Month: December 2015

I am posting the following announcement on behalf of a group of commercial law professors.  On a personal note I will add that the proposal is seems like an exciting…

The LSAC has posted its second report of this admissions season on applicants for fall 2016.  The LSAC is reporting that "As of 12/11/15, there are 92,708 2016 applications submitted…

On this day in 1859, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed Shields Green and John Anthony Copeland, two black men who had joined John Brown’s fateful attempt to free the slaves…

That is the headline of a recent article on the technology site Engadget, describing a program recently developed at the University of Michigan that uses “testimony from real court cases…

Nebraska Law Dean Susan Poser has been named the new provost of the University of Illinois - Chicago.  She will take over in February.  Poser has served as Nebraska's dean…

Eric Nystrom of Arizona State and David Tanenhaus of UNLV Law have just posted a paper on "The Future of Digital Legal History" on ssrn.  Cribbing now from their abstract:…

I have just received a letter from Columbia's dean Gillian Lester with the sad news that Alfred Hill, a long-time Columbia Law professor has passed away.  He was 98.  Professor…

As we delve further into exam grading season, I start reflecting back on the year with respect to both serious and much less serious issues. Having recently taught (in my…

I am pleased to announce that Deborah Merritt of Ohio State's law school is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Cribbing now from her webpage:…

Close readers of the faculty lounge may recall that a few weeks back I posted about an essay on Yale history professor Allen Johnson's (to my reading) pro-Confederate history in…