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Washington University in St. Louis has announced that University of Michigan Law Professor Mark West, the Big Ten school's dean from 2013-23, will be moving to Missouri to become the…

New York State is set to implement the Fashion Workers Act, a piece of legislation championed by the Model Alliance, a group that aims to remake the modeling industry. The…

That's the story from The New York Times: The Trump administration on Friday secured perhaps the most significant victory in its pressure campaign on higher education, forcing the resignation of…

"Blueberry Hill" is best known today for Antoine "Fats" Domino's 1956 R&B hit, but it had been a hit for others over fifteen years earlier. Written in 1940 by Vincent ...

life on the tenure track[image or embed] — John Holbein (@johnholbein1.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM

From a recent email message: We invite submissions of paper abstracts for the Fall series of the Miami Law & Finance Workshop. The workshop will take place online on Fridays…

For anyone not on social media who may have missed the leaked 3,000 pages of Harvard Law Review's internal memos from last year, they are here. (Relatedly, here is the…

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.[image or…

Roland Fryer had a very nice piece on slavery in the Wall Street Journal to mark Juneteenth. A small excerpt: Slavery endured not only because society condoned it but also…