Month: December 2014

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 12/12/14, there are 88,926 fall 2015 applications submitted by 13,816 applicants. Applicants are down 9.1% and applications are down 10.5% from 2014. Last…

I've been enjoying reading Khaled A. Beydoun's new article on Muslims in the Pre-Civil War south and in particular their relationship to law. It is called "Antebellum Islam."  Cribbing now…

I am saddened and stunned to report that legal historian Judith Kelleher Schafer has passed away. Judith was one of the first people I met when I attended my very…

She's got an interesting piece up, The Trouble with Teaching Rape Law, over at the New Yorker.  I think almost every crim prof spends some time strategizing about whether, and…

Professor James Gardner of SUNY Buffalo School of Law has been named interim dean of the law school, succeeding Makau Mutua.  He takes over at the end of the month.…

I have posted an article on Salon about Justice Antonin Scalia's recent comments on torture.  The title is Scalia's Torture Debacle, and the link is here.  Here are the opening…

For people inclined to burn time poking around law school admissions data, the ABA's annual treasure trove - 509 reports from every law school - can now be found at…

From an email message that I received earlier today: The Faculty of Law at Queen’s University invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor,…

Dissenting in Alvarez v. Tracy, in which a panel upheld the lower court's denial of a habeas petition: I have read the opinion many times and disagree with pretty much everything…

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