Month: June 2013

While I'm thinking about Harvard's Graduate School of Education and their new dean, James Ryan, I also want to welcome Education Law Professor blog to the blogosphere.  The blog is…

From Cambridge (via my friend David Garrow) comes news that University of Virginia Law Professor James Ryan has just been appointed dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education.  Ryan's scholarship includes…

Florida Coastal Law has announced that Chidi Ogene will serve as the school's interim dean.  Ogene, who has been serving as general counsel of the InfiLaw system, holds a JD…

Ben Neiditz and Zach Webber constructed dwellings as part of their art exhibition at Fort Mifflin and Mud Island for the Hidden City Festival 2013 in Philly. This particular structure…

I was on a tour of an old Philadelphia synagogue, a shul named Congregation Shivtei Yeshuron-Ezras Israel, and discovered this old emply bottle of Marlboro Brand New York State Kosher…

I'm geting ready for some super-difficult trivia, which I promised a while back.  But first, where's this courthouse?  I don't think I'm making this too easy by saying that one…

Thomson-Reuters, having abandoned  its law school casebook division, apparently feels free now to alienate law schools and law professors.   Its Superlawyers division has announced plans to create law school rankings…

The German Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to fail to extend to partners in civil unions the income tax benefits enjoyed by married couples.  Here's how…

Last summer I wrote about Mary Ziegler's exciting article on the constitutional ideas of the anti-abortion movement in the 1970s.  I called the blog post "Bumper Sticker Popular Constitutionalism" to…

President Barack Obama has nominated Quinnipiac Professor Jeffrey Meyer to sit as a federal trial judge for the District of Connecticut.  Meyer has been at Quinnipiac since 2006 and is currently…