Month: July 2012

Seems like I'm posting more about Richmond these days than any place else -- I suppose that makes sense given how close it is to Chapel Hill, how often I'm…

Dean Gary Roberts has announced that he will be leaving the deanship of Indiana University - Indianapolis School of Law at the end of the 2012-13 school year.   He…

From an email that I received a few days ago: Notre Dame Law School may have permanent or visiting faculty positions that will begin in Fall 2013.  The Law School…

This is a reminder that Drexel Law will be hosting the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association conference on October 19-20, 2012, in Philadelphia.  The theme is Law, Society and…

Well, I'm in the land of hoagies and Wawa (or as Governor Romney says, Wawas) briefly.  I had hoped to see Dan Filler, but this is an abbreviated and sudden ...

I'm still working through my mixed feelings about Richmond's Oakwood Cemetery.  I was particularly interested in two monuments there.  The first is a very small slate headstone to W.W. Mitchell,…

It's my pleasure to announce that Jill Fraley of Washington and Lee's law school is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Jill was educated…

When he last visited, Paul McGreal was the associate dean at Southern Illinois School of Law. Now he's the Dean at Dayton. Nice work! We're very pleased to welcome Paul…

File this post under the heading "Reparations for the Era of Civil War."  Recently I had the chance to visit the Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond.  It's one of the largest…

This weekend, Microsoft and NBC announced the separation of media brands.  MSNBC had previously sold NBC its stake in the television network, but it is now relinquishing its share in…