Month: March 2016

Taja-Nia Y. Henderson of Rutgers Law has posted Property, Penality, and (Racial) Profiling, which has just appeared in the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on ssrn.  Her abstract…

I have just finished reading Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, which I strongly recommend to anyone who is interested in:  ethnography, social policy, urban economics, journalism, or the use of evidence in…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 03/04/16, there are 279,020 applications submitted by 42,981 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 2.2% and applications are up 1.8% from…

Hillary Clinton ran for president in 2008, but lost the nomination to Barack Obama.  Now she is running again.  How many previously losing candidates -- either failing to be nominated…

Starting this year, the AALS Section on Law & Religion will award the "Harold Berman Prize" to recognize scholarly excellence by anuntenured professor at an AALS Member School.  The Prize will…

I am shocked and saddened to hear that Elizabeth Garrett--president of Cornell University and before that a provost at the University of Southern California and law professor at USC and…

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society Studies in Law, Politics, and Society The interdisciplinary journal Studies in Law, Politics, and Society has published a special issue devoted to Feminist Legal…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 02/26/16, there are 252,657 applications submitted by 38,541 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year.  Applicants are up 0.05% and applications are up 0.2% from…

The Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor for next academic year. Here is a description: The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching two…