Month: June 2012

As we did last summer and fall, we are happy to post faculty hiring announcements that you wish to pass along to me (zinneckert@campbell.edu).  We received the first posting request…

NCCU School of Law announced today the appointment of Professor Phyliss Craig-Taylor as its new dean.  Craig-Taylor is currently the Associate Dean for Academics at Charlotte School of Law.  She…

Dean John Carroll, who has lead the Cumberland Law School at Samford University since 2001, announced today that he will return to teaching at the end of the 2012-13 school…

Well, this outcome was easily predictable: today the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors unanimously reinstated Teresa Sullivan.  “We have both come to the conclusion that it is time to…

Here's a bit of big law school news.  The administrations of Texas A&M and Texas Wesleyan Universities announced today that Texas A&M is acquiring Texas Wesleyan's law school.  Texas A&M…

Yesterday, in Miller v. Alabama, the Supreme Court did offer up a life changing decision for potentially thousands of children.  Those juveniles are the ones currently serving, or currently facing,…

Vice Provost for Academic Planning at the University of Akron, Professor Elizabeth Reilly has agreed to take on the interim deanship of Akron Law School following the decision of current…

Perhaps it's time for a little more courthouse trivia?  In honor of President Sullivan, I thought that I'd post a little this week on things related to Virginia.  So this…

It's my pleasure to announce that Professor Ralph Clifford of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth School of Law is stepping into the faculty lounge to guest blog with us for a…

The following is a guest post by Ben Barros of Widener Law School: Legal education is being pressed to reform.  The existing state of regulation by the ABA and state ...