Month: March 2011

This year, I will be compiling the law school visiting faculty list for visits taking place in the 2011-2012 academic year (either or both semesters).  So please feel free to…

Well, because lawyer house trivia was so successful, I thought I'd try another one.  This time it's "judge house trivia."  The house at right was owned by a justice on…

Now that Larry Solum has decided to give up his annual Entryl Level Hiring Report - though you can still find the archived versions from 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005,…

 Members of the LL.M. Class of 2011 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School have joined with students from Wharton's Japan Club to fundraise for earthquake relief efforts in Japan. …

Anyone who has googled anything today has probably seen the tribute to Harry Houdini on what would have been  his 137th birthday.  I also noticed an interesting article here about…

Screen icon Elizabeth Taylor has died. What is your favorite Liz Taylor movie?  I would include National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, and Ivanhoe on my list (more for…

If I'm remembering correctly, there was a thread on the Associate Dean list-serve recently about whether any schools have "civility codes" for conduct during faculty meetings.  I remember folks raising…

With thanks to one of my colleagues for pointing this out to me yesterday, according to a recent article in the N.Y. Times, Yale Law School is dealing with stressed…

A couple of years ago in a post titled The Coming Judicial Clerkship Application Crush I suggested - accurately, as it turned out -  that the economic crisis would cause a…

Board Diversity - How Important is “Critical Mass?” Professors at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University Law School recently published a paper describing and analyzing the results of data collected…