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News from Jackson that Carol West (pictured), longtime professor at Mississippi College School of Law, recently passed away at the age of 67.  She joined the faculty in 1975.  Additional…

Polly Price has sent along the sad news that David J. Bederman, the K. H. Gyr Professor in Private International Law at Emory Law School, has passed away.  David is author of…

Following up on the Pennoyer v. Neff art from a few weeks ago, here are winners from Mark Levin's rule 11  poetry contest.  These are from Mark's first year civil procedure…

There is sad news out of Australia, via the Honolulu Star Advertiser: long-time University of Hawaii law professor Jon Van Dyke passed away on Tuesday while traveling in Australia.  Jon…

The American Society for Legal History had a lovely reception at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta last week and the gallery with the From Picasso to Warhol exhibit…

During the global crisis, Iceland was hit by the biggest banking crisis any country has ever suffered. Over at VOX, Friðrik Már Baldursson reviews the role of the IMF in…

It says something more than a little disturbing, I suppose, about my scholarship that I'm reading a book that -- before the books.google crowd arrived in Widener library to scan…

Updated 6/14//2012 Time flies when you're having fun!  And what could be more fun than posting the annual list of dean searches?    As always, I encourage folks to contact…

The analysis is here.  Brian Tamanaha discusses the use orf  loan caps on students or schools as a way of reducing the amount of federally backed debt provided to law students.…

Maybe it's time to talk some about Judge John Brockenbrough, who ran the Lexington Law School before the Civil War.  He was an important counter-weight to Henry Ruffner in Lexington;…