Month: March 2012

  Congratulations to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, whose Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance appeared from Oxford University Press yesterday -- along with an editorial,…

Faculty recruitment.  A topic that just never grows old.   And Tennessee law professor Michael Higdon (pictured) recently posted an article on SSRN that merits the attention of faculty recruitment…

The 2012 US News rankings are already out!  Of course, those in the know realize that USN is on a different calendar than the rest of us and today's news…

Following up on a post from last week, I thought that the video of Obama introducing Derrick Bell at HLS in 1990 would have long blown over by now.  It's…

Well, we've just passed another anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march -- the 47th (not the 49th, as Rolling Stone might have us believe).  So perhaps it's time for…

Writer Maria Popova over at Brain Pickings has announced (here) "The Curator's Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across the Web."  What's it about? The Curator’s Code is an…

From our friends at Golden Gate: Golden Gate University School of Law invites applications to fill one long-term contract law faculty position beginning with the 2012-2013 academic year. We are…

It appears that I may have had a crystal ball near me when I posted my last essay predicting that  Ms.Daniela Pelaez, the North Miami high schooler, might become the…

A couple of years back Gregory Sisk's study of law faculty scholarly impact received a lot of attention.  You may recall that the methodology was largely based Brian Leiter's previous study…

Watch Cleaning Up The Tax Mess on PBS. See more from Need to Know.   Dorothy Brown (Emory Law School) is featured in this segment of "Need to Know," a…