Month: January 2015

University of Hawaii professor Danielle Conway has just been named Dean of the University of Maine's law school. Cribbing now from the university's announcement: Conway is the Michael J. Marks…

The article discusses lower admission standards at American law schools and the potential consequences thereof.  I, Jerry Organ, Jay Conison, Barry Currier (managing director of accreditation and legal education at…

The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel has just announced their eleventh annual student writing competition.  Applicants must be enrolled full-time or part-time in law school between August 15, 2014…

UPDATED 12/16 (The new and revised parts are in italics) As Alfred Brophy reports, once again law school applicants are down this year.  The number of applicants is down 8.5% ...

For tomorrow's 150th anniversary of Field Order 15, Bernadette Atuahene and I have an op-ed on the limits of land redistribution in South Africa and the Post-Civil War US.  Most…

In my last two posts, I introduced a new form of cross border kidney paired donation – Reverse Transplant Tourism (or “RTT”) -- that Mike Rees and I propose in…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 1/09/15, there are 135,408 fall 2015 applications submitted by 19,904 applicants. Applicants are down 8.5% and applications are down 10.8% from 2014.  Last year at…

Here is an announcement from my Durham neighbor Margurite Most, who is at Duke Law School:  The Legal History and Rare Books (LH&RB) Section of the American Association of Law…

Our friends at Boston College Law School, in collaboration with Koç University Law School (Turkey), invite submissions for a workshop on unamendable constitutional provisions.  Additional details are available here.

This week marks the 150th anniversary of General Sherman's Field Order 15.  Though this historical marker refers to January 12 (which the day that Sherman met in a nearby house…