Month: February 2016

New York's Marist College  has announced that Loyola - Chicago Law Dean David Yellen will become its next President.  Dean Yellen has been at Loyola since 2005.  He previously served as…

Chris Christie and Marco Rubio are both law school graduates, but I am willing to bet that Christie paid more attention in his Trial Advocacy class. He certainly proved himself…

Two of my favorite colleagues, Alexa Chew and Katie Rose Guest Pryal, have recently published The Complete Legal Writer with Carolina Academic Press. Cribbing now from the CAP website:  The Complete…

I've been rather quiet of late.  I'm teaching property and T&E this semester and that's been keeping me busy.  Especially T&E, where I've been trying out some new material -- want ...

Last week I blogged about Ta-Nehisi Coates' takedown of Senator Sanders' opposition to reparations. Now Martha Jones is taking on Hillary Clinton's 2008 invocation of Harriet Tubman.  This essay is…

David Garrow has an op-ed in the LA Times on the aging of Supreme Court justices.  The concluding paragraph is: Our court system and the law benefit from the wisdom of…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 01/29/16, there are 190,914 2016 applications submitted by 29,404 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 0.9% and applications are up 0.1% from…

From Law360: Egg Donors Get Pay Limits Axed With Antitrust Settlement By Kelly Knaub   Law360, New York (February 1, 2016, 7:01 PM ET) -- A class of human-egg donors…

The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History is announcing a series of scholarships they'll be awarding for the next academic year.  They're offering both post-docs and research fellowships in…

Villanova University Law Dean John Gotanda has accepted a new position as President of Hawai'i Pacific University.  Gotanda became Dean in 2011 and has done a great job  leading Villanova…