Month: August 2025

From a recent email message: The LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center invites applications for a faculty position to teach and serve as Director of our Veterans Legal Clinic. This is…

Over at his market design blog, Al Roth brings news that the World Health Organization’s Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly has adopted a global resolution on kidney disease, Reducing the burden…

Even more true mid-August.   [image or embed] — John Holbein (@johnholbein1.bsky.social) August 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM "When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had…

Via Above The Law, Princeton Review recently posted its new selectivity ranking for law schools. The methodology, according to Above the Law: This ranking was based on school-reported data, including…

The son of former enslaved people, John Smith Hurt was born in Teoc, Mississippi, in 1893. He grew up and lived in nearby Avalon, which is an important detail. He ...

The Labor Lab at the Center for Political Economy, Columbia University and Cornell ILR School invite submissions for the Political Economy of Work Junior Scholar Workshop to be held in New…

Mark White is chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where he teaches courses in philosophy, law, and economics. He also writes frequently about ethical…

With Tom Lehrer’s recent passing, there have been a lot of lovely and entertaining remembrances and anecdotes. But my favorite was this thread on BlueSky. With Tom Lehrer's passing, I…

From a recent email message:  Creighton University School of Law seeks to hire two full-time faculty. The Law School has particular needs in Estate Planning, Health Law, Sports Law, Tax,…

Via Al Roth’s Market Design Blog, “In June, the British Parliament passed a law to permit medical aid in dying, which still needs further action before going into effect. The Guardian…