Month: April 2014

It might not seem like much for a school that was charging $53,850, but Brookyn Law has cut its tuition 15%, to $45,850, effective in the 2015-16 academic year.  It…

David Garrow has an essay review, "The Obscure Heroes Behind Congress’s Great Moment" at The American Prospect.  He discusses Clay Risen’s The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for…

Professor Malcolm Morris of Northern Illinois University School of Law has been named the new dean of Atlanta's John Marshall Law School.  He was the interim dean at NIU in…

From an email that I received earlier today from our friends in Lubbock: Texas Tech University School of Law invites applications from exceptional individuals for a tenured or tenure-track position…

LegalED is hosting its first conference called Igniting Law Teaching - a TEDx Styled Conference live - at American University Law - and online.  It's Friday, April 4, all day.  …

National Conference of Bar Examiners President Erica Moeser thinks it's worth considering - and she's not convinced by the argument that students need more than a month after the end…

The European Institute at the University College London is soliciting papers for a workshop scheduled for March 2015 that aims "to explore what political theorists can contribute to ... preparation"…

Last summer the North Carolina legislature passed a law banning the use of Sharia law in North Carolina courts.  The statute is an odd one .  It does not mention…

Last night, the ABA Section on Law School Accreditation and Review announced one of the most significant changes to law school accreditation standards in over twenty years.  By a split…