Month: March 2014

From the University of Houston Law Dean Search webpage: =================== The Search Committee is pleased to announce the finalists for the position of Dean of the University of Houston Law…

The LSAC reports that "As of 3/7/14, there are 288,905 fall 2014 applications submitted by 42,068 applicants. Applicants are down 9.9% and applications are down 10.6% from 2013.  Last year at this…

Yale University has announced the reappointment of Dean Robert Post to an additional three year term, effective this summer.  Readers who have been eyeing this position will need to look…

Tanya Marsh of Wake Forest Law School has sent along a call for paper from The Federal Reserve System and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.  They invite paper submissions…

This photograph of a cemetery comes from Martha Jones of the University of Michigan.  You may recall Martha's contributed a few trivia questions before -- one for monuments and another…

St. Thomas University (FL) School of Law Dean Douglas Ray will stop down at from the helm this July.  He has been the dean since 2010.  He will be replaced…

It's my pleasure to announce that my friend Elizabeth Dale is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Elizabeth holds appointments in both the history…

I have the chance to take some pictures of a school from the era of Jim Crow earlier today.  This school's principal from the 1920s has some importance in the…

Mercer University Dean Gary Simson is moving on up.  He has been named the university's Senior Vice-Provost for Scholarship.  Simson came to Mercer from Case Law in 2010.  Mercer's former…

Late last week, Sarah Tran, a junior professor at SMU Law, passed away far too young.  One story of her remarkable commitment to her students notwithstanding her battle with leukemia is…