Month: February 2015

A couple weeks ago, Eugene Mazo wrote about academic centers over at PrawfsBlawg. I had some thoughts for the comments there, but decided to respond here in a more complete…

Columbia Law Professor Harvey J. Goldschmid passed away today at 74.  In addition to his long career on the Columbia law faculty, with a focus on corporate law, he served as…

On February 28, UNC will be hosting its nineteenth annual conference on "race, class, gender, and ethnicity."  Cribbing from the announcement: As of 2013, nearly 13% of the United States…

Back in May, the Law School Admission Council entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice settling the federal ADA case brought against the LSAC on account of certain…

Continuing my series of posts on professors and social media, I thought I would write a few words about Facebook. I have less to say about Facebook than Twitter, in…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 2/06/15, there are 208,268 fall 2015 applications submitted by 30,454 applicants. Applicants are down 5.0% and applications are down 8.4% from 2014.  Last…

From an email I received in recent days. The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade (NLC) seeks a creative, dynamic, and ambitious leader with a track record of distinguished…

Via Al Roth comes news of a detailed article in yesterday’s Toledo Blade about the first Reverse Transplant Tourism surgery that I blogged about the other day.  From the news…

Touro School of Law has just published the inaugural issue of the Journal of Experiential Learning.  Dean Martin Katz' article "Understanding the Costs of Experiential Learning" may be of particular interest…

It is my pleasure to announce that Dean Patricia Salkin of Touro Law is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Salkin became dean at Touro…