Month: September 2013

Thanks to Bill Turnier I see that the University of Virginia has formed a commission to study its connections to slavery.  Wow there's a lot to talk about there --…

I'm working on Harvard College v. Amory, 23 Mass.  446 (1830), today.  It is said to have articulated the prudent man rule in trust investment.  It won't suprise anyone that…

Here's a call for papers for the 2014 International Legal Ethics Conference VI, which will be held in London on July 10 – 12, 2014 at City Law School London.  Submissions are due at the…

From our colleagues "down under" (and especially Prof Colin Picker at UNSW) .... ============== "Members of the law school’s Legal Education Cluster have today launched a new blog on legal…

Judge Douglas Ginsburg, of the D.C. Circuit, is stepping up his relationship with George Mason University law school.  He has left the faculty of NYU Law, which he joined in…

Wash U. can't get no respect.  Notwithstanding its high status among academic insiders - for great undergrad and law programs, and a phenomenal med school - the Wall Street Journal…

Dean Kent Syverud of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law is  leaving to become Chancellor of Syracuse University.  Before joining Wash U., Syverud was dean of Vanderbilt Law…

Wendell Pritchett, who has served as Chancellor of Rutgers - Camden since 2009, will be stepping down at the end of this school year.  News reports indicate that he will…

I'm pleased to pass on the news that the 26th annual meeting of the Southern Intellectual History Circle will convene at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville on Thursday afternoon 20…

From our friends in Lubbock comes this announcement, which I received earlier today via email: Texas Tech University School of Law invites applications from exceptional individuals for a tenured or…