Month: March 2013

This time, she drops the "interim".  Annette Clark, seven months past the SLU debacle, has now been named dean of Seattle University School of Law.  Clark, who served as interim dean…

The ALI just elected 40 new members.  Among them are these law profs: Curtis Bradly (Duke) Samuel Bufford (Penn State Dickinson) Dan Burk (Irvine) Alyssa DiRusso (Cumberland) Nita Farahany (Duke)…

There's nothing in the new LSAC current volume summary to make law school admissions officers happy, but applications are now down by a lesser amount than they had been in prior…

I'm delighted to report that Kathryn Fort, who teaches at Michigan State's law school and is also a staff attorney with MSU"s Indigenous Law and Policy Center, is stepping into…

Here's a pretty exciting idea, which I guess some number of people are experimenting with -- crowd sourcing peer review.  Ohio University Press will be publishing soon a volume called…

Professor Jeffrey Standen, the associate dean for faculty at Willamette University College of Law, has been named the new dean at Northern Kentucky University College of Law.  Standen, who received…

I see fromClara Altman at the legal history blog that Tracy Thompson's The New Mind of the South is getting some serious attention (like in the LA Times).  I'm a…

I don't even really have anything to say about this, but found it sufficiently amusing that I took a photo to share with Lounge readers.  Perhaps Jim Hawkins can use…

If you have a moment to catch an HBO film called "Banished," please do so. It is powerful and features leading legal experts Sherrilyn Ifill and Al Brophy. Kudos to…

Well, I have returned to Chapel Hill to find that there's talk again of compensation to North Carolina's sterilization victims.  Already there's opposition brewing in the North Carolina Senate, where…