Month: January 2016

In December the LSAC administered 29,115 LSATs.  That is up 1.9% over the December 2015 administrations.  I heard a rumor yesterday evening that the registrations for the February 2016 administration…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 01/15/16, there are 157,319 2016 applications submitted by 25,260 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 2.0% and applications are down 0.3% from…

Today, Villanova University is announcing a gift of $25 million from alumnus Charles "Chuck" Widger, founder and chairman of Brinker Capital. We will be known as the Villanova University Charles…

Is it true, as Alice Goffman asserted in On the Run, that To round up enough young men to meet their informal quotas and satisfy their superiors, the [Philadelphia] police…

Many readers will know that I have been very critical of Alice Goffman’s claims, in On the Run, that the Philadelphia police have had routine access to patient and visitor ...

In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court  held in Arizona v. ITCA that a state could not demand “documentary evidence” of United States citizenship as a condition of registering to vote…

The New York Times Magazine will have an article on "The Trials of Alice Goffman" on Sunday, January 17.  It is already posted on line here, although it may be…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 01/08/16, there are 136,994 2016 applications submitted by 22,662 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.2% and applications are down 1.8% from…

The most recent volume of the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education’s journal, Syllabus, contains two articles that seem to be a response to Law School Transparency and ...

From an email message which I received earlier this afternoon: Baylor University School of Law seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position as an Assistant Professor. We are seeking individuals…