Month: May 2018

I strongly recommend Steve Chapman's column in today's Chicago Tribune, about "Roseanne Barr and the Persistence of Prejudice," but I am linking it here because of a single quote. Chapman…

Northeastern University has named Professor James Hackney as its new law dean, succeeding Jeremy Paul.  Hackney joined the Northeastern Law faculty in 1991 and has served in a number of…

If you are invited to speak on an academic panel, are you willing publicly to commit to asking panel organizers what efforts they have made to seek "diversity" among panel…

Andy Koppelman and I explain why in The American Prospect.  Here is the gist: Steven Calabresi is chairman of the board of the Federalist Society and the Clayton J. and Henry R.…

Dayton Law has received a variance from the ABA allowing it to offer a hybrid in-person/online JD program.  Students will be required to come to campus for one week each…

Brooklyn Law School has announced that Nicholas Allard will step down as dean at the end of June.  Maryellen Fullerton will serve as interim dean while the law school conducts…

Boston University has named Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Chancellor's Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, as its new dean.  Onwuachi-Willig, who joined Berkeley from the University of Iowa in 2016, holds a…

In a front-page article on Memorial Day, the New York Times includes this description of the origin of Arlington Cemetery:  In a fitting turn of history, the cemetery now faced ...

Emmylou Harris:  Keith Richards:  Gram Parsons and The Byrds (audio only):   The Tuttles:  Gillian Welch and David Rawlings:   

I was wrong.  WMU Thomas Cooley School of Law and the ABA haven’t settled their lawsuit after all.  After I wrote the column on April 28 speculating that they had, ...