Month: April 2016

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 04/22/16, there are 328,011 applications submitted by 50,537 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.4% and applications are up…

As I have written before (here and here), I believe that the academic boycotts of Israel are misguided violations of academic freedom. The BDS movement itself has adopted a policy…

This exciting CPF has just come in. Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy Tenth Annual Symposium on Health Law and Policy: Innovations in Life Sciences and Stakeholder and Agency…

Touro Law Center, located in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, has just posted their invitations for nominations for the law dean.  They are anticipating having a dean in place…

The Louis D. Brandeis Center has filed a lawsuit against the American Studies Association seeking to enjoin the ASA’s resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.  The complaint asserts two bases…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 04/15/16, there are 325,833 applications submitted by 50,130 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.4% and applications are up…

From the mailbox: The Central States Law Schools Association 2016 Scholarship Conference will be held on Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24 at the University of North Dakota School of Law in Grand Forks,…

CUNY Law School has announced two of the four finalists in its dean search.  They are Dr. Lolita Buckner Inniss (Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law) and Justice Fern Fisher (Deputy…

Tax professors and other Internal Revenue Code enthusiasts may find amusing the results of the Studio 360 "De-File Your Taxes" challenge to take artistic actions with tax returns. The winning…

A paper by a group of Duke law school students recently posted to SSRN is featured by Matt Levine in BloombergView today.  Says Levine: Meanwhile in less-sovereign debt, the other…