Month: March 2016

Bumping to the front in anticipation of April 15 deadline.  The conference organizers invite paper presentations on a variety of topics related to gender and the law, feminist legal theory…

The National Journal reports that Charleston Law is rehiring several faculty it fired a year ago.  Seven Charleston School of Law professors who were fired last summer amid InfiLaw Corp.’s…

Savannah Law School seeks applications for a full-time, non-tenure track position to teach in the legal writing program or upper level electives for the 2016-2017 academic year. The law school…

Good news from Provo!  Professor Gordon Smith has been named as the new law school dean at Brigham Young University, effective this May.  Gordon, who holds a JD from the…

Patricia Salkin, the dean at Touro Law and a guest here in the faculty lounge, has been named provost at Touro. Cribbing now from the press release: Salkin is a…

The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center of Touro College invites applications for Visiting Professors to teach one or more of the following courses: Civil Procedure and Torts during the fall…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 03/18/16, there are 299,758 applications submitted by 46,008 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.0% and applications are up 1.4% from…

As I mentioned in my last post, 2012 Nobel Prize winner Al Roth visited Duke Law School this week as a guest of the Law & Markets project. We basically…

The Africa Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law (AJCCL) is published by JUTA Law of South Africa and hosted by the Kenya School of Law, Nairobi, Kenya. The AJCCL is calling for…

The Penn Law Review recently published a new take on the academic discussion of baseball’s infield fly rule (h/t Howard Wasserman, at Prawfs).  Titled “A Step Aside: Time to Drop…