Month: December 2013

Northeastern University law professor Kara W. Swanson's terrific study Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America will be published by Harvard University Press this coming…

Holloway, currently VP of CR Bard, Inc., will step into the deanship on Jan. 6.  More information is here.   

Well, usually I have building trivia questions that relate to legal history.  But I'm going to branch out some here to an old building that appeared in a music video…

The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award is Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon. Professor…

Busy times over at the ABA.  Following Rutgers-Camden Law's  ABA censure and fine a few weeks back, imposed because the substituted alternative tests in lieu of the LSAT without an ABA…

Over at Violent Metaphors, Jennifer Raff (Anthropology, Texas) offers her thoughts on How to Become Good at Peer Review: A Guide for Young Scientists.  Here are some of the basics…

I don't mean to be trivial, but it is the holiday season so I thought I'd ask this question. We often talk about the big issues affecting law schools at…

It's my pleasure to announce that Joshua Stein is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Josh holds a Ph.D. in history from UCLA, where…

Indiana University - Bloomington has named Southwestern Law School Professor Austen Parrish as its new law dean.  Over the past months,  Parrish served as interim dean of Southwestern University - between…

The debate on originalism and the conflicts between lawyers and historians are continuing.  Add to the Fordham Law Review symposium on the New Originalism and the Univeristyof Illinois Law Review's…