Month: June 2016

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 05/27/16, there are 336,777 applications submitted by 52,647 applicants for the 2016–2017 academic year. Applicants are up 1.3% and applications are up…

Charlie Geyh (Indiana) and I have an article up at The New Republic, explaining why Donald Trump's lawyers haven't filed a motion to recuse Judge Curiel.  Here are the opening…

Alberto Gonzales has now weighed in on the question of Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s ability to provide Donald Trump with a fair trial.  Invoking the Code of Conduct for Federal Judges,…

I eagerly watched the Roots remake this past week.  I remember watching the original series lo those many years ago.  I had, of course, forgotten about much of the story.…

The Library of Congress announced last November the important news that George Washington University Professor Maeva Marcus has been named the general editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of…

The Florida State University Law Review will be conducting exclusive article reviews over the next few weeks. Any article submitted to the Law Review between now and June 15th will be evaluated…

Villanova School of Law has named Professor Mark Alexander, Associate Dean for Academics at Seton Hall Law, as its new dean. Alexander holds a JD from Yale and joined the Seton Hall…

Donald Trump believes that Judge Gonzalo Curiel's Mexican heritage creates an "inherent conflict of interest" in presiding over the Trump University case now pending in San Diego.  According to the…

For some time now, I have been warning of the catastrophic consequences of admitting students with very poor LSAT scores and correspondingly low grades because such students are at very ...

This just in: The AALS Africa Section, in cooperation with our co-sponsor the AALS East Asia Law & Society Section, is pleased to announce the following call for papers for ...