Month: May 2011

Look for the newly upated list of 2011 law school faculty moves here.  I am hopeful that this will be the final draft, although I might update it with additional…

Mark Ascher has a lengthy review of Stanford law professor Lawrence Friedman's latest book, Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law, in the most recent issue of the Texas Law Review.…

Professor David Patton, of the University of Alabama, has been named the new chief federal defender for the Southern District of New York.  Patton previously practiced with that office and…

A few days ago the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum posted its program for the upcoming symposium on Baseball and American Culture.  Readers interested in the symposium (to…

Earlier this week, Wall Street Journal blogger Robert Frank wrote (here) in "Shutting Out the Kids From the Family Fortune" about a wealthy man who left his fortune in trust.  …

Well, what can I say.  Another year -- my seventeenth in this business -- is done (except, of course, for grading).  I had a wonderful time with the students this…

Our graduation ceremonies were this weekend -- barbeque lunch for the students on Saturday with a bluegrass band, always a prescription for a good time -- followed by a really…

With all due deference to my colleague, Jon Adler, I remain a little disappointed at the list of upcoming summer movies.  My tastes are pretty eclectic, but I haven't seen…

As I noted over at Leiter, the University of La Verne School of Law has run into rough waters with the ABA.  The law school, provisionally accredited in 2006, sought…

A colleague asked me if I had any thoughts about the distracting use of PDAs (eg iPhones, iPads, Droids etc) during scholarly presentations.  I must admit I hadn't given it…