Month: December 2011

Polly Price has sent along the sad news that David J. Bederman, the K. H. Gyr Professor in Private International Law at Emory Law School, has passed away.  David is author of…

As a U.S. inhabitant with an accent, I was intrigued to see a workshop being offered in the Continuing Studies Curriculum at Stanford on Accent Reduction for Non-Native Speakers of…

In an op-ed published Friday, I argue that the new "normal" policing involves both hyper-policing and militarization - but that these policies can only be sustained, politically, when they are used…

Tim has blogged in the past about naming and shaming faculties who do not keep open channels of communication with faculty candidates, particularly those who don't let candidates know if…

HT: Alex Tabarrok.  

It is my pleasure to report that Federal Magistrate Judge Valeria Couch will be the next dean at Oklahoma City University.  Judge Couch has been on the bench since 1999;…

Everyone's working very hard this weekend -- lots of studying for finals (or in my case writing one) -- and so perhaps it's time for a short break.  How about…

After a $24 million dollar gift from Robert McKinney, IU-I Law is now the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.  As I noted over at Leiter,  given that…

Following up on the Pennoyer v. Neff art from a few weeks ago, here are winners from Mark Levin's rule 11  poetry contest.  These are from Mark's first year civil procedure…

John DiPippa, dean at UALR's William H. Bowen School of Law, announced yesterday that he is stepping down from that position at the end of June 2012.  Story here.