Month: May 2014

In my earlier post today, I noted that Moody's placed schools in quartiles based on porption of class employed.  Here are the top 25 law schools ranked using the methodology:…

Earlier this week, Moody's Investors Service issued a report entitled Law Schools Challenged to Adapt to Fundamental Changes in the Legal Industry.  They offer three crucial take-aways: 1. "Fundamental shift…

Leave it to an alternative weekly newpaper, the Cleveland Scene,  to do extensive reporting on the Dean Lawrence Mitchell fiasco at CWRU.  The good news for Mitchell is that he…

This just in: Valparaiso University Law School is seeking a full-time, one-semester visitor for Fall 2014 to teach Contracts and an additional course, the nature of which is negotiable. Because…

This just in: The Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, Maurice Deane School of Law at Hofstra University is sponsoring a conference entitled Lawyers as Targets: Suing, Prosecuting and…

The ABA has announced the creation of a new task force on financing legal education.  It will be led by Dennis Archer, the former Mayor of Detroit, and includes Incoming…

Dean Robert Rasmussen of the University of Southern California law school will be stepping down at the end of the next academic year.  He was appointed in 2007 and next…

After my recent critique of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog's coverage of law school employment data, I received a nice note from Joe Palazzolo - one of the post's…

The University of California - Berkeley School of Law announced today that its new dean will be Sujit Choudhry.  He holds an LLB from the University of Toronto and a…

Norman Poser's Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013) was reviewed recently in the Wall Street Journal.  Mansfield is best known among legal historians as the author…