Month: February 2015

Savannah Law School seeks to fill a visiting position for the 2015-2016 academic year. We encourage applicants interested in Property, Wills and Trusts, Environmental Law, Land Use, Commercial Law, Business…

Regular readers will recall that I’ve blogged here before about Reverse Transplant Tourism (RTT), a new form of cross border kidney paired donation that Mike Rees and I propose in…

Below the fold is Version 3.1 of the census of law prof Twitter users. Of the 672 faculty members included on this list, 415 are male; 257 are female. By ...

In Does Experiential Learning Improve JD Employment Outcomes?, by Jason Yackee (Wisconsin). Takes on the question of whether clinics help increase employment in law schools. The abstract follows: This short ...

Yesterday, as expected, the US District Court for the Northern District of California certified a class of human egg donors in Kamakahi v. ASRM on the question of whether an…

Newly elected Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe nominated Duquene Law Dean Ken Gormley to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court today.  He was nominated to serve the remainder of one of two current…

I should probably leave it to Steven Lubet, the faculty lounge's resident expert on Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird to discuss this.... The internets are lighting up right now…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 1/30/15, there are 186,545 fall 2015 applications submitted by 26,702 applicants. Applicants are down 8.6% and applications are down 10.5% from 2014. Last…

The AALS Sections on Comparative Law, and on Defamation and Privacy will be sponsoring a joint program at the January 2016 Annual Meeting. The program will consider comparative perspectives on…

And they are.... (drum roll please)... Jennifer Bard (Texas Tech), Joanna Grossman (Hofstra) and Matthew Parlow (Marquette).