Month: October 2017

I'm delighted to say that I'm going to be at the University of Florida at the end of the week to talk about slavery and southern universities, as part of…

   

Updates:  The Saturday morning session will begin at 10:00 (not 9:30).  The Saturday sessions been approved by Illinois for two general MCLE credits, and the Saturday afternoon session has been…

From an email message which I received earlier today: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (CWRU) SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for a Director of the Academic and Writing Support Program and…

Reminder for those in and near Chicago:  My new book -- Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters -- will be officially "launched" at a conference on October 20-21. All sessions will be…

Eric Zorn had a great column in the Chicago Tribune about Pres. Trump's penchant for insulting people by calling them "little" or, in the case of Tom Corker, ""liddle."  Zorn points…

I look forward to Bryan Garner’s Usage Tip, which arrives every day by email, but he sometimes gets thing wrong.  Today’s entry is for bend>bent>bent, which begins as follows: bend…

Gilbert Holmes has stepped down as dean of LaVerne Law after a four year run in the position.  The University of LaVerne has named Kevin Marshall, a longtime faculty member…

Penn State Law, located on Penn State’s University Park Campus, is hiring at least two new faculty members to start in Fall 2018. Penn State’s School of International Affairs and ...

During the oral argument in Gill v. Whitford (the Wisconsin gerrymandering case), Chief Justice Roberts expressed his disdain for evidence based on quantitative social science. “It may be simply my educational…