Month: February 2011

For those who haven't seen it yet, the Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator is a great way to avoid class prep or those overdue article edits.  Here are a few of…

From Lance McMillian: Jeff Bridges, nominated for Best Actor for True Grit, now has six acting Oscar nominations in the best actor and best supporting actor categories.  By my count,…

Well, I'm on my way to Los Angeles this evening for a conference that Ariela Gross has put together on law and memory at the University of Southern California. I'm…

Geoffrey Rush (nominated this year for Best Supporting Actor for The King's Speech) is one of 8 actors to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden…

The University of South Carolina School of Law is looking for a slew of visitors for the 2011-2012 academic year in these subject-matter areas: Constitutional Law (fall)Wills, Trusts & Estates…

Willamette University College of Law Dean Symeon Symeonides announced he will be stepping down at the end of the academic year.  Dean search aficionados should not get too excited.   Outgoing university President…

From Colin Miller: The Academy Awards should be this Sunday, and if Oscar history is any indication, they actually will be held on Sunday. There have, however, been three times…

The National Law Journal suggests that, in light of a decline in applications, law schools might be reducing class sizes.  Unfortunately, the story provides little evidence of this shift -…

Well, I thought that I'd post a picture of the Birmingham Jail -- it's not *the* jail where Martin Luther King wrote his letter; this is the modern jail.  But…

There are events in history, the memories of which stay with us forever.  And we can recall exactly where we were when we watched it take place, or first learned…