Month: January 2012

Dean Annette Clark announced yesterday that as of this coming August, Saint Louis University law school will be moving from midtown to downtown St. Louis.  The announcement appears to have…

Via Al Roth comes news that the government is fighting the recent Flynn v. Holder decision, which held that bone marrow donors could be legally compensated (for peripheral blood stem ...

I have not read Jodi Kantor's new book, The Obamas, but thankfully many other people have - and two have now shared this nugget: earlier in his career, Barack Obama's greatest…

Why would a law professor write fiction?  Scott Douglas Gerber (Ohio Northern) answers that question in the National Jurist here (free registration required; sorry).  Here's the kernel of his advice:…

What do we do in Chapel Hill on cold, overcast Sunday afternoons in winter?  Spend time in the archives, of course!  I'll be talking soon about the constitutional origins of…

A frustrating search last night of a law school website in an attempt to locate the school's street address prompted me to repost this xkcd gem from 2010:

News here.  It's hardly the end of the Penn State story, but it certainly adds a potent dramatic turn. 

Sticking my head up from work on the constitutional arguments surrounding secession this evening, which I'll be talking about much more over the next couple of months....  Did anyone else…

I've blogged in the past about genre-bending movies (and I finally saw Cowboys and Aliens on DVD over the break - or at least I saw most of it, I…

Fourth Update - August 8, 2012 The law school dean search situation is starting to firm up, so it's time to start tracking lateral moves again this year.  Historians may…