Month: May 2013

From our friends at Wake Forest comes this announcement: Wake Forest University School of Law welcomes applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) to teach Civil Procedure in the 2013-2014…

No sooner have I written about jurisprudence and Django than I see that everyone's talking about The Great Gatsby.  Perhaps it's time to revisit a property question from the book,…

Robert Leider has a very exciting paper up on ssrn, "Our Non-Originalist Right to Bear Arms: How Public Opinion Has Shaped the Second Amendment."  Cribbing now from his abstract: District ...

Professor David Herring, from the University of Pittsburgh, has been named the new dean of the University of New Mexico law school.  Herring, who served as dean of Pitt from…

Saint Louis University President Rev. Lawrence Biondi announced, yesterday, that he will be retiring as President.  After all the tumult at SLU, plenty of law professors (among many others) are…

Greg Alexander has a paper up on ssrn, "Unborn Communities," that engages a topic of much interest to me: whether we owe a duty to future generations.  I blogged about…

This week, Bloomberg Business Week published a graphic showing "underemployment range of the 20 cheapest vs. most expensive law schools."  Unfortunately, their editors didn't know the difference between NYU Law…

As Karen Tani and Paul Horwitz have pointed out, the new Michigan Law Review book review issue is out.  I think book reviews can serve a really importance function of…

Susan Westerberg Prager, the executive director and chief executive officer of the AALS - and former dean of UCLA Law School - has announced that she will be leaving Washington,…

Fordham University history professor Saul Cornell, George Mason University law professor Joyce Lee Malcom, and Craig Whitney, former foreign correspondent at the New York Times discuss the second amendment on…