Month: January 2015

In the clips below, Laura Hillenbrand (author of Unbroken and Seabiscuit) explains some of the extraordinary difficulties of living with Myalgic Encelphalomyelitis /Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).  She is often unable to stand or…

From an email that I received earlier today: Lincoln Memorial University, which recently received provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association, has extended its invitation for nominations and applications for…

University of Pittsburgh law professor David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1987 book Bearing the Cross, spoke on MSNBC recently about the movie Selma and about the…

In my last post, I began discussing a new form of cross border kidney exchange, Reverse Transplant Tourism (or “RTT”), that Mike Rees and I propose in a recently published…

UNC Law School is hosting a day-long program in the wake of Ferguson and Staten Island on Friday, January 23.  Cribbing now a little from their announcement: A full-day program…

Bloomberg Businessweek has an article out this week entitled “Getting Into Law School Is Easier Than It Used to Be, and That's Not Good”.   The article draws heavily on a recent…

I promised that I would talk some more about the articles in the Law & Contemporary Problems volume, Organs & Inducements, that was just published.  So today I’d like to…

The 15th annual workshop on Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship, co-taught by Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin, will run from June 15-June 17 at Washington University in St. Louis. The…

The University of Florida's law school is soliciting nominations for their dean.  Cribbing now from their brochure announcing the dean search:  The mission of UF Law is to achieve excellence…

LSAC has reported that 28,585 people took the LSAT in December, an increase of 0.8% from December 2013. Adding the December 2014 number to the 52,746 tests administered in June and October…