Month: July 2013

From an email message that I received earlier today from UMKC law professors Nancy Levit and Allen Rostron: We just updated our charts about law journal submissions, expedites, and rankings…

Huff Post reports on the decimation of Federal Defender offices here.   Amazingly, the damage is only beginning - more significant cuts are expected in the near future.  It's hard…

Well, it looks like the state budget is going to set $10 million aside to compensate victims of the North Carolina sterilization program.  The best recent article on this appeared…

South Carolina law prof Colin Miller (a friend of the blog and an Oscar trivia master) has updated and posted his Submission Guide for Online Law Review Supplements on SSRN. …

While everyone thinks of Thomas Gray as Nat Turner's lawyer, the person who was listed in court records as Turner's lawyer was a more obscure figure: James Strange French.  He…

I may be misremembering this, but I'm sure colleagues at some other schools have told me in the past that for P&T and/or appointments processes, external review letters are required…

The AALS Section on Defamation and Privacy invites papers for its program on “Children’s Privacy Rights Against their Parents” for the Annual Meeting, to be held on January 2-5, 2014.…

How's that for a provocative question?  Actually, my question is whether Thomas Ruffin Gray, who published The Confessions of Nat Turner was gay.  Before I get to why I have…

Early this year, San Jose State announced that it was entering into an agreement with online course provider, Udacity, in which Udacity would provide a number of online courses to…

Donald Tibbs of Drexel Law School was on Marty Moss-Coane's Radio Times yesterday morning talking about the George Zimmerman case.  Shaun Harper, Director of the Center for the Study of…