Month: December 2014

The ABA Standard 509 Information Report was a major step forward for law school transparency.  (Note - the reports on all ABA-Accredited law schools can be found here)  The reports ...

In recognition of the release of the SSCI Report, I thought I would share a couple of pieces that I wrote about the torture of a detainee that I represented…

I have just heard the sad news that Sacvan Bercovitch has passed away. He was for many years a professor of literature at Harvard (and towards the end of his…

This past weekend, the ABA's Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar decided to delay consideration of InfliLaw's application to buy Charleston School of Law…

Professor Tracy Reilly of the University of Dayton School of Law has just been appointed Director of the School's Program in Law and Technology by Dean Paul McGreal. Details here.…

The Yale, Stanford, and Harvard Junior Faculty Forum has posted its call for papers.  Cribbing now from the CFP: Yale, Stanford, and Harvard Law Schools announce the 16th session of…

The following is a guest post by Bernadette Atuahene: Today is the first anniversary of Nelson Mandela's death.  He became an international icon because he chose reconciliation and forgiveness over…

I was traveling last month and managed to miss this dean news nugget.  St. Johns Law Professor Paul Kirgis was named the new dean of the University of Montana School…

The LSAC reports that "As of 11/28/14, there are 70,009 fall 2015 applications submitted by 11,415 applicants. Applicants are down 8.5% and applications are down 9.5% from 2014.  Last year at this…

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the OECD Regulatory Policy Division, together with the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) and the Rethinking Regulation program at Duke University recently held a conference on Improving Risk Regulation:…