Month: January 2018

Peking University School of Transnational Law (“STL”) invites applications and nominations for Dean of the law school, to assume office on August 1, 2018.  STL offers China’s only Common Law Juris ...

I was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Raymond Nimmer, a long time faculty member, Associate Dean, and Dean of the University of Houston Law Center, and national…

As I explained yesterday, Kentucky's Governor Matt Bevin has proposed closing the University Press of Kentucky, which would evidently save the state $672,000 per year (that being the full amount…

The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project seeks contributors to rewrite judicial opinions to reflect feminist perspectives, and commentaries on the rewritten opinions, for an edited book collection tentatively titled Feminist Judgments: ...

As reported by Inside Higher Ed, Kentucky’s Governor Matt Bevin has proposed closing the University Press of Kentucky, along with many other small state programs, as part of a sweeping…

For the first time in forever I'm actually working on new scholarship -- an essay about Melissa Milewski's important book on litigation by African American plaintiffs during Jim Crow.  And…

The news in the law review world these days is the UC Irvine Law Review, which has been operating on an symposium format, is moving to open submissions.  Their website…

Men in the legal academy, if you want to help fight sexism... ...do cite good scholarship by women. Empirically survey your own footnotes before sending in that manuscript....don't accept invites…

It's my pleasure to announce that Anthony Gaughan of Drake University's law school is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Professor Gaughan teaches in the…

The Detroit Free Press has the news that Megan Brown has just been elected editor in chief of the Michigan Law Review.  Ms. Brown is the MLR’s first African American…