Month: June 2011

Duke Law School has just established a new Center for Judicial Studies, the brain-child of Dean David Levi, who served as Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District…

Due to an unexpected departure of a faculty member (for good reasons), FIU Law is seeking a visitor for the coming school year in the areas of Sales, Contracts, and…

As Paul Berman moves from Temple to Washington DC, Arizona State needed someone to keep the law school running smoothing.  ASU made an excellent choice: Doug Sylvester has been named interim…

The University of Toledo College of Law has announced the appointment of Dan Steinbock as the school's new permanent dean.  He has been serving as interim dean for the past…

From an email I recently received from friend Jim Hawkins (University of Houston):         The symposium Regulation in the Fringe Economy represents the most significant attempt to date by legal scholars…

Via my colleague, Kate Bartlett, I came across this short article by Amanda Gerut, Still Working to Cure ‘Invisible–Woman Syndrome,’ in Agenda.  The article opens:  Women on boards aren’t considered…

"Everyone Has a Price What's Yours?" That's the slogan of What's Your Price, an internet dating site where self-classified "generous" people (i.e., those interested in paying for a date) can…

We're very pleased that Sarah Lawsky will be joining us as a guest blogger.  Sarah joined the UC Irvine law faculty last fall, moving west from George Washington University.  She is a…

Those of us who teach "law of the horse" type subjects such as cyberlaw do tend to spend some time wondering about how to characterize the nature of the field…

Why haven't we spoken about Peter Conti-Brown's "Scarcity Amidst Wealth: The Law, Finance, and Culture of Elite University Endowments in Financial Crisis," which appeared in the March 2011 issue of…