Month: April 2016

This just in:  Call for Papers: Baxter Family Competition on Federalism The overarching goal of this prestigious bi-annual essay competition is to advance research and foster informed debate on federalism ...

My post on Justice Alito’s concurring opinion in Evenwel was a critique of his jurisprudence, not his vocabulary.  Some judges and academics claim to be able to determine the “original…

The University of Minnesota Law School has announced the four finalists in its current dean search.  They are:  Mitchell E. Zamoff (Professor of Practice, Minnesota Law and Partner, Hogan Lovells), Robert…

The folks over at PrawfsBlawg have an interesting series of posts going on that will be of interest to many junior (and many senior, though much of the advice is…

The LSAC is reporting that "As of 04/01/16, there are 318,460 applications submitted by 48,934 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.3% and applications are up 1.6% from…

I was taken aback by the final words in the first paragraph of section IIIA of Justice Alito's concurrence in Evenwel v. Abbott: The Court does not purport to decide…

Professor Bruce Smith, of the University of Illinois College of Law, has been named the new law dean at the University of Denver, effective this summer.  Smith led Illinois Law as…

A number of comments have questioned my view that a computer cannot play poker, or rather, plays a different game than humans.  The point is that poker is a betting…

From an email message which I received in recent days: Would you like early-stage feedback on a research idea? Or late-stage feedback on an article ready for submission? Or something…

There are many things wrong and frustrating about the law review submission process, but other approaches can be just as bad, or even worse.  I have written before about the…