Month: February 2015

Jeff Harrison and Amy Mashburn of the University of Florida have a paper up on ssrn, "Citations, Justifications, and the Troubled State of Legal Scholarship: An Empirical Study."  It asks…

Eric Yamamoto, Miyoko Pettit, and Sara Lee have posted on ssrn an extensive paper on the Jeju massacre, in which perhaps as many as 30,000 South Korean citizens were killed. ...

I let this one fall off my radar.  John Murray, a former dean of both Pittsburgh Law and Villanova Law, and President of Duquesne,  passed away February 11.  He was…

The noted legal ethicist, Monroe Freedman, passed away on Wednesday.  He was 86.  For the last 42 years, he had been a member of the Hofstra Law faculty and he…

The usual State of Florida public disclosure data is here.  For a prior post on this issue of public disclosure of applications, look here.

From an email message that I received in recent days: The Natural Resources Journal (NRJ) at the University of New Mexico School of Law seeks proposals for academic articles on law and…

From our friends at Berkeley Law comes the following announcement: The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy is seeking to hire a Research Fellow with an anticipated start…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 2/20/15, there are 233,706 fall 2015 applications submitted by 34,054 applicants. Applicants are down 4.8% and applications are down 7.5% from 2014.…

For those who followed my posts on law professor use of Twitter, I thought this recent article, called "The Unbearable Lightness of Tweeting," at The Atlantic was illuminating. The gist ...

And they are: Klint Alexander (Vanderbilt), Donald Judges (Arkansas), Andrew Strauss (Widener-Delaware), and Rodney Smolla (visiting at Georgia.)