Month: January 2011

From the EagleiOnline at Boston College, the finalists in the BC Law dean search are: Michele Goodwin, University of Minnesota Everett Fraser Chair in Law; Professor of Medicine, School of…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards earlier this week.  How did you do on your prognostication? Last year, joined by a few others,…

I have on good authority that the University of Richmond is fortunate to have four terrific finalists for their dean search, which I have previously written about here.  The finalists,…

Santa Clara law professor Catherine Sandoval (pictured) has been appointed by Governor Jerry Brown as one of two new commissioners to the California Public Utilities Commission.  Story here.   According…

I'm very proud to say that the Drexel Law Review has published a particularly interesting and in depth symposium, Business Improvement Districts and the Evolution of Urban Governance.  The symposium,…

I've been asked to post the following info on the Midwest Corporate Law Scholars Conference.  Inquiries may be directed to Prof Eric Chaffee at Dayton Law School. =========================== Corporate Law…

A faculty scholarship prize is a low- (or no-) cost way of encouraging and recognizing faculty members who are doing great work.  For each of the last 6 years, my…

The LA Times has a remarkable account of a woman, Abbie Dorn, who - during birth of her triplets - suffered medical errors that left her without the ability to move…

Gordon Smith has posted the final rankings of his crowdsourced survey about law schools.  Perhaps the single most important thing it teaches us is: brand matters.  We all believed this already.  But…

Later today I'm going to be speaking at Michigan State Law School's Indigenous Law and Policy Center on Michael Anthony Lawrence's Radicals In Their Own Time, which has just appeared…