Month: December 2010

Lawrence K. Hellman, the dean of Oklahoma City University School of Law, will step down this June.   He has been dean since 1998.  Hellman's successes include, notably, obtaining AALS accreditation…

Just because I know people love to pore over this stuff, I've gone back through the US News law school rankings over the past decade and a half and put…

  Have to be these.    (HT: Eugene Volokh)  

The folks at Loyola LA have started up a new faculty blog, Summary Judgments.  It's got a nice look and feel and of course they've got the faculty (including folks…

As I note over at Leiter, the  Council of the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar hit the brakes on the issue of accrediting overseas law…

Click here for an update on the search for a new law dean at GW.

This past weekend marked the 41st anniversary of the murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.  Mr. Hampton, age 21, was shot by FBI agents while he slept in a…

Mitu Gulati and Eric Posner have written a piece about the European debt crisis for Slate.  They think that the various proposed solutions to the debt crisis boil down to…

For those looking for a small sci-fi fix while eagerly awaiting the release of Tron:  Legacy (starring "Oscar Winner - TM - Jeff Bridges"), might I recommend the audio-book version…

A remarkably large number of Americans live under the delusion that Barack Obama is a liberal.  This floor speech is a real liberal giving voice to those of us who…