Month: May 2014

In honor of Memorial Day I have a monument trivia question.  This is a picture of a monument that has personal significance for me.  I had the chance to visit…

It's my pleasure to announce that Wes Oliver of Duquesne University's law school will be sitting with us for a spell in the faculty lounge.  Wes is Associate Professor and Criminal…

As I was thinking about the Confederate flag controversy in the Lee Chapel it dawned on me that I'm not so bothered by the British flag on public property --…

From an email message that I received this week: The School of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City is seeking qualified candidates for a visiting faculty position to teach…

New Penn State President Eric Barron - formerly of Florida State - spoke about the state of legal eduation and his hopes for Penn State Law.  He conceded the big…

LSAC settled, yesterday, with plaintiffs who alleged that the organization failed to properly accomodate test takers with disabilities and that it discriminated against test takers with disabilities by specially noting…

The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, at Northwestern Law, is hosting a symposium this fall entitled: Champion of Justice: A Celebratory Event to Honor Rob Warden's Quest to Free the…

Further to my recent blogging on the controversy over the display of Confederate flags at the Lee Chapel, I want to have a (somewhat) related trivia question.  The image at…

Score one for opponents of InfiLaw's efforts to buy Charleston School of Law. The Committee on Academic Affairs and Licensing of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, voted 3-1…

Dean John Boger, who has lead UNC Law since 2006, has announced that he will step down as the school's dean as of July 2015.  He will return to the…