Month: May 2014

I keep trying to take a really decent picture  of a Confederate soldier monument. One of these days I'm going to bring a ladder out and get on eye level…

; This courthouse was built, I think, in 1860 -- so it's a very late antebellum courthouse.  (It may not have been completed until early 1861 -- there's some confusion…

Thanks to Will Baude, over at VC, for posting some of Justice Scalia's comments in his William & Mary College of Law graduation address.  Two particularly interesting comments by Scalia:…

I've been thinking a lot of late about the controversy in Lexington about the display of several Confederate battle flags in the Lee Chapel on Washington and Lee's campus.  As…

Just got this: The IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law/ Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize honors a work of scholarship that explores the tension between civil liberties and national security…

Since everyone else is talking about Saunders Hall on the UNC Campus I figured I should at least put up a picture of it.  I think I want to learn…

Kurt Schmoke, who served as dean of Howard Law School from 2002-12 (and was the first African-American mayor of Baltimore,  from 1987-99) has been appointed president of the University of…

The LSAC reports that "As of 5/09/14, there are 337,978 Fall 2014 applications submitted by 49,907 applicants. Applicants are down 8.3% and applications are down 8.9% from 2013.  Last year at this…

As a committee of South Carolina's Commission on Higher Education considers whether to approve InfiLaw's acquisition of Charleston School of Law, a large number of faculty members have now weighed…

If you're a university president with a leader like Nancy Rapoport on the faculty, why wouldn't you want to bring her on to lead your signature initiative designed to move…