Month: May 2015

It's my great pleasure to announce that my friend and fellow property professor Ben Barros has just been named dean of the University of Toledo's law school.  Ben is currently…

You know what I haven't posted in a very long time?  An entry on the early scholarship of the now-famous.  Usually I'm in search of theses about socialism (or conservatism)…

In a little noticed decision issued a couple of months ago, the First Circuit reinstated a bisexual plaintiff’s employment discrimination claims under the Maine Human Rights Act, reversing the district…

Charleston School of Law announced yesterday that they will enroll first year law students this fall -- and also that they are laying off seven faculty.  Cribbing now from the…

With law school graduation season winding down and bar review about to start up, it seemed an appropriate time to think a bit about the making of lawyers. Recently I ...

From an email message that I received earlier today: The Executive Committee of the AALS Labor Relations and Employment Law Section is seeking abstracts for papers to be presented at…

From an email message that I received earlier today: The 2016 AALS Panel of the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues (SOGII) will be "What's Next For the…

From an announcement recently forwarded to me: Your colleagues at Houston and SMU invite you to join us for the first annual Texas Legal Scholars Workshop, to be held on…

Larry Cunningham of George Washington Law School is preparing the second edition of Contracts in the Real World.  The book is outstanding and a great idea -- and I imagine it…

My UNC colleague Robert J. Smith (@thisisrobsmith) has an article up at Slate, "America's Deadliest Prosecutors."  It's getting a lot of attention.