Month: April 2014

This just in: Brooklyn Law School is seeking outstanding applicants for the position of Director of the Legal Writing Program. The duties of the Director will include 1) hiring, training,…

Professor Jon Garon of Northern Kentucky University law school has been named the new dean of Nova Southeastern Law School, effective this summer.  Garon is currently the director of NKU's Law…

Everyone is talking about several requests by law students at W&L (collectively known as "The Committee") regarding the memory of the Confederacy and President Lee on that campus.  abovethelaw was…

The Association of American Law Schools Section on Contracts has issued a call for papers for its panel at the January 2015 Annual Meeting.  The panel topic is Mind the…

There has been a lot of web chatter about a recent proposal, approved by the University of Oregon Law faculty, requesting that raise money be diverted from faculty members to…

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Digging deep in my files here for a picture of a university chapel.  This one is quite famous.  What is it and where is it?

Congratulations to University of Virginia history professor Alan Taylor on the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2014 for his expansive volume, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832.  The prize…

Paul Caron has blog traffic numbers up here.

I want to remind readers that the American Society for Legal History annually awards several scholarships to emerging scholars in honor of Kitty Preyer, who was a belowed and distinguished…