Month: July 2017

 I've been super quiet of late, but I want to call attention to a few recent publications, which I'll do in this and another post or two in a few…

Steven Salaita has announced on his Facebook page that he is leaving academia and plans to pursue a career writing and lecturing.  After two years as a visiting professor at…

Heidrick and Struggles is consulting and the announcement is here.

This just in: The Zicklin School of Business of Baruch College/CUNY invites applications for full-time tenure track positions at the Assistant and/or Associate Professor rank in the Department of Law.…

It is almost impossible to imagine, but an Israeli art student made six trips to Auschwitz for the purpose of stealing artifacts, which she then fashioned into an exhibit at…

The ever-popular Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference has added a new dimension this year:  a conference within a conference focused on mindfulness in law.  There will be…

In this article on Science Based Medicine, Dr. Harriet Hall sets out the significance of the Number Needed to Treat (NNT) as a measure of the benefit of a medical intervention (drug,…

Today's New York Times has an article titled "In Juries, Lawyers Now Favor the Uninformed," with the subtitle "Jury selection in Martin Shkreli’s trial followed the growing tendency to cut…

The AALS Section on Law & Religion is once again soliciting papers for consideration for its annual Award for Excellence in Scholarship, to be given at the AALS Annual Meeting…

Yale Law Dean Heather Gerken recently published this essay on campus free speech, in which she explains why law schools have not seen the sort of disruptive demonstrations that have…