Month: November 2011

I recently discovered Animoto, the internet-based program that allows users to convert still images into videos with semi-customizable image wrappers, music and text.  Here's a quick test video featuring all…

On Wednesday, Gary Rosin noted that the ABA had put up - and then taken down - a link to proposed language adding job placement benchmarks to law school accreditation standards. …

Catching my eye this week is a paper recently posted to SSRN by law prof Mark Osler (pictured), currently at St. Thomas (Minnesota) and formerly at Baylor (sic 'em Bears!). …

Some thoughts here, penned by Washington and Lee law professor Ben Spencer.

Brent Staples reviews Dan Sharfstein's The Invisible Line in the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books.  From Staples' powerful last paragraph: One suspects that the young…

As I'm getting ready to watch the Alabama-LSU game this evening, I'm reminded of the little-known (or at least little-discussed) fact that before he became famous in the Civil War,…

In recent days we've been joined in the blogosphere by The National Law Journal's Law School Review (A Forum On Legal Education). From Karen Sloan's initial post dated October 27:…

Back in the old days, like last year,  there used to be something called the Stanford/Yale Faculty Forum.  The organizers selected a dozen or so junior scholars to present their…

And they are...Marion Crain (Wash U.), Nora Demleitner (Hofstra), Michael Gerhardt (UNC), and David Scheffer (Northwestern).  Details here.