Month: January 2015

Professor Stewart Harris of Appalachian School of Law hosts a weekly public radio discussion of law and often history, known as "Your Weekly Constitutional."  This week his discussion is about…

Joseph Blocher and Mitu Gulati have just posted a paper on "The Market for Sovereign Control." Cribbing now from their abstract: Across the world, many regions are located in the…

Our friends in Durham pass along an announcement that Duke seeks to fill a Clinical Fellow/Supervising Attorney position in its International Human Rights Clinic beginning in the Summer of 2015. …

Digging deep in my stock of nineteenth century university buildings here.... Faculty are asking that this building, which was built at the end of the nineteenth century and then renamed…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 1/23/15, there are 168,887 fall 2015 applications submitted by 24,097 applicants. Applicants are down 7.3% and applications are down 9.8% from 2014.  Last…

University of Dayton Law Dean Paul McGreal has been named the new dean of Creighton's law school.  He will take over in July.  McGeal became dean of Dayton in 2011.…

This Friday, at the Friday Center here in Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation will host its annual symposium.  This year the topic is "The Changing…

I signed up to guest at Prawfs this month and - what do you know - I haven't managed to get much momentum going.  Today, though, I posted some thoughts…

Given some sharp comments after my last post about law professors using Twitter, I decided to see if there's anything the data has to say about it. The comments I've ...

Today the ALI announced the election of 26 new members.  Among the new members are these academics: California R. Anthony Reese, Irvine – Professor, University of California, Irvine School of…