Month: March 2014

Professor Eduardo Peñalver of the University of Chicago has been named the new dean of Cornell Law School.  In yet another coming home story - following on Nancy Stoudt at…

The LSAC reports that "As of 3/14/14, there are 299,104 fall 2014 applications submitted by 43,026 applicants. Applicants are down 10.3% and applications are down 10.7% from 2013.  Last year at this…

She's back!  Professor Nancy Staudt, Vice-Dean of the University of Southern California law school,  will be returning to Washington University - this time as its new dean.  Staudt has a JD…

Loyola - Chicago Dean David Yellen was named by Cook County Presiding Judge Paul Biebel, to head up a search for prisoners  incarcerated as a result of torture-induced confessions.  …

SUNY Buffalo Law Dean Makau Mutua announced that the law school will reduce entering class size to 185-200 going forward. This isn't a radical change; in the last two years,…

Digging deep into my store of photographs I thought I'd post one from southeastern North Carolina.  Haunted or not?

University of Florida President Bernie Machen announced Friday that the school is ending its law school dean search for the year without making a hire.  We may never know the…

Temple University Professor Edward Ohlbaum passed away on Thursday.  Ohlbaum joined the Temple faculty in 1985.  He built a large reputation locally and nationally for his work in the area…

From an email that I received earlier today: Texas A&M University School of Law seeks applicants for one or more Visiting Professors for one or two semesters in the 2014-15…

At the end of this week the biennial conference C19 will be in Chapel Hill.  I'm very much looking forward to the panels and hearing about a lot of topics…