Month: May 2015

Sarah Lawsky has posted her last call for updates to her list of new entry level law faculty hires here.  If you have just been hired, or your school has…

 Atul Gawande – surgeon and author – is well recognized as one of the most astute observers of the American health care system.  In a recent issue of the New ...

Cardozo School of Law  has named Melanie Leslie as its new dean.  She is currently a Professor and Vice-Dean of the law school.  She holds a JD from Cardozo and…

Professor Andrew Perlman of Suffolk University Law School has been named the school's new dean.  In addition to being a faculty member, he is the director of the schools' Institute…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 5/8/15, there are 322,360 fall 2015 applications submitted by 48,702 applicants. Applicants are down 2.6% and applications are down 4.7% from 2014.  Last year…

Paul Lombardo of Georgia State Law School is one of my personal heroes, for everything he's done to promote the public memory of Buck v. Bell and his outstanding work on…

The University of Wrocław in Poland is hosting a conference on "Law, Space, and the Political" on September 3 to 5, 2015.  The deadline for submissions of paper abstracts is June ...

I recently returned from the annual “Baby Markets” roundtable, which this year was hosted at Harvard by Glenn Cohen. Apparently this is the 9th iteration of the roundtable, which seems impossible…

This just in: The first international workshop for junior empirical legal scholars will be held on December 17th and 18th 2015, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The meeting is…

I have an article at The New Republic, explaining that Pamela Geller is morally wrong in her denigration of American Muslims,  but not morally responsible for the recent attack on her…