Month: April 2011

I'm guessing that several schools did not hire any entry-level candidates for the upcoming 2011-12 academic year. But the data being reported at Prawfsblawg reveals only three (STCL, Suffolk, and…

A year ago, I blogged about the Buchheit and Gulati paper, How To Restructure Greek Debt.  In contrast to the complete disinterest with which the downloading blogosphere greets attempts to…

Well, I'm back from a fabulous conference, Slavery's Capitalism.  Lots of stuff to talk about here.  The first thing, of course, is ... a picture!  At right is a picture…

I noticed today that LexOpus (the online submission system that was a little more international and gave a little more flexibility to authors and journals than Expresso) is ceasing operations…

Readers who teach corporate securities law may find fodder for classroom discussion of "insider trading" at this link.

I've previously blogged about the messy situation at Widener Law School.  Widener law professor Lawrence Connell has been placed on administrative leave as a result of student allegations that he…

Icelanders have rejected a deal to settle claims by Britain and the Netherlands stemming from the 2008 collapse of Icelandic banks.  The British and Dutch governments are now expected to…

The Brooklyn Law School has recently announced the two finalists for its deanship.  They are Daniel Capra (Fordham) and Lawrence Mitchell (George Washington).  Official announcement here. UPDATE:  On April 20,…

For those of you who teach National Academy of Sciences v. Cambridge Trust Company in trusts and estates, I have a picture of the Cambridge Trust Company at right, along…

Our law review has asked me to post the following call for papers for their fall symposium on the future of private and public sector collective bargaining. ======================== Case Western…