Month: February 2014

Following up on the extended conversation about Albany Law's financial exigency, there is more news out of Albany.  Yesterday, Dean Penelope Andrews announced that it will offer eight faculty members…

I suppose that every academic has a special place in her heart for the school that first took her in and nurtured her during those early, formative years.  Or at…

Dean Michael Fitts of the University of Pennsylvania Law School has apparently emerged as the most likely candidate to become the next president of Tulane University.  Details here. Update: Michael…

Some South Carolina state legislators are looking to block InfiLaw's acquisition of Charleston Law School.  They've asked the state's Commission on Higher Education to nix the deal, pointing to InfiLaw's…

I'm teaching Hermitage Methodist Homes of Virginia, 387 S.E.2d 740 (Va. 1990), later today in property.  That deals with a bequest by Powell Hill "Jack"Adams to a series of educational institutions, beginning…

In my last few posts, I’ve been discussing the controversy generated by Gary Becker and Julio Elias’s recent essay advocating for kidney markets, Cash for Kidneys: The Case for a…

In honor of Black History Month I thought I'd post a picture of the Cater G. Woodson School, named after the founder of (what was then known as) Negro History…