Law Professor Caricatures

While having another conversation about law school website design with a colleague, the discussion meandered into those uncomfortably posed photographs we all grin and bear for the purpose of our…
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End of an Era

Pork Bellies Going Down Trading Places at MOVIECLIPS.com   From the Chicago Tribune: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange said it is shutting down its iconic frozen pork belly futures market at…
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James R. Smoot: 1946-2011

Memphis law professor Jim Smoot passed away earlier this week.  He joined the Memphis law faculty in 1990 and served as dean from 2004 until 2008, during which time he played…
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Hiring Snobbery

Brian Leiter has a post this week about the pedigree sensitivity in law school hiring. Now comes a study suggesting that similar selectivity exists in Wall Street hiring.  The study,…
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Restricted versus Unrestricted Gifts

I attended a seminar today at which one of the speakers explained that typically university endowments contain a significantly greater percentage of restricted gifts than unrestricted gifts.  In other words,…
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Hiring Announcements and AALS

Next Wednesday -- July 20 -- is the date by which the AALS is requesting hiring announcements from law schools for inclusion in its initial Placement Bulletin.  So if you're…
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Campus Architecture

Well, I'm back from an extended research trip, working mostly on the jurisprudence of slavery and freedom at Washington College -- which took me to Richmond for time at the…
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