Month: November 2011

My colleague and sometime guest blogger, Sharona Hoffman, asked me to post this as she is interested in people's thoughts.  She is an employment discrimination lawyer so I can assure…

It's been a month since the AALS hosted its annual Faculty Recruitment Conference in mid-October. By now, common courtesy would dictate that hiring committees should have been in touch with…

Over at the Legal Scholarship Network, the University of Kentucky College of Law has posted an announcement seeking applications/nominations of candidates interested in a one-semester gig during the 2012-13 academic…

This past weekend the American Society for Legal History held its annual meeting.  (The program is here.)  This year the meeting was in lovely Atlanta.  The papers were really terrific…

Last month, the American Law Institute elected new members.  Among them are these law profs: Matthew T. Bodie, Professor, St. Louis University School of Law Richard Briffault, Professor, Columbia University…

The University of Baltimore has issued an official announcement of its dean search here.  You could do a lot worse than to lead a school that's essentially been gifted a…

"John G. Palfrey, Jr., the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School, has been named the 15th Head…

During the global crisis, Iceland was hit by the biggest banking crisis any country has ever suffered. Over at VOX, Friðrik Már Baldursson reviews the role of the IMF in…

Start-up law school Indiana Tech (Fort Wayne; Fall 2013) has named Southern Illinois law professor (and former dean) Peter Alexander as its initial dean.  The school's press release is here.

Margaret Hu, a visiting assistant professor at Duke Law School, has posted over at the ACS blog on  U.S. v. Jones. Margaret's research focuses on immigration and surveillance policy. She…