Month: February 2012

Over at The Atlantic blog, Ta-Nehisi Coates has a terrific post on Ron Paul's suggestion that the Civil War didn't need to be fought -- that we could have freed the ...

It's my great pleasure to welcome my collegue Gregg Polsky into the faculty lounge.  Gregg is the Willie Person Mangum Professor of Law here at UNC, where he teaches in tax…

From an email that I received earlier this week: Thomas Jefferson School of Law invites applications for the TJSL Teaching Fellowship, to begin in the 2012-13 academic year.  Applicants should…

Over at legal history blog, Mary Dudziak has the details of the Paul Murphy prize in the history of civil liberties.  It will be awarded twice and will provide $5000…

From an email that I received this week: The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University is looking for a tax scholar for its Visiting Assistant Professor…

Howard Wasserman flags Dahlia Lithwick's story about how prosecutors in Illinois are prosecuting two individuals who recorded their interactions with police on the grounds that the officers did not consent to the recordings. …

Attorneys  filed suit today against twelve law schools arguing that these schools induced students  into attending by providing deceptive employment data.      The schools are:  Albany, Brooklyn, California Western, IIT  Chicago-Kent, DePaul, Florida Coastal, Golden Gate,…

Cleveland Marshall College of Law seeks applications for two  clinical professor positions to begin in the 2012-2013 academic year. The clinical professors will be non-tenure-track full-time members of the law…

Yale law professor Jonathan Macey paid a visit to The Daily Show yesterday (Tuesday).  Watch his interview with host Jon Stewart here.

You may recall that a few months back I mentioned Brent Staples'  review of Daniel Sharfstein's The Invisible Line in the New York Review of Books.  I want to circle…