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From an email message I received earlier today: Drake University Law School invites applications for a temporary appointment as Visiting Assistant/Associate/Professor of Law, to teach a small section of Civil…

An oped in the LATimes, written by retired public defender James Bendat (one of my oldest friends in the world):

In Part One of this series, here, I explained that certain pledges to boycott Israeli academic institutions may create a disqualifying conflict of interest for appointment to a university deanship, ...

 PLEASE NOTE: The date for submission of proposals has been extended to November 1.      CALL FOR PROPOSALS   Transnational Conference on the Future of Legal Education, the Practice of Law,…

Legal academic organizations have not shied away from diversity training, especially in the context of addressing legal academic hiring. While at the federal level, President Trump recently ordered a halt…

"Proud Mary" was written by John Fogarty in 1968, shortly after he was discharged from the National Guard, and released by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1969. It was recorded only ...

George Mason University has announced that Ken Randall, the former dean of the University of Alabama School of Law (that is to say, my old boss), will be the new…

One would be challenged to find an academic without an opinion on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's impending nomination to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On Saturday morning Politico Magazine featured the views…

This just in: Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California Seeks Dean and Chief Executive Officer Southwestern is a private, non-profit, secular, independent law school. Inspired by a sense of ...

Professor Ilana Feldman probably did not anticipate creating a national controversy when she accepted the interim deanship of the Elliott School of International Relations at The George Washington University. Her ...