Month: August 2013

Further to the discussion in the comments to Bernie Burk's post last week about numbers of jobs for lawyers in the United States, a reader sent along this list taken…

The AALS Section on Law and Religion has extended its Call for Papers deadline.  You may now submit a paper or abstract by September 1 for the panel entitled Cooperating…

ASU Law is holding its (gasp!) Fifth Annual Aspiring Law Professors Conference on September 28, 2013 in Tempe.  Christine Hurt of the University of Illinois law faculty, a law prawf…

This one's a little easier than the last building trivia question (the Caleb Pusey house in Chester, Pennsylvania), but I took it from a different perspective than you usually see…

It's my plesaure to announce that Sarah Lynnda Swan is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Sarah is a law graduate of the University…

Georgia State University law professor Paul Lombardo and Peter Hardin have an op-ed urging the Virginia legislature to compensate victims of the state's sterilization program.  Lombardo is the author of…

We're past the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg battle and that means the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg address is close.   Lincoln remade the world with that address, and…

Dean Robert Jerry has announced that he will be stepping down from the law school deanship at the University of Florida at the end of this school year.  He has…

Reading Alex London's new YA dystopian novel, Proxy, this weekend, I couldn't stop thinking about this description of what the future of classroom teaching might look like. The book has…

On Friday, the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar approved the sale of Fort Worth's Texas Wesleyan Law School to Texas A&M University.  It sounds like…