Month: May 2011

As I was looking to see if Mark Ascher's review of Lawrence Friedman's Dead Hands is up on the net yet (it isn't), I saw that the Texas Law Review…

Folks thinking of going on the teaching market this year may be interested in taking a look at David Perlmutter's new book, Promotion and Tenure Confidential.  It may also be…

Brian Leiter reports that the Northwestern law dean search has, to date, not resulted in a decanal appointment and that the search will continue into next year with Kim Yuracko…

There has been a good deal of talk recently about new law schools put on hold.  Don't count Indiana Tech among the naysayers, however.  On Friday, its board of trustees…

AALS Section on Business Associations Call for Papers January 2012 Annual Meeting               The AALS Section on Business Associations will meet during the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.,…

In honor of the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (May 17, 1954),  I thought that I'd post a picture of the historic Varsity Theater in Chapel Hill.  It's…

Each year the American Society for Legal History, an organization very close to my heart, names two younger scholars Preyer Scholars.  Those scholars then present their papers at the ASLH…

Although there were hints that Albany Law School might name a new dean and president yesterday, it appears that the search will unfold a bit longer.  Instead, the law school named…

Much to my delight, my colleague Barak Richman has been stirring up a whole heap of trouble lately.  I’m always happy to see someone using the tools of antitrust law…

Over at Prawfs, Ethan Leib is collecting data about law school curves.  I encourage interested readers to visit and share their own schools' rules and provisions.  We've heard lots of…