Month: June 2014

This morning's Washington Post brings news that Duke University has  renamed a dormitory on its campus that was named for North Carolina Governor Charles Aycock.  Cribbing now from the Post article:…

I'm very much looking forward to reading Tim Williams' Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South, which will appear from UNC Press this November.  Cribbing now a little from…

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is conducting an international search for its new dean.  Given that Canada seems to be supplying many of our new law school deans…

That's the question that Reuben Seay's gravestone in the Greenboro, Alabama cemetery asks.  While it might fit very well with the era of the market revolution, I suspect it's more…

The American Bar Association has named William E. Adams Jr. as the new Deputy Managing Director of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.  Adams takes over for Scott Norberg…

The brand-new AALS Section on Election Law is calling for two papers for its January 2015 panel at the annual Association of American Law Schools conference in DC.  The panel,…

Where is this one?  (Once we get this figured out, I want to talk a little bit about the architect.)

Stephen Clowney will know this -- we've had a meal in this building.  But I'm guessing most other faculty lounge readers will say, "what the heck is this?"  Where is…

With fewer and fewer law school applicants, schools are working to attract students from the one state that has no law school: Alaska.  Recently, Willamette Law announced a 3+3 with…

Interim Dean Jocelyn Benson, of Wayne State University School of Law, has been named the school's permanent dean.  According the the Wayne State presser, Benson, who holds a JD from…