Month: March 2013

Carla Spivack of Oklahoma City University's law school has a new paper up on ssrn, "Killers Shouldn't Inherit from Their Victims . . . Or Should They?"  Here is the…

Now that we're hitting the  AALS deadlines, I'm hearing a bit more about lateral law school faculty moves.  We're seeing multiple hires at two major state universities: Maryland and Utah.…

I'm coming late to the discussion of Ted Cruz' allegations (at a Fourth of July address, no less!) that there were a bunch of communists on the Harvard Law School…

From an email message that I received earlier today: The University of Mississippi School of Law announces the creation of the MacArthur Justice Clinic, the law school's ninth clinical program.…

We welcome Jim Hawkins into the Lounge, as a guest for the month.  Jim is an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches in the…

Ray Nimmer stepped down as dean of the University of Houston Law Center this week.  The new interim dean is Richard Alderman.

...at least if Rutgers President Robert Barchi has his way.  (Limited) details here.  The proposal will apparently call for the two schools to keep their existing campuses.