Month: August 2011

Jayanth Krishnan has a new paper up on ssrn, "Academic Sailers: The Ford Foundation and the Efforts to Shape Legal Education in Africa, 1957-1977," which studies the Ford Foundation's decades-long funding of…

From today through November 6, the Arthur Ross gallery at the University of Pennsylvania's Furness Building, will be displaying "An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art."  I've been talking…

As most of you know, my family welcomed a new baby girl six months ago which, by my calendar means that it's time for me to end my self-imposed ban…

Pepperdine law professor Bob Cochran announced this week that Pepperdine law school will host the third Religious Legal Theory conference in Malibu on February 23-25, 2012.  The conference is titled…

From an email that I received a few days ago: THE CHARLOTTE SCHOOL OF LAW is located in North Carolina’s most populous city—a dynamic community that combines warm Southern hospitality…

A California lawyer specializing in reproductive law and several others pled guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with what federal prosecutors have labeled a “baby-selling…

From an email that I received earlier this week: Tulane Law School invites applications for tenured or tenure-track positions. The appointments committee will consider excellent candidates in all fields. Applications…

THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA COLLEGE OF LAW invites applications from both entry-level and experienced candidates for tenure-track/tenured faculty positions beginning in the 2012-13 academic year.  While we will consider a…

From an email that I received earlier this week: The William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, invites applications for two or more tenure-track…

A blogger identifying himself only as “a tenured mid-career faculty member at a Tier One school” has taken his insider’s view of the “law school scam” on-line.  Complaints include that…