Month: June 2015

I have written several highly critical articles and blog posts about Alice Goffman’s book On the Run, pointing out that she described committing a crime in the course of the ...

I am delighted to report that the University of Pittsburgh Law Review has just published the papers from "Challenging Authority: A Symposium Honoring Derrick Bell."  The line-up is: Jasmine B. ...

[Preface: This is my third post on the problems in Alice Goffman’s On the Run, and I have at least one more planned.  These important issues of scholarly responsibility have…

In the last week, the ABA made two accreditation decisions.  Last week, after almost a year's delay, the ABA granted Concordia Law, in Boise, provisional accreditation.  The ABA had previously…

I published this piece on Slate last week, about the first lawsuit I ever filed: I Sued the Grateful Dead    Over the Fourth of July weekend, the surviving members of…

Call for Papers AALS Section on Securities Regulation - 2016 AALS Annual Meeting January 6-10, 2016  New York, NY The AALS Section on Securities Regulation invites papers for its program…

In the wake of the recent New York Times article about my review of Alice Goffman’s On the Run, I received a sternly disapproving email from a world-famous social scientist.…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 6/5/15, there are 327,793 fall 2015 applications submitted by 50,269 applicants. Applicants are down 2.5% and applications are down 4.6% from 2014.  Last year…

My daughter was married yesterday, which also happened to be the 50 anniversary of the SCOTUS decision in Griswold v. Connecticut.  Sarah is the Director of Reproductive Health Programs at ...

Thanks for the invitation and the introduction, Dan.  My first post as a perma-blogger -- and as a new father-in-law --  will be up later this morning.  For now, I…