Month: May 2011

My Aunt Jody has the neatest handwriting of anyone I know.  When I was growing up in the 1970's, any day I received a letter from Aunt Jody was like…

In a recent post, blogger Dustin Cho (a former HLR editor), argues that law faculty should share information about the offer practices of the various law reviews.  If professors knew…

The University of Manitoba has named Lorna Turnbull the new Dean of the Faculty of Law.  Her term runs until June of 2016.  Turnbull, who joined the faculty at Manitoba…

Posted at the request of a friend who is a law professor: "I want to hear from law profs about the etiquette of asking faculty at other (higher ranked) schools…

Lots of people have been reading and pondering yesterday's New York Times article, Law Students Lose the Grant Game as Schools Win.  (Listen to a podcast with article author David…

The University of North Dakota has announced two finalists for the law school's deanship.  They are: Kathryn Rand (the interim dean) and John Cross (Louisville).  

We've just learned that USD Law's dean search committee has added three new finalists to its pool.  They are: Stephen Ferruolo, a partner at Goodwin Proctor; Russell Osgood, former dean of…

I see in the actual faculty lounge here in Chapel Hill that the new Michigan Law Review book review issue is out.  This one runs to 312 pages and it…

A little while ago, I blogged about a program starting next week at Duke law and continuing throughout the next academic year on the relationship between law and custom.  As…

I know there will be a lot of discussion of the article in the New York Times, provocatively titled, "Law Students Lose the Grant Game as Schools Win."  What I…