Month: May 2013

The University of Idaho has named associate dean Michael Satz as its interim dean of the law school.  Satz, who holds a JD from the University of Michigan, joined the…

University of Arizona law school interim dean Marc Miller has been named the law school's permanent dean.  Miller, who came to Arizona in 2006 after seventeen years on the Emory…

The American Society for Legal History announces the Paul Murphy Award to support the completion of a book on the history of civil liberties that addresses any topic or any ...

Caroline Janney's just published book, Remembering the Civil War, poses a major challenge to how we understand the process of  reunification after the Civil War.  Recall that David Blight argued in Race…

From an email that I received earlier today: The University of Montana invites applications and nominations for a Dean to lead its School of Law as it begins the second century of its…

Cornell Law Dean Stewart Schwab has announced that he will be stepping down as of June 2014.  Schwab assumed the deanship in 2004 and has been on Cornell's faculty since…

On a recent trip I went out to Amelia County Courthouse.  I wanted a picture of the Confederate monument there.  (The courthouse was built in 1924, so it's too recent…

I think you'll enjoy this Radio Times podcast of Richard Rubin's interview on his book The Last of the Doughboys.  And speaking of World War I -- and in honor…

Yxta Maya Murray at Loyola Law School has passed along a call for papers for a conference on Law, Peace, and Violence: Jurisprudence and the Possibilities of Peace next March at Seattle…

The newest LSAC volume summary is out and there is good news for those working in law school admissions offices: applications are up.  Of course, they're not actually up compared…