Month: April 2013

Brian Leiter briefly noted this news story claiming that Catholic University is considering instituting a 20% university-wide cut in operational expenditures as a result of declining law school revenue.  It appears…

The Rutgers University basketball coaching crisis has now made its mark on law schools.  Rutgers - Newark Dean John Farmer, the former attorney general of New Jersey, has been named…

From an email message I received earlier today: The University of Montana School of Law, one of the few law schools to see an increase in applications this year, will soon…

Bankruptcy judge J. Rich Leonard has been named the new law dean at Campbell.  Judge Leonard completed his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina, and he earned a…

(Yes, I am entertaining myself with alliteration as we slump towards the end of the semester) U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong has refused to dismiss the class action suit…

As the semester draws to a close, I'm sure many of us our thinking about scholarly projects for the summer.  I wondered if now would be a good time to…

I've taken the same data that Gary Rosin used in this post (which ranked schools by percentage employed in full-time, long-term jobs requiring a JD) and cleaned the list...by excluding ...

I think faculty lounge readers will be very interested in Annette Clark's thoughtful and thought-provoking reflection on the events surrounding her departure as dean at SLU, "Postscript to a Deanship,"…

Last week I talked some about Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History, which Sally Hadden and Patti Minter co-edited.  It has  just appeared from the University of Georgia Press (and…

I'm delighted to see that Florence Roisman's casebook on Property and Human Rights has appeared from Carolina Academic Press.  Cribbing now from the Press' website: This book contains materials regarding…