The Hunger Games – Valpo Edition

Back in January, I wrote a post which was critical of the feeble attempts by the Chair (Justice Rebecca Berch) and Managing Director (Barry Currier) of the ABA Council of…

JoAnne Epps To Become Temple Provost

Dean JoAnne Epps, who has led Temple Law since 2008, has been nominated to become the new provost of Temple University.  The appointment awaits approval of the Temple's board of…

Justice Ginsburg in the New York Times

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has recently given extensive, and therefore controversial, interviews to both the Associated Press and the New York Times.  In the Times, Justice Ginsburg commented on the…

Print and Prestige

Sarah Reis has a lengthy article up on ssrn, Deconstructing the Durham Statement: The Persistence of Print Prestige During the Age of Open Access, that argues for the shift from print to…

Thomas M. Doerflinger (1952-2015)

Somehow I missed the story that Thomas M. Doerflinger had passed away suddenly last August.  Long before writing about capitalism was cool, Doerflinger wrote an important book about the growth…

Hiring Announcement: Suffolk

From an email message which I received earlier today: Suffolk University Law School in Boston invites applications for a position as a full-time Legal Practice Skills (LPS) Visiting Professor for…

Magna Carta

The North Carolina Law Review symposium on Magna Carta is now up on the web.  We have contributions by Paul Babie, Mary Bilder,  Charles Donahue, Sally Hadden, Richard Helmholz, A.E. ...