Month: March 2014

The LSAC reports that "As of 3/21/14, there are 307,854 fall 2014 applications submitted by 44,384 applicants. Applicants are down 9.2% and applications are down 10.0% from 2013.  Last year at this…

Updated August 23, 2014 It's that time again!  This year, I expect the numbers of lateral moves to be down.  Every year I say it, and I will again: I ...

Our friends over at The Conglomerate are hosting an online symposium for the next four days on Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., (the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow).  Though…

The University of Alberta Faculty of Law has named Paul Paton as its new dean.  Paton is currently on the faculty of McGeorge Law School and holds an LLB from Toronto…

Who knew?  Since 1977, LSU Law has operated as a separate campus of the LSU system.  That will soon change and, next year, the law school will be reabsorbed into…

I'm getting ready for a conference in a couple of weeks on the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  The University of Alabama is hosting it (the…

This just in:  The Taslitz Galaxy: A Gathering of Scholars at Howard Howard University School of Law is hosting a conference in honor of Andrew Taslitz. It is not a ...

Appalachian School of Law announced that it will downsize.  Dean Lucy McGough stated that the incoming class might number approximately 40 students with the law school moving closer to its…

Kevin Cieply, who is currently the Associate Dean of Academics at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, will take over as the Dean and President of Ave Maria Law School this…

Here's the final program for the University of Pittsburgh's symposium in honor of Derrick Bell, "Challenging Authority," which will be at the end of next week, March 27-28.  I'm very…