Month: September 2013

Dean Athornia Steele is stepping down as dean of the Nova Southeastern law school.  He joined Nova in August 2008 after having served as the dean at Capital University Law…

Many of us with ties to the University of Alabama have been watching the unfolding of Tuscaloosa's outrageous school board election story.  To put it briefly, incumbent Kelly Horwitz -…

When I was on the entry-level market some years back, a number of hiring committees used the large cohort of tenure-track faculty at their schools as a selling point, stressing…

Professor Colleen Chien of Santa Clara Law School has been appointed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).  She will be advising Todd Park, the Unites…

Here's the program for the conference "Trusts and Estates Meets Class, Gender, and Race," at Oklahoma City University on September 28. 8:30-9:00, A Trusts and Estates Research Agenda: Tony Infanti…

I'm a pack rat and one collection that I carry with me from place to place is my grandfather's 1936 Encyclopedia Britannica.  Once in a while I pull a volume ...

Today is the fiftieth anniversay of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.  Back in 2002 when I was teaching at the University of Alabama I went…

Dean Michelle Simon, who has lead Pace University School of Law since 2007 (and permanently since 2008) is stepping down from the school's deanship.  Simon became an assistant professor at…

Given that this week has seen two articles in the New York Times about my former institution, the University of Alabama, I feel like I need to acknowledge them.  First…

I have just learned the sad news that Sheldon Hackney passed away last Thursday.  He was a professor of history at Princeton and later in life president of the University…