Month: August 2014

This morning I read, in the WSJ, that an astronomical 75 million people are struggling under unpaid medical debt.  "More than half of all debt-collection activity comes from medical bills,…

Let's see, there's Simon Legree, the fictional slaveowner who tortured Uncle Tom to death; there's Edwin Epps, who was Solomon Northup's final owner during his Twelve Years a Slave.  And…

William Mitchell College of Law, in St. Paul, Minnesota, is search for a new leader to replace the outgoing Eric Janus.  The position is President and Dean of the free-standing…

A few weeks back when I was in the land of hoagies and Wawas (as Governor Romney called them when he was on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania), I stopped…

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was in China this summer on a variety of work-related activities, including attending a conference in Shanghai, visiting alumni in China and…

Was it his politics or his uncivil behavior? According to this report from Inside Higher Education, Steven Salaita - formerly a controversial English professor at Virginia Tech - was offered…

Case Western Reserve Law has announced that its Interim Co-deans - Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf - will continue to lead the law school next year.  And apparently the school…

In my continuing discussion of Cornelius Sinclair's journey from freedom to slavery in Alabama, back to freedom I want to focus now on the judge at his trial in Tuscaloosa.…

George Mason University School of Law has now announced its dean search.   Screening of candidates will begin September 22, 2014, and continue until an appointment is made. The full posting…

Publisher Jane Friedman says (here) that a good non-fiction book proposal should have these component parts: Cover page and the proposal’s table of contents Overview Target market Competitive analysis Author…