interesting series of posts about exams and other forms of assessment, I was wondering about another issue - the ideal length for an exam question, particularly…

While everyone else is beginning to talk about quantitaive legal history -- thanks to the magic of what Brian Leiter calls book google's latest cool toy -- I suppose I should…