Month: January 2017

Duquesne Law Review is now accepting exclusive submissions for our Volume 55 Summer issue. Submissions made through this process will be accepted through January 26, 2017, at 11:59 EST. We will notify…

We are very pleased to have Professor Carole Silver, of Northwestern Law, join us in the Lounge as a guest.  Carole joined Northwestern in 2014.  Cribbing from the school's website:…

On January 4, 2017,  Kyle McEntee and I, on behalf of Law School Transparency, sent a letter to InfiLaw encouraging the corporation to be more transparent about its law schools: ...

Stephen Presser, my colleague and good friend, has an oped in today's Chicago Tribune, titled "Sen. Sessions and the Smug Self-Satisfaction of the Law Professoriate." The headline (which Steve did…

The Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association has rejected a proposed academic boycott of Israel by a vote of 113-79.   The New York Times reports: The M.L.A.’s departing…

In 1986, Michael Kinsley, then the editor of the The New Republic, initiated a contest to find journalism’s most boring headline.  He was inspired by a headline he’d recently seen…

According to an e-mail sent by Dean Jay Conison to Charlotte Law Students at 8:04 p.m. this evening (Friday, Jan 6), the spring semester is back on.  Here is the…

Tulane Law School invites applications for its Forrester Fellowship and visiting assistant professor positions, both of which are designed for promising scholars who plan to apply for tenure-track law school…

In an e-mail from the Charlotte administration to its students sent on January 3, the Dean and President of Charlotte informed students: We are actively pursuing an arrangement with Florida ...

Congratulations to Sharona Hoffman (CWRU Law) on the recent publication of her new book on Electronic Health Records and Medical Big Data with CUP. Here's a quick summary for anyone…