Month: December 2017

I recently received the following note from my colleague Jeffrey Urdangen, of Northwestern's Bluhm Legal Clinic Center for Criminal Defense: Some months ago, Josh Tepfer, of the University of Chicago…

Dean, Boston University School of Law Boston University invites applications for the Law School Deanship. The Dean provides academic, intellectual, and administrative leadership of the School of Law. The successful…

The Chronicle of Higher Education has posted an article about Interrogating Ethnography.  It is a news story, not a book review, that summarizes the book and includes interviews with sociologists both…

On this day in 1859, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed Shields Green and John Anthony Copeland, two black men who had joined John Brown’s fateful attempt to free the slaves…

As I have noted in a recent column, 10 schools have been found out of compliance with ABA Standard 501 on Admissions,  which requires that school admit only students who…

The first three parts of this series have explored recent expressions of anti-Semitism by Michael Chikindas of Rutgers University and and Hatem Bazian at UC Berkeley, and the defenses raised ...

This just in: The Northwestern University Law Review is pleased to announce our exclusive submission track for Spring 2018 submissions. We will accept exclusive submissions from January 1, 2018-January 14, ...

This is the third post part of in a four-part series on faculty anti-Semitism.  Part One was about the blatantly anti-Semitic Facebook posts of Michael Chikindas of Rutgers, and Part Two was…

I'm delighted to report that the December 2017 issue of the American Journal of Legal History (volume 57) is up on the OUP website and it will be arriving in subscribers' mailboxes…

This is the second of a three four-part post about the problem of anti-Semitism among university faculty members. Part One was about Prof. Michael Chikindas of Rutgers, who has been ...