Month: December 2011

Following up on a post from mid-October, about Joe Gordon's guilty plea for web-publishing Thai translations of The King Never Smiles: there are reports that Joe Gordon has now received a two and one-half…

From an email that I received earlier today: The Becket Fund is assisting with a search to fill a clinical teaching position at a prestigious west-coast law school.  The person…

Raymond Pierce, who has served as dean of the NCCU School of Law since 2005, will step down as of next summer.  Before joining NCCU, Pierce was a partner at…

For those of you who don't read the WSJ religiously, I'm pleased to flag the newest innovation in Economy Class Comfort for international flights: Sky Couch, from Air New Zealand. …

Story here. Call me naive, but I did not see this coming. 

If you will have children with you at the AALS Annual Meeting in D.C., please consider advance registration for childcare service.  The deadline is December 16, 2011. Information, including fees, hours,…

Following on the other sad news of the last few weeks comes news that long-time Boston College law professor Robert Berry passed away November 21.  Bob was a beloved teacher…

News from Jackson that Carol West (pictured), longtime professor at Mississippi College School of Law, recently passed away at the age of 67.  She joined the faculty in 1975.  Additional…

Lauren Robel, the dean of Indiana University Bloomington law school,  has been named the interim provost of the Bloomington campus.   She will take over on February 1, 2012.   Robel is…

Mark Yudof, President of the University of California, has named the panel to investigate the pepper spray incident at UC Davis.  The team is chaired by former California Supreme Court…