Month: December 2011

I've been reading the Senate Judiciary Committee materials on judicial nominations.  Pretty interesting reading there, such as Senators' questions regarding what one candidate meant when she said that "the lack…

Recently, in David Segal's irregular NYT column attacking law schools,  Segal featured the Duncan Law School of Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee.  Segal noted that Duncan was seeking provisional ABA…

This news is a little old, but I've been buried in classes, exams, and now grading -- so that explains why I'm behind on blogging.  Back in November St. John's…

The Journal of Legal Education and Southwestern Law School are teaming up to host a legal fiction contest.  Details are here and here.

Readers may be interested in the following...   The Fifth International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC V) will be held July 12-14, 2012 in Banff, Alberta.  All information is available on the conference website…

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Everyone once in a while I talk about a legal historian who is loose in public -- like me wandering around the aisles of Target (near the coal mines of…

I was out in Greensboro yesterday and had the chance to get a picture of Elon Law School -- also some of the Woolworth's where the sitins took place, the Green…

Mercer will begin offering the first LL.M. degree in Federal Criminal Practice and Procedure next fall.  The law school's press release is here.

For readers looking for some wonderful holiday music, I'll pass along these two suggestions: O HOLY NIGHT (Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra, joined by The King's Singers):  click here. THE…