Month: February 2014

Her name is Rachel Miller-Ziegler.  And she probably knows a hell of a lot more about Argon than you do.

The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education is pleased to open nominations for its 2015 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2013, the inaugural award honored Justice Ruth…

A fun public panel in Ottawa tomorrow night, in case any Loungers happen to be in the neighborhood . . . 

Following up on my recent posts on LSAC data on LSAT administrations and applications for fall 2014, I wanted to call attention to these statements from the LSAC:  "As of 1/31/14, there are 209,007 fall…

Last October I mentioned that a group of law professors were circulating a letter on the ABA's review of tenure standards.  My Durham neighor Nairessa Smith tells me that the…

Texas A&M Law, the school formerly known as Texas Wesleyan, has named four finalists in its dean search.  They are Leonard Baynes (St. John's), Beto Juarez (Denver), Andy Morriss (Alabama)…

The University of Detroit Mercy has appointed Phyllis Crocker its new law school dean, effective this summer.  Crocker is currently a professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State.…

In honor of black history month I have a picture of an African American church from the 1820s.  (Or maybe it's actually a reconstruction of an African American church from…

News here. 

They are, apparently, Florida International University law dean Alex Acosta, Dean David Brennen of Kentucky Law, Professor Samuel Donaldson from Georgia State Law, and David Huebner, the former U.S. Ambassador…