Month: November 2015

Amidst all the discussion of race on Yale's campus today, I thought that I'd post a short paper on an article that appeared in the Yale Law Journal back in 1921,…

Dear Readers - I have recently been invited to serve as the Chair of the National Council of Advisors for Law School Transparency (LST), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. My first task…

Dale Carpenter on the disruption of Moshe Halbertal's lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School; here. An account from the disrupters' side; here. Kevin Jon Heller explains his abstention…

Please see the hiring announcement below - please share with any interested candidates. Notes: 1. The official link for applications is: https://jobs.villanova.edu/postings/8633 2. For a variety of reasons, we got…

Building on the success of the inaugural Public Law Conference that was held in 2014, the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge will next year host  the…

The New York Times just ran an excellent three part series on arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, correctly pointing out that they have become increasingly common due to recent decisions by the…

Over at Credit Slips, Mark Weidemaier has a nice post on the NY Times recent series on arbitration.  From the text: The attention on arbitration also seems a bit disproportionate,…

Some friends and colleagues have asked me whether my Faculty Lounge posts on ME/CFS have any relationship to law or legal education (most recent post is here).  The questions were…