Month: March 2020

Over at the ABA's Before the Bar blog here, here and here, I have some tips for law students on how best to prepare for and digest material covered in…

Just for fun, let's say someone, maybe an actual lawyer, wanted to cross examine Richard Epstein on his model projecting a far less severe Covid-19 pandemic. The details of the ...

What is the right way to deflate a dubious expert? It may be counter-intuitive, but the best approach is often just to let the expert talk.  The New Yorker’s Isaac ...

This semester, I'm teaching 99 students in Corporations & Partnerships. The shift to online teaching has not been without its hiccups. Last week, I send out a survey asking my ...

The following is a guest post by Professor Francine Lipman (UNLV). The CARES Act was just signed into law, including a number of individual income tax provisions. Here are some ...

This is another guest post by UCLA's Noah Zatz: As law schools continue to debate grading policy changes in response to the COVID-19 crisis, a new wrinkle has emerged. The ...

Eric Weissberg, who died on March 21,  was one of the great urban Bluegrass instrumentalists of his, or any other, generation. Born in Brooklyn, he attended the University of Wisconsin ...

St. Mary's University School of Law has named Patricia Roberts as its new dean.  Roberts is the Vice Dean  of  William & Mary Law School.  She holds a JD from…

The University of Connecticut School of Law has announced that its new dean will be Eboni Nelson.  Nelson, who is currently the associate dean for academic affairs at the University…

From colleagues at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Program on Race, Gender & Policing: We are pleased to announce a call for papers…