Month: April 2015

The 14th annual workshop on Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship, co-taught by Lee Epstein and Andrew D. Martin, will run from June 15-June 17 at Washington University in St. Louis. The workshop…

And they are Kathleen Boozang from Seton Hall and Ray Brescia from Albany Law School.

For those not already following Michael Simkovic's posts at Leiter's Law Reports, I suggest you do so if you are at all interested in the question of how we should…

150 years ago today Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court house.  That means it's time for a picture of Appomattox Courthouse.  I particularly like this picture, of the road…

I am sorry to report that long-time University of Wisconsin history professor Stanley Kutler passed away on April 7.   Kutler is best known for his extensive work on Nixon…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 4/03/15, there are 308,871 fall 2015 applications submitted by 45,978 applicants. Applicants are down 2.8% and applications are down 5.0% from 2014.  Last year…

Martha Jones of the University of Michigan's history department and law school has an op-ed at Huffington Post on Loretta Lynch's nomination to be attorney general and the increasing political influence…

I have an oped in today's Chicago Tribune.  It is not about law or teaching.  Non-paywall access is here.

This just in: Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in Orlando, Florida is hiring tenure track entry level faculty members in the areas of  Tax, Legal Research and…

Two law professors at William Mitchell School of Law are suing in the aftermath of the announced merger between Mitchell and Hamline Law.  The faculty members, Carl Moy and John…