Month: April 2016

I've just heard that Roger Dennis, the founding dean of Drexel Law School -- and before that provost at Rutgers University and dean of Rutgers-Camden Law -- is retiring as…

Call for Papers Sanford E. Sarasohn Conference on Critical Issues in Comparative and International Taxation II: Taxation and Migration Saint Louis University School of Law March 31, 2017 sponsored by…

Syracuse University School of Law has announced that Dean Craig Boise of Cleveland-Marshall Law will become the New York school's new dean this summer. Boise, who holds a JD from the University…

University of Arizona Professor James Anaya has been named the new dean of the University of Colorado law school, effective this summer.  Anaya, who holds a JD from Harvard, joined…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 04/08/16, there are 322,471 applications submitted by 49,509 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.6% and applications are up 1.9% from…

There's great news coming out of Loyola Law School - Los Angeles today.  Professor Michael Waterstone, who joined the Loyola - LA faculty in 2006,, has been named the school's…

On this day in 1981, Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for a front-page article titled “Jimmy’s World,” in which she told the story of an…

I'm delighted to mention that the March 2016 issue of the American Journal of Legal History is up on the web and the hard copy will be arriving in subscribers' mailboxes…

This just in from Vermont Law School: Seeking Clinical Law Professor This new assistant professor position will work as a lawyer and teacher co-leading the Center for Agriculture and Food…

Melissa Fussell of William and Mary Law School has a terrific piece, "Dead Men Bring No Claims: How Takings Claims Can Provide Redress for Real Property Owning Victims of Jim…