Month: April 2013

NYU has named Columbia law professor Trevor Morrison as its new law dean.  Morrison's areas of expertise include constitutional law, federal courts, separation of powers, and executive branch legal interpretation. …

The following vignette is a great example of why we should be quite skeptical of judging the quality of an article by how many citations it has.... I'm writing a…

In an earlier thread about incentivizing law review placements, an interesting sub-discussion emerged after I suggested that one of the problems with tenure is that it potentially disincentivizes faculty from…

Professor Rick Bales of Northern Kentucky University School of Law has been selected as the new law school dean at Ohio Northern University.  Bales, who holds a JD from Cornell, joined…

The Western Michigan University Thomas Cooley School of Law?  Could happen, if the current proposal for a new formal alliance is approved.  They would remain separate institutions, formally, with separate governance…

We're very pleased to welcome Professor Jeff Redding to the Faculty Lounge this month.  Jeff is an assistant professor at Saint Louis University School of Law.  He teaches civil procedure…

Update: I erroneously left off Corps in the initial post; I've added it to the list. I've been taking a look at Sarah Lawsky's entry level hiring list over at…

Thomas Guernsey, a member of the faculty at Albany Law School and Albany's dean from 2002-11, has been named the new President and Dean of Thomas Jefferson School of Law.…

I'm delighted to announce that the Companion to American Legal History that Sally Hadden and I have been co-editing for the last few years is now available in ebook format and…

I've been blogging for some time now about how reparations talk is persisting in the academy.  And now I want to call attention to another sign that the discussion of…