Month: August 2015

A few years back, I put up a few posts discussing a new initiative we were trying out at my school, called the Duke Project on Custom and Law. As…

The LSAC has just put up the final applicant volume graph of this admissions cycle.  It is reporting that "As of 8/8/15, there are 343,251 fall 2015 applications submitted by…

Robin Kar, of the University of Illinois, has put up a very informative post about the legal issues -- especially contracts -- in the Salaita case.  Read it here.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW YOUNGER COMPARATIVISTS COMMITTEE SECOND WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL LAW The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is…

I have a Tribune oped today on the Steven Salaita case.  You can see the whole essay here, and some key paragraphs are below:   "It's Time, U of I: Offer…

The AALS Section on Trusts and Estates and AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a joint program, Sex and Death: Gender and Sexuality Matters in Trusts and…

From Jessica Clarke (Minnesota), Jill Hasday (Minnesota), Jessica Knouse (Toledo), Elizabeth Kukura (Temple), Seema Mohapatra (Barry), and Marc Spindelman (Ohio State): We write to invite you to participate in panels…

Liberty University has announced its new law school dean:  my friend and Campbell University colleague, Keith Faulkner.  Here is Liberty's press release. Keith currently serves as the dean of Campbell's…

We have had a great symposium on Go Set a Watchman, which our leader Al Brophy has asked me to wrap up.  I have to say, however, that the excellent…

Dean Donald Weidner, who has led Florida State Law since 1998, has announced that he will step down effective next summer.  Weidner has presided over a remarkable period of growth…