Month: December 2012

Lincoln Memorial University has named Parham Williams its new Interim Dean of the law school.   LMU is making another run at ABA accreditation after the ABA rejected  its application last…

I'm delighted to report that Sally Hadden and Patricia Minter's co-edited volume, Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History will be coming out from University of Georgia Press soon.  Cribbing now…

Mark Auslander's recent article in Southern Spaces, "Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones," shows that the stones used to build the original Smithsonian (now known as "The Castle")…

Rachel Van Cleave, who was appointed interim dean of Golden Gate University School of Law last August, has now been named the law school's permanent dean. She is a graduate…

Sick of Washington DC pizza and working as a federal employee, Harold Koh is apparently returning to New Haven next month.  He will rejoin the Yale Law faculty.  

Hiram Chodosh, the dean of the University of Utah College of Law, has been tapped as the new president of Claremont McKenna College.  He will leave Utah and move to…

The AALS has placed Villanova on two years of probation for reporting false admissions data to the ABA.  This is just further fallout from the story that surfaced almost two…

From an email that I received earlier today: Texas Tech University School of Law invites applications from exceptional individuals to fill several visiting faculty positions for the 2013-2014 academic year.  …

I know this is a radical idea so just go with me for a moment.  I only intend it is a thought experiment or hypo if you will. Over the…

My colleague Bill Turnier reminded me that today there is a new monument to African Americans who served the Confederate cause coming to Monroe, North Carolina (in Union County).  WUNC,…