Month: June 2016

This just in: The University of Cincinnati College of Law seeks a Director of Academic Administration. This is a supervisory position in which the incumbent is responsible for developing and ...

I've run out of courthouse trivia questions, so I need to branch out some here.  Here is a picture of a house where a Jazz Age novelist lived while he…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 06/10/16, there are 339,711 applications submitted by 53,429 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.4% and applications are up…

I'm pleased to report that the June 2016 issue of the American Journal of Legal History is up on the web and on its way to the printer soon.  Our first…

Professor Judith Daar, who joined the Whittier Law faculty in 1990, has been named the school's new dean.  She is a graduate of Georgetown Law and focuses on health law…

Many trial advocacy books (although not mine) include some version of the admonition that "the opening statement is the most important part of the trial," or that "most jurors make…

Many commentators have lamented the fact that the sole African-American on the Court for a two generations has been a Justice with a perspective on race that is atypical of the…

Justice Rosalie Abella, of the Supreme Court of Canada, spoke at the recent Yale Law School graduation, where she received an honorary degree.  Justice Abella was born in a displaced…

As announced today, Michael (Mousa) Karayanni has been named the "first-ever Arab Israeli . . . appointed as the dean of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem."…

Here is the mansion house of an antebellum cemetery.  Obviously it's undergoing renovation.  The mansion house was built in stages in the late eighteenth century and the grounds were turned…