Month: August 2014

I am delighted to be in the Faculty Lounge, and I will soon take up Al’s invitation to post some observations about legal history.  But first, some comments about a ...

I'm delighted that Steven Lubet of Northwestern University's law school will be sitting with us for a spell.  Cribbing now from his website: Steven Lubet is the Williams Memorial Professor…

From an email message that I received yesterday: The UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW, Fayetteville, invites applications for the position of Associate Dean for Administration. The Associate Dean for…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 8/08/14, there are 352,406 fall 2014 applications submitted by 54,527 applicants. Applicants are down 6.7% and applications are down 8.2% from 2013.  Last…

The University of Alabama School of Law anticipates making at least one tenure-track appointment to its faculty, to begin in the 2015-2016 academic year. The Faculty Appointments Committee seeks applications…

I've spent some time talking about Cornelius Sinclair's odysessy, from free person in Philadelphia to temporarily enslaved person in Tuscaloosa, and then -- thanks to the intervention of ministers in…

Seriously.  Is anyone surprised by these stories?  Ivy League as a stop on the way to Wall Street?  One of my favorite lines from Jerold Auerbach's Unequal Justice is that Columbia Law…

A few weeks ago on my way home from Philadelphia I stopped by one of my new favorite towns to visit.   I was astonished to read on a plaque…

I am really delighted to mention that Jessica Thompson (UNC Law 2014) has an exciting paper on the trusts that North Carolina Friends employed in the 1810s and 1820s to manumit…

I'm following up on the decision of the University of Illinois not to extend an offer to Steven Salaita, the former Virginia Tech English professor who has been issuing "a…