Month: February 2016

Touro Law Center and the Jewish Law Institute will host a national conference, Louis D. Brandeis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective, March 31 and April 1, 2016. More than thirty judges, lawyers,…

The Chronicle of Higher Education has published a lengthy profile of Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, whose forthcoming book Evicted has drawn tremendous advance praise.  The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation…

Michigan State University School of Law announced that Lawrence Ponoroff will be its new dean, effective this summer.  Ponoroff replaces Joan Howarth who has been dean since 2008.  Ponoroff is…

I am sorry to report that Francis ("Frank") Beytagh, who served as dean at Ohio State from 1985 to 1993, has passed away.  Cribbing from the Ohio State memorial notice:…

Palestinian human rights activist Bassam Eid was recently prevented from speaking, or otherwise disrupted, on two Chicago area campuses including Northwestern.  No, he was not a victim of speech-suppressing Zionists;…

From an email message which I received recently: The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance is seeking applications from highly qualified candidates who are interested in working with the…

This just in: St. John's Law School is now looking for an Assistant or Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, who will be the senior administrator responsible for the development and…

bumping to the front; February 29 deadline for applications The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project seeks contributors of rewritten judicial opinions and commentary on those opinions for an edited collection entitled…

The University of Hawaii has has several openings for tenure track faculty.  There is a tight time line for applications.  Applications close March 4.

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 02/12/16, there are 226,167 applications submitted by 34,732 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.0% and applications are up 0.7% from…