Month: May 2011

The University of Colorado School of Law has named Phil Weiser as its new dean.  Weiser, a professor at Colorado, is currently on leave and serving as senior advisor for…

Well, I started the summer reading binge with two celebrity autobiographies:  Bossypants by Tina Fey and Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe. Surprisingly, I enjoyed both of…

The Berle II symposium volume -- The Second Annual Symposium of the Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Center on Corporations, Law & Society -- organized last year by Chuck O'Kelley at Seattle…

In both law and other disciplines, the subject of co-authoring gets a lot of attention.  Who co-authors with whom and how many times?  How many degrees of separation do people…

With the impending release of Cowboys and Aliens, which I understand is based on a comic book (?), I started to think of how many other movies or TV shows…

According to this article from today's New York Times, the Badminton World Federation will require women in elite-level competitions to wear skits or dresses.  The reason? “We’re not trying to use…

Much like the English empire, the sun never sets on hiring these days, it seems.  The University of Florida is already in hiring mode.  They have a number of positions,…

Texas Tech has announced the appointment of its new law school dean.  Dean Darby Dickerson of Stetson University College of Law will be picking up and moving to Lubbock.   Dickerson,…

Berkeley Law Professor Goodwin Liu has formally withdrawn from consideration as a Ninth Circuit nominee.  He did so by requesting that President Obama withdraw his nomination.  Liu, a former Rhodes…

It is my pleasure to mention that the inaugural issue of the Alabama  Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review has appeared.  This is something that Alabama students have been planning…