Month: September 2018

The AALS has just released a study of 22,000 undergraduates and 2800 1L's in its effort to better understand what leads people to choose (or not choose) to pursue a…

This just in: Brooklyn Law School seeks applications and nominations for the position of Dean and President. Founded in 1901 as an independent law school, Brooklyn Law School is a…

Learn more by downloading the North Dakota Law Dean Position Profile.

This just in, supplementing Penn State Law's  prior job posting (here): The Pennsylvania State University seeks to hire an interdisciplinary energy law and policy scholar for a position that will…

Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research Network Law and Society Association Call for Participation – Deadline October 8, 2018 Organizers of the newly-formed Trusts & Estates Collaborative Research seek proposals that…

Harold Krent will be stepping down as dean of IIT - Chicago Kent law school next summer after a 17-plus year run.   That's a big deal.  According to Jim Rosenblatt ...

Peking University School of Transnational Law (“STL”) invites applications for entry-level and lateral tenure track scholars of torts, property law, constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, corporate and securities law, intellectual…

Mr. Catra, the controversial Brazilian singer and actor, died earlier this week of stomach cancer.  Born Wagner Domingues Costa, Mr. Catra had 32 or possibly 33 children with 18 women,…

On September 13, 1858, John Price, a farm laborer in his mid-20s, was kidnapped on a country road in northern Ohio. A posse of slave hunters organized by a Kentuckian ...

It is great saddeness, Gordon Hylton has died.  He was a great guy — and a phenomal academic career. He had a distinguished legal academy, first Chicago Kent, then to…