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This just in: The University of Alabama School of Law announces a search for the inaugural Hugh F. Culverhouse, Jr. Chairholder in Constitutional Law. This position is a University-level Chair.…

Professor Michael McGinnis has been named the new dean of the University of North Dakota School of Law.  He joined the UND faculty in 2010 and is a graduate of…

For those in the Bay Area, I will be speaking on ethnography at Berkeley Law on February 28; details below:                    …

This is to introduce a new, free, online resource on the gig economy: a bibliography containing both academic andacademic materials that’s largely but not exclusively geared toward labor & employment law.…

UPDATE: I was as surprised as anyone -- probably more -- to see that Green Book won the Oscar for best picture. It was a mostly enjoyable film, heavy on…

This just in: Obligations X: Private Law Inside and OutThe Tenth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at Harvard Law School from July 14–17, 2020. The ...

The University of Cincinnati College of Law is searching for an associate dean of library services and director of the law library.  The posting is here.

In advance of April’s election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently brokered the merger of two smaller right-wing parties, in the hope that the agreement would increase his chances of ...

Duquesne University Law has announced that its new dean will be April Barton, currently associate dean of academic affairs at Villanova Law.  Barton will take over from Maureen Lally-Green in…

Mable Lee, who was know as "Queen of the Soundies" in the 1940s, starred in short musical films that were played on coin operated Panoram machines and also shown in ...