Month: March 2011

There have been many discussions on this blog - and others - about the ills of the law review publishing system, which may be unintentionally exacerbated by services like Expresso…

Boston College School of Law is announcing today that Professor Vincent Rougeau, of Notre Dame Law, will become its new Dean.   He takes over on July 1.  Rougeau writes about the relationship…

I speak often of my favorite librarian -- but now I want to post some pictures of my favorite libraries -- Harvard's Widener Library; Columbia's Butler Library and the Columbia…

Back in January, a Toronto police office - speaking to students at Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School - suggested that one way for women to avoid sexual assault was to "not dress…

Pace University School of Law  (White Plains, NY) is seeking to fill one position, titled, Assistant Dean of Environmental Programs and Professor of Law for Designated Project or Service (Assistant…

Over at Slate, Annie Lowrey argues that the surge of law school applicants and graduates was a bubble and that the bubble was burst by cultural, rather than economic forces.…

Fourth Circuit Judge M. Blane Michael, who sat in West Virginia, died last Friday.  He was 68.  He had been appointed to the bench by President Clinton in 1993. Matt…

Stephen Dubner has labeled Al Roth (George Gund Professor Of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University) the “dean of repugnance.”  I prefer to think of Al as the “pied…

Thanks to Mary Dudziak's post at Legal History Blog, I learned the very exciting news on Friday that Chris Tomlins' Freedom Bound won the Bancroft prize in American history -- along…

Taking a moment here, before the press of exams consumes all of my energy, to talk about some things that are on my mind.  First, the fabulous Robert Darnton has…