Month: April 2014

I'm pleased to announced that Stephen M. Sheppard will become the the eighth law dean in St. Mary's University 87-year history.  Stephen -- in addition to being a legal historian -- is…

Via the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, an interesting new series of papers on “Socio-Legal Perspectives on Wills and Inheritance,” edited by Daniel Monk (Birkbeck, University of…

The LSAC reports that "As of 4/25/14, there are 333,004 Fall 2014 applications submitted by 48,698 applicants. Applicants are down 8.3% and applications are down 9.2% from 2013.  Last year at this…

Here's an interesting call for papers: The editorial board of the New Mexico Law Review (“NMLR”) is soliciting articles for a special issue dedicated to the exploration of legal issues…

Dean Linda Ammons, who has led both campuses of Widener University School of Law for the past eight years, is stepping down at the end of the school year.  She…

Following up on my post from last February on Ben Chabot's and Mitu Gulti's "Santa Anna and His Black Eagle: The Origins of Pari Passu?," here's the latest on pari…

In case you haven't seen this... A new study by the consulting firm Nextions looks at  the role of unconscious race bias in the assessment of attorney writing quality.  …

I'm delighted to report that the University of Houston Law Center has named Leonard M. Baynes, currently Professor of Law and the inaugural Director of The Ronald H. Brown Center…

      Although this Google ad I came upon is real, the claim cannot be literally true.  It isn't.  Cooley actually requires some undergraduate study; among other candidates for…

The 2015 AALS Panel of the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues (SOGII) is “Transgender Equality: Prisons, Workplace, and Academic Institutions.” One speaker on this panel will be…