Month: March 2015

This proposal, which would exclude law school funded positions from being categorized as long-term, full-time JD required, will be before the ABA this week.  The reason?  Bob Kuehn's chart says…

In honor of the impending US News Rankings release (and in the alternative to discussing them, which I don't plan to do), I wanted to pose a question. I think ...

Update: Spivey Consulting has a leaked copy of the new U.S. News rankings -- the top 20 are here and 21-50 are here. Update:  Dean David Yellen is talking about this over at the…

“Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community, how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?”  That question was posed…

My last post generated some spirited and thoughtful comments. Some of those comments seemed to miss my point, so I thought I would expand here. Several of the comments were…

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the Cleveland State Law Review will be hosting Professor Lawrence Lessig on April 17, 2015.  His address is “How Money (in politics) Matters.” The Cleveland…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 2/27/15, there are 247,698 fall 2015 applications submitted by 36,120 applicants. Applicants are down 6.9% and applications are down 8.7% from 2014.  Last year…

I've been pleasantly surprised by how comprehensive UNC's policy on building names is.  This is what it has to say about renaming: If the benefactor's or honoree's reputation changes substantially…

I was going to comment on Profs. Harrison's & Mashburn's draft Citations, Justifications, and the Troubled State of Legal Scholarship: An Empirical Study, but Al Brophy beat me to it. ...