Month: May 2014

The ClassCrits VII conference,  Poverty, Precarity, and Work: Struggle and Solidarity in an Era of Permanent(?) Crisis, will be held at UC Davis  November 14-15, 2014.   Here is the…

Antonius Rickson Hippolyte  of the University of Hull has posted "Unearthing the Legitimacy of CARICOM's Reparations Bid" on ssrn.  Here is his abstract: Fourteen Caribbean countries, coalescing under the CARICOM banner,…

The University of Alabama landed a very big fish today, announcing that Professor Mark Brandon of Vanderbilt Law will be its new dean.  Mark is an Alabama Law graduate who…

From our friends at JOTWELL .... ============== Legal Scholarship We Like, and Why it Matters University of Miami School of Law November 7-8, 2014 JOTWELL, the Journal of Things We…

Dean Rebecca White, who has led the University of Georgia School of Law since 2004, has announced she is resigning.  Based on the current strength of the school, and a…

Derek Muller has created an interesting ranking of law schools - top to bottom - based on the percentage of the class landing federal clerkships (2011-13).  What's most intriguing about…

Steven Croley has been confirmed as the new general counsel of the US Department of Energy.  Croley is on the faculty of Michigan Law, but has been on leave since…

As I have been saying for some time now, the discussion of reparations in both domestic and international circles is returning.  This leads me to ask a second reparations trivia…

File this under a little bit unusual.  Interim Dean Susan Duncan of the University of Louisville law school has been given a three year extension of her position of interim…

This is the president's house of a major southern university. It was built in the 1830s -- mighty impressive, isn't it? Where is it?