Month: March 2017

In an interview with a local television station, Interim Dean Scott Broyles, who recently replaced Jay Conison, made a truthful, and potentially damaging, admission.  According to the story,  Broyles said…

Dean Robert Schapiro, who has led Emory University School of Law, will step down this summer.  Schapiro began serving as interim dean in 2011 and became the permanent dean the…

This just in from the Executive Editor of the Hastings Law Journal: The Hastings Law Journal can guarantee that we will review manuscripts for authors who commit to accepting an offer…

Such is the subtitle of an excellent article by UVA's Brandon Garrett, in The Baffler.  Here is the gist: Forensics has turned Victorian detective stories into modern nonfiction, with lab-coated…

  Last week, Charlotte School of Law had a pretty good week. Dean Jay Conison was fired and returned to the faculty, but since he wasn't assigned any classes this semester,…

Yesterday, the ABA announced that it was placing Arizona Summit Law School on probation. (See ABA Journal story here.)  Arizona Summit is following on the heels of its sister school,…

The University at Buffalo School of Law has announced that Aviva Abramovsky, associate dean for international initiatives at Syracuse Law, has been named its new dean.  Abramovsky, who holds a JD from…

Wallace M. Rudolph, a long-time professor at the University of Nebraska (1964-1976) and later dean and faculty member at the University of Puget Sound (1976-1997) and then the dean of…

This just in from the EIC of the Illinois Law Review: In May, the Illinois Law Review intends to select a Symposium for publication in the 2017-2018 volume of the…

Doug Muder is a retired mathematician whose blog is The Weekly Sift.  I think everyone will enjoy his recently posted poem, "Donnie in the Room."  Even those who do not…