I’ve written about incentives and organ donation on a number of occasions here at the Lounge (see, for example, here and here). I spent Monday and Tuesday of this week…
Via Paul Caron, Inside Higher Ed reports on a study published in Research in Higher Education which outlines the costs associated with a university's efforts to climb the U.S. News National…
At the request of a South Carolina state senator, InfiLaw has withdrawn its request for a license to operate Charleston Law. The story is not over, however. InfiLaw stated that…
The only news about this story is the specifics . The new University of Minnesota budget includes a commitment of $2.2 million to cover a large portion of the law…
The South Carolina Attorney General's office has issued an advisory opinion regarding scope of issues properly considered by the state's Commission on Higher Education when evaluating InfiLaw's proposal to buy…
Details are very sketchy at this point, but the University of Maine is exploring the possibility of merging its law and business schools into the Alfond Graduate and Professional Center…
Not sure how I missed this. Earlier this year, activists stood up in the Supreme Court to protest the Court's campaign finance decisions. But one of the most interesting aspects…
From our friends at the University of Tennessee comes news of their law dean search. Cribbing now from the announcement. The University of Tennessee invites applications and nominations for…
Surely my favorite citation in the Supreme Court's decision today in Bond v. US. The Court held that the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act could not be used to prosecute…
"The primary cause of this situation lies in the fact that law schools have failed to perform their function of nurturing the legal profession." More news about the dramatic 80%…