Month: August 2011

From an email that I received a few days ago: Santa Clara University School of Law seeks to fill tenured or tenure-track positions on its faculty.  Candidates must possess a…

Last summer the Washington Post covered Terry Meyers' discovery of what may be the oldest surviving school house for African American children in North America -- now it brings us…

For those of you who may have missed it, check out Judge Martin Sheehan's decision in Kissel v Schwartz in Kentucky.  The decision is extremely short and certainly worth a…

From an email that I received a few days ago: The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law will have up to two openings for entry-level tenure-track positions and one…

In an admittedly unscientific ABA Journal poll, readers voted on the question: what do you use for legal research?  Westlaw was 1st, Lexis 2nd, Other 3rd (presumably including a variety…

I blogged some months back about accusations of racial harassment and sexual harassment against Widener Professor Lawrence Connell and his suit against the university.   The law school held a formal…

Larry Dessem, law dean at the University of Missouri, has announced that he will step down after this academic year, his tenth at the helm.  Story here.

I thought about calling this post "The Constitutional Significance of the Washington Monuments," but that's what I'll call the short paper I do around the laying of the cornerstone of…

From an email that I received a few days ago: The University of Kansas seeks applications from entry-level and lateral candidates for positions in several areas, including Corporations, Criminal Law,…

From an email that I received a few days ago: The University of Arkansas School of Law invites applications to fill one or more tenure-track or tenured faculty positions beginning…