The End of LexOpus

I noticed today that LexOpus (the online submission system that was a little more international and gave a little more flexibility to authors and journals than Expresso) is ceasing operations…

Brooklyn Dean Search Finalists

The Brooklyn Law School has recently announced the two finalists for its deanship.  They are Daniel Capra (Fordham) and Lawrence Mitchell (George Washington).  Official announcement here. UPDATE:  On April 20,…

Third Party Peer Reviewing?

There have been many discussions on this blog - and others - about the ills of the law review publishing system, which may be unintentionally exacerbated by services like Expresso…

Houdini Trivia

Anyone who has googled anything today has probably seen the tribute to Harry Houdini on what would have been  his 137th birthday.  I also noticed an interesting article here about…

Faculty Civility

If I'm remembering correctly, there was a thread on the Associate Dean list-serve recently about whether any schools have "civility codes" for conduct during faculty meetings.  I remember folks raising…

Therapy Dog, Anyone?

With thanks to one of my colleagues for pointing this out to me yesterday, according to a recent article in the N.Y. Times, Yale Law School is dealing with stressed…