Month: September 2014

Dean Makau Mutua, who has led Buffalo Law for seven years, will be stepping down from the deanship this December. Dean  Mutua made some size adjustments in the law school and…

From an email that I received a few days ago: The University of New Mexico ("UNM") School of Law invites applications for a faculty position in the UNM Clinical Law…

University of Tulsa law dean Janet Levit will step down at the end of this school year.  She has led the school since 2007.  

They are: Lonnie Brown and Bo Rutledge from UGA, Mike Gerhardt from UNC, and  Mark McKenna from Notre Dame. H/T Paul Caron.

If there is one thing all US law schools teach, it is how to ‘think like a lawyer.’ Edward Rubin, in his penetrating article Why Law Schools Do Not Teach…

Yesterday, my colleagues and I received very good news.  Philadelphia attorney Tom Kline has given the law school a $50 million naming gift.  The school will now be called the…

What do lawyers do? What do lawyers need to do well in order to succeed? These are pretty key questions for legal educators, I think. The amazing thing is, we ...

First off happy Constitution Day!  Second, I'm delighted to announce that Rebecca J. Scott, the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of…

It's going to drop 13% for Ohioans and Michiganders, and 8% for out-of-staters.  The new stickers: $17,900 and $31,074, respectively.

Professor Sarah Deer, of William Mitchell College of Law, has been named one of this year's MacArthur Fellows.  Deer, a graduate of Kansas Law, is active as both a scholar…