Month: October 2013

Rutgers-Camden law dean Rayman Solomon has been named the new provost of Rutgers-Camden, effective January 1, 2014, for an eighteen month appointment.  He will remain as law school dean until…

LSAC has now released data about the number of people who sat for the October LSAT.  The total number of takers was down 10.9% from October 2012.  The number of…

Updated and finalized August 23, 2014 It's time for the new list.  I'll start with what I know, and look forward to hearing of additional searches from our readers.  Please…

Recently, I heard the surprising and wonderful news that considerable progress has been made on the restoration of Owens Lake and the Lower Owens River.  Some of you may remember…

I've not heard of this bill before, but I am intrigued by this: No publicly owned monument erected, constructed, created, or maintained on real property owned by an agency or…

I'm a little behind the times in mentioning this New York Times story about Glenn Hutchins' gift of $15 million to Harvard to create the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research.…

My colleague Dana Remus has posted her article, "Out of Practice: The Twenty-First Century Legal Profession," which is forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal.  Cribbing now from Remus' abstract: Lawyering…

The Michigan Journal of Race and Law, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary soon, has posted a call for papers for its symposium, "The Highest Tribute": The Michigan Journal of Race…

Professor Evan J. Criddle of William and Mary has posted "A Sacred Trust of Civilization: Fiduciary Foundations of International Law" on ssrn.  It is forthcoming in Andrew Gold's & Paul Miller's Philosophical Foundations…

    Dominicans of Haitian descent protest the decision to strip them of citizenship. AP In the midst of our domestic distraction with Obamacare and the destructive and just-ended federal…