Month: January 2012

Step One: Label the offending employee a “rogue” During Dean Garris’ review of this matter, a senior administrator in the Office of Admission disclosed that he had been solely responsible…

Three tech scholars have posted a working draft of their co-authored paper Who Gives a Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Data.  Paul André (Carnegie Mellon and Southampton, UK), Michael S. Bernstein…

The fraudulent reporting of standardized test scores continues - this time with an elite undergraduate program.  A senior administrator at Claremont McKenna College, in Southern California, resigned after admitting he'd…

Over here at Letters of Note is a reprint of Scottish poet Robert Burns's 1791 reply a critic: Dear Sir:Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the…

So, my Taboo Trades class has finished blood and is now moving on to bone marrow.  To celebrate the occasion, I’ll be posting some thoughts, links to  Flynn V. Holder,…

Campbell Law School may hire a visitor to teach Sales (three credits) during Fall 2012 and Spring 2013.  In addition to Sales, the second course in the teaching package probably…

This afternoon's mail brought the first volume of G. Edward White's planned three volume history of American law -- Law in American History: From the Colonial Years Through The Civil…

The ever-thoughtful Saul Cornell, who holds the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in History at Fordham, has a new article, "The People's Constitution vs. The Lawyer's Constitution: Popular Constitutionalism and the Original…

The Jane Addams Hull House Association shut its doors last week.  The Chicago Tribune detailed the organization's financial troubles: Jane Addams Hull House Association will be out of business Friday,…

The folks at Villanova Law are in the market for two visiting assistant professors for the 2012-13 school year.  A job announcement is here.