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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 ...

Earlier this week, seven members of the British Parliament resigned from the Labor Party in protest of Jeremy Corbyn's positions on Brexit and anti-Semitism. Two more MPs have since quit…

The University of Maine School of Law has named Dmitri Bam, currently associate dean, as its interim dean.  Bam, who holds a JD from Stanford, will take over this summer…

The Mitchell Hamline School of Law has named Peter Knapp, currently associate dean for academic affairs, to become interim president and dean of the law school beginning July 1. Knapp,…

In today's column on our fracturing political system, Thomas Friedman asks, "Could we have our first four-party election in 2020 [?]" Uh, no we could not, given that our first…

Steven Salaita has launched a blog to “host some writing, mainly longform pieces with the occasional polemic.” The first entry details his “transition from professor to school bus driver.” It ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar was appropriately criticized for the anti-Jewish memes in her recent tweets, and she very appropriately issued a heart felt apology. Some of her supporters, however, evidently think ...

Despite some aural ambiguity (and the presence of Anna Lee), it is Fannie, not Annie, from whom the load is taken in "The Weight." As explained by Robbie Robertson in…

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