Month: May 2019

Sunday, May 12, is International ME/CFS Awareness Day, and for once there is good news. Scientists at Stanford, led by the Nobelist Ronald Davis, have discovered what appears to be…

Written by Bob Dylan in 1967, but not released by him until 1970, "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" might or might not be a reference to Anthony Quinn's role ...

From an email message that I received earlier this week: Each year, SEALS hosts a Prospective Law Teachers Workshop (PLTW), which provides intensive opportunities for VAPs, fellows, and practitioners to network…

John Q. Barrett corrected my earlier post by pointing out that Justice Robert Jackson received a belated diploma, or perhaps a certificate of completion, following his one year at Albany…

Virginia Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan, who will be retiring from the court September 1, will become the new dean of the Appalachian School of Law the next day. …

George Mason University has announced that Henry Butler will step down as dean of the law school at the end of the 2019-20 school year.  Butler has done some prodigious…

George Washington University School of Law has announced that law school professor Christopher Bracey, who is currently vice-provost affairs at the university, will serve as interim dean beginning this summer. …

In the course of working on a project on judicial biographies I came across the random fact that of 114 SCOTUS justices, only 18 have been from west of the ...

"Shake, Rattle and Roll" was originally released in 1954 by Big Joe Turner on Atlantic Records. On the recording, the shouted chorus was provided by producers Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry ...

This just in: Tulane Law School invites applications for a one-semester part-time visiting position in Fall 2019 to teach one three-credit section of the first-year Criminal Law course.The successful candidate…