Month: February 2011

I've just finished reading the 10th anniversary edition of Difficult Conversations, a business title released by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project.  This is…

Paul Caron has posted a list of selected public law school dean salaries here.  The salaries vary fairly widely - and I suspect that there are components of compensation that don't…

Brian Leiter reports that Susan Bandes, a senior professor at DePaul Law, has accepted an offer from the University of Miami.   This is the second recent departure from DePaul.  As…

The University of Memphis is searching for a tenure-track professor or visitor to teach upper-level legal writing courses. Interested persons should contact Steve Mulroy.

The New York Times Magazine featured a story by Joshua Foer about his experience training for and competing in the U.S.A. Memory Championship.  In Secrets of a Mind-Gamer: How I…

Well, I'm back from a lovely trip to Birmingham, where I spoke at a forum on reparations at the University of Alabama--Birmingham on Friday night.  It's been a long time…

Adam Liptak has an article in today's New York Times on the criminal libel trial in France of NYU Law Professor Joseph Weiler.  Liptak observes that "Brian Leiter, a law professor…

There are four finalists -- Craig Boise, Lee Fisher, Susan Richey, and Niels Schaumann -- for the Cleveland-Marshall law school deanship now that University of Illinois Professor Daniel Hamilton has…

Name the two Best Picture winners that were adapted for the big screen from plays that captured the Pulitzer Prize. Pictured:  Rabbit Hole, the 2010 film based on the Pulitzer…

According to the Eagle Online, Boston College Law School has narrowed the pool in its dean search to either Vincent Rougeau and Russell Osgood.  Rougeau is on the Notre Dame faculty;…