Month: January 2012

John Linarelli, among the most prolific and establsihed scholars on the University of LaVerne School of Law faculty, has moved to Wales.  He is now the Head of School, and…

They are:  Gary Myers (Mississippi), Andrew Klein (Indiana-Indianapolis), Robert Pushaw Jr. (Pepperdine), Marcella David (Iowa), and Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt).

Of course not.   The New York Law Journal reports here on the case of former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney John J. O'Brien, the man who failed to report more than $9…

I have uposted an pdated 2011-12 law school dean search list here.  (I don't move it to the top of the blog for fear that I'll lose the permanent link.)

I was at a general meeting today (ie not law school specific) about approaches to effective mentoring for tenure track faculty.  In particular, we were asked about what advice we…

There is some forward progress in the movement to provide compensation to people who were sterilized in North Carolina.  The LA Times' story is here and CNN's is here.  Here is the…

The University of North Texas, which plans to open a law school in Dallas in August 2014, has named Senior U.S. District Judge Royal Furgeson as its founding dean.  Furgeson,…

The University of St. Thomas School of Law (MN) has announced the membership of its search committee to replace outgoing law dean Thomas Mengler.  Details here.

Duke law dean David Levi, who served as Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California prior to his appointment as dean in 2007, has an article…

(This announcement is posted at the request of friend, and St. Thomas (FL) law professor, Katharine Van Tassel): Although many law schools hire faculty members other than their own to…