Month: September 2011

From an email that I received earlier today: The University of Houston Law Center has a lateral opening in Energy/Environmental Law.  The position will consider persons currently on the tenure…

You had to guess this was going to happen.   After discovering that this year's entering class LSAT data had been hugely inflated - to 168 from an actual 163…

Amdist all the talk of anti-slavery and pro-slavery thought in Lexington before the Civil War, it's been a while since I wrote about some of the other ideas of utility,…

From the Chronicle this morning: "But conflating class and race will not solve the problem of racial inequality. Low socioeconomic status has not been the basis for systematic exclusion of…

There's some exciting news out of Concord, New Hampshire this morning.  My friend -- and blogger here at the faculty lounge -- Calvin Massey has just been named the inaugural…

Maybe it's time to talk some about Judge John Brockenbrough, who ran the Lexington Law School before the Civil War.  He was an important counter-weight to Henry Ruffner in Lexington;…

Story here.  (Hat tip to colleague Matt Sawchak.) Query the judge's response if an applicant asked for a week to ten days to ponder an offer.   Faculty hiring committees…

Our friends in Columbia, MO have posted Mizzou's law school dean search announcement.  You'll find it here.

Interested in becoming the dean of a D.C. area law school?  Good news!  The Catholic University School of Law dean search announcement is here.

A new study out from Rand suggests as much.  Rand Corp. studied crime rates around several LA marijuana dispensaries which were forced to close after the city adopted a new medical…