Month: July 2014

Here is the announcement: The University of Maine School of Law invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the position of Dean, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2015.…

The Ninth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) will be held November 7-8, 2014 at Berkeley Law.  The Call for Papers has been extended to July 22, 2014.  More…

Very excited about Heidi Rickes' new article on ideas about law and political theory in circulation on the campus of Davidson College from its founding in the late 1830s to…

CLEA will hold its annual meeting at the University of Toronto September 19-20, 2014.  The Call for Papers is here.  Submissions are due July 15, 2014.

I'm out of Chapel Hill today doing some archival work.  This building, which is credited with inspiring the Empire State Building, is in the city where I'm working.  Where is…

The AALS is organizing a cr0ss-cutting session at the January 2015 meeting entitled The More Things Change…Exploring Solutions to Persisting Discrimination in Legal Academia.  The organizers have already planned a panel and…

UT President William Powers - the former dean of Texas Law - has had a challenging tenure as the head of the university.  Recently, the law school has come under…

This announcement just came in: The Second International Congress on Legal Education, hosted by Hacettepe University Faculty of Law in Anakara, Turkey, will be held November 19-22, 2014. As in the United…

I'm  delighted to report that a study that Doug Thie and I have been working on for what seems like forever, "Land, Slaves, and Bonds: Trust and Probate in the…

Now that Peter Alexander is out, Indiana Tech Law is searching for a new dean.  The position announcement is here. אױ גװאַלד