Month: July 2020

  The American Law Institute recently announced the election of 38 new members. Among them are these law professors:   Alabama Jenny E. Carroll, Tuscaloosa – Professor, University of Alabama…

This is a photograph of my nephew, Ari Lubet, with John Lewis.             Ari represented Andrew Aydin, the writer who collaborated on the text for March, Lewis's…

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman -- a Northwestern alumnus and trial advocacy adjunct -- has an excellent oped in the Chicago Tribune, comparing his experience with polio and the current…

Northwestern University has announced that the law school's vice dean, Professor James Speta, will take over as interim dean on August 1.  He holds a JD from the University of…

We recently have been made aware that certain state bar examiners – including some administering the exam next week – prohibit people from bringing their own menstrual products to the…

Following up on my post from earlier this week, it looks like bar exam takers in Arizona now may bring menstrual products into the test with them. Late yesterday, without…

"Satisfaction" was the Rolling Stones' first number one hit in the U.S. The BBC originally refused to play the song because of its suggestiveness, leaving it to the offshore "pirate" ...

The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project is pleased to announce the publication of two new volumes in the Cambridge University Press series. Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten (Rachel Rebouché ed. ...

Annual Call For Papers  For Journal for Law, Property, and Society   The Association of Law Property & Society (ALPS) publishes the Journal of Law, Property, and Society. While our annual meeting was…

From an email message that I received in recent days: Temple University Beasley School of Law is seeking to fill two faculty positions beginning in fall 2021. The first is…