Month: April 2017

I was sad to hear that Judge John Noonan passed away recently.  Though I know he was a towering figure on the Ninth Circuit, I am much more familiar with…

The trustees of Whittier Law School have voted to close the school, taking the first step of declining to admit a new 1L class this fall.  The school, which was…

I blogged last week about the website Science Based Medicine, where you will find unfailingly interesting articles about the intersection of science and medical practice.  I now want to recommend…

Temple Law announced today that interim dean Greg Mandel will be the law school's new permanent dean.  Mandel, who holds a JD from Stanford, joined the law school in 2007…

Things are indeed weird and complicated on the capital punishment front over in Arkansas. Corinna Lain does a nice job laying out the details over at Prawfs.  

The community of the University of Alabama School of Law has received the devastating news that two of its members, Liz Whipple, the interim director of the school's Domestic Violence…

I have an oped on CNN.com explaining why SCOTUS should adopt a Code of Judicial Conduct. Here is the gist: While Supreme Court justices obviously face the same quandaries and…

Also today comes news that my co-author Thomas Howard and Owen Gallogly are about to publish Society Ties, about the Jefferson Literary Society at UVA.  I'm a big fan of…

From Cambridge University Press comes news of a very exciting book that I hope to read soon -- Matthew Crow's Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection.  Cribbing…

Earlier this week, Florida released the February 2017 bar exam results for first-time takers from Florida ABA-Accredited Law Schools.  Florida Coastal was the lowest by a considerable margin.  Twelve of ...