Month: March 2015

This may be my most "faculty loungy" post to date, but also the shortest. Law schools are in many ways separate from the rest of the university. They are professional…

The LSAC is announcing that "As of 3/13/15, there are 279,589 fall 2015 applications submitted by 41,136 applicants. Applicants are down 4.7% and applications are down 6.7% from 2014. Last…

Thanks to a commenter to a prior post, I can now tell you that the finalists in the University of Florida School of Law dean search are: Michael Cahill, Laura…

This just in: Duquesne University School of Law invites applications for a visiting assistant professor for the 2015-2016 academic year. The appointment is a one-year, non-tenure-track appointment with a 9-month…

You can strike Jennifer Bard, who was named the new dean at Cincinnati, but the list of semi-finalists to lead the University of Florida School of Law is here.

This is getting to be old news, but I just hadn't gotten it up yet.  Jennifer Bard, a professor at Texas Tech Law, has been named the new dean of…

The University of Dayton School of Law has announced that Andrew Strauss will become its new dean this summer.  Strauss is a professor and associate dean at Widener Law, where…

My colleague Michele Pistone is the founder of LegalEd, a nonprofit dedicated to using new ideas and technology to improve legal teaching. Its 2015 Igniting Law Teaching conference is this…

Deborah Jones Merritt has just posted a new piece on SSRN (as well as a related blog post) that’s well worth looking at for anyone interested in the state of the ...

Yesterday I mentioned Deborah Gordon's "Trusting Trust."  Today's it's her new article on "Forfeiting Trust."  Cribbing now from the abstract:  Over the past two years, a significant number of appellate…