Month: March 2011

According to Bob Morse's blog (here), law schools can expect some changes to the data reported in connection with the US News annual rankings: In an effort to make our…

Following up on Dan's prior post, KU has released the name of the second candidate for the law school's deanship:  Vanderbilt law prof Beverly Moran (pictured).

Press release here. Congratulations, Mary!

In an article yesterday headlined, “Women At Top Lift Shares, Study Shows,” the FT discussed a new report on corporate boards published by the British law firm Eversheds.  Although copies…

I did not know until today that the first national "woman's day" was celebrated in the United States in 1909.  I did remember that in 1975, the United Nations declared…

The NY Times reported (here) today on the 21 year-old Applebee's waiter/aspiring musician who has been charged with manufacturing and distributing child pornography.  The offense?  He posted a video of…

Nancy Leong and Jennifer Mullins have posted some more data (in a paper entitled "Preliminary Data: Gender and Student Note Publication 1999-2009") on the proportion of student notes authored by men and…

Washington and Lee has named its law dean search committee.  The composition, as well as other information on the search process, is available here.

I just received an email from a friend of mine (let's call her Sue) who works at the same law school as another friend of mine (let's call her Angie). …

Jacqui’s post a few weeks ago on chairs as recruiting devices got me thinking about another potential interaction of chairs on hiring – specifically, the potential distortive effects.  In other…