Month: January 2013

From the ABA's Task Force on the Future of Legal Education: The Task Force on the Future of Legal Education has been charged with developing a report and set of…

There isn't a ton of new material,  but I've updated this year's dean search list here.

How in the world did I miss this story?  

This just in from our friends in St. Louis: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for its Clinic Faculty Fellows program. The fellowship is designed to train talented lawyers…

The other day I reported that SMU decided not to renew the contract of Dean John Attanasio.  Attanasio has been dean since 1998.  Yesterday, the ABA Journal reported that a…

Governor Andrew Cuomo  named Professor Jenny Rivera, who has been a member of the CUNY Law faculty since 1997, to the New York Court of Appeals.  She graduated from NYU…

Washburn Law Associate Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz has been named the new dean at the University of Arkansas - Little Rock School of Law.  Schwartz, who holds a JD from…

It is with great sadness that I write about the sudden passing of a terrific historian and a very generous and humane man, Robert F. Engs.  Dr. Engs was educated…

It's my pleasure to post the following call for nominations for the Cromwell Foundation's article prize in American legal history for early career scholars: The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation has…

Southern Methodist University has decided not to extend the term of Dean John Attanasio.  He contract runs out in May.   The news was reported last week in the Dallas…