Month: August 2014

This just in: The Central States Law Schools Association 2014 Scholarship Conference will be held on Friday, October 10 and Saturday, October 11 at the Louisiana State University Law Center…

As I'm sitting here editing a chapter on student literary societies and their magazines, I'm happy to report that Rob Luther sent along a most exciting link recently.  It's to a…

This week the UNC administration announced the members of the search committee for the new dean of Carolina Law.  They are as follows:  Michael R. Smith, Dean UNC School of…

 I want to announce the "Call for Participation Twelfth Annual LatCrit-SALT Junior Faculty Development Workshop," which will be held at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV on October 9, 2014.  Cribbing now…

From conference organizers: Dear Friends and Colleagues, We would like to invite you to a working-paper conference that we are planning to hold in the days before the AALS mid-year…

Robert Anderson of Pepperdine has a terrific post up at Witnesseth that uses google rankings for law reviews.  It's definitely worth a look (and I'm happy that it fits closely…

There are fewer folks going on the AALS market this year, according to this data over at Prawfs, but there will always be aspiring law professors.  And for the sixth…

Luís Chiesa (SUNY Buffalo) has published a new casebook, Substantive Criminal Law: Cases, Comments and Comparative Materials (Carolina Academic Press 2014).  Here is a description from the publisher's website: The…

As I've previously noted, the ABA has deferred a final call on Concordia Law's provisional accreditation pending a report from a new factfinder.  Since the Idaho Supreme Court declined to…

The best thing one can say about Rev. Bruce M. Shipman, the Episcopal chaplain at Yale, is that he does not bother to disguise his beliefs.  In response to a ...