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Georgia Law Seeks Faculty

This just in:

The University of Georgia School of Law invites applications to fill one or more tenure-track or tenured positions at the rank of assistant professor, associate professor, or professor. The positions will begin August 2026, with a possibility of a January 1, 2027 start date. Applicants must be committed to producing world-class scholarship, providing first-rate legal training, and engaging in meaningful service. Curricular priorities include property, contracts, torts, environmental law, and bankruptcy and secured transactions. Other specific curricular interests include international, administrative, banking, business and employment law. Candidates who can teach in more than one of the above-listed disciplines will be especially helpful.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Today's Loving (Starting and Stopping)

"Today I Started Loving You Again" was written by Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens in 1968. Released as the B-side of "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde," it failed to chart on its own. So much for the wisdom of crowds, as we know which one has endured as a classic. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" released by George Jones in 1980, has often been called the greatest country song of all time. I don't think I'd go that far, but it ranked 142 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 greatest hits.

Hiring Announcement: University of Iowa College of Law

From a recent email message:

The University of Iowa College of Law seeks applicants for one or more tenure-track faculty positions. We have a strong interest in applicants who possess excellence in their academic and professional backgrounds. Entry-level and lateral candidates are welcome to apply.

The College of Law’s primary hiring interest is in business, corporate, and commercial law.

Consistent with the mission and responsibilities of a top-tier public research university, we are interested in candidates who are recognized scholars and teachers and who will participate actively in the intellectual life of the College of Law. In addition, we desire candidates with a demonstrated ability to maintain effective and respectful working relationships with the campus community to uphold a standard of cultural competency and respect for differences. We also desire candidates who would bring significant new scholarly strengths to the College of Law. Candidates who can contribute to these goals are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in these areas.

To apply, candidates should submit a letter of interest, CV, a list of three references, a law school transcript, and teaching evaluations (if applicable) through Jobs@UIOWA, https://jobs.uiowa.edu, refer to Requisition #75664.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any misconduct history or pending research misconduct investigation including but not limited to sexual misconduct in prior employment and provide a related release and will be subject to a criminal background and credential check.

For questions, please contact Joseph Yockey, chair of the Faculty Appointments Committee at [email protected].

The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth and related conditions), disability, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, service in the U.S. military, sexual orientation, or associational preferences. In addition to abiding by the UI Nondiscrimination Statement, the College of Law also abides by the Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which additionally prohibits discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, and military status. The College of Law affirms its commitment to providing equal opportunity without discrimination on the same bases. Persons with disabilities may contact University Human Resources/Faculty and Staff Disability Services, (319) 335-2660 or [email protected], to inquire or discuss accommodation needs. Prospective employees may review the University Campus Security Policy and the latest annual crime statistics by contacting the Department of Public Safety at 319/335-5022. 

Hiring Announcement: Syracuse University College of Law

From a recent email message

Syracuse University College of Law invites applications from entry-level candidates for tenure-track positions with an expected start date of August 2026. We welcome applications from candidates across all areas of law but have particular interest in scholars teaching and writing in torts, constitutional law, and/or civil procedure. Candidates are expected to teach courses in both the residential law program and in our online JD interactive program, and can expect to teach a first-year course or a core upper-division course, along with other courses as needed.

We are seeking individuals who are or have the potential to become outstanding scholars and excellent teachers. Candidates should have a distinguished academic record, including a J.D. from an accredited law school. Preferred post-J.D. experience and credentials include advanced degrees, judicial clerkships, relevant legal practice, or similar experience. Candidates must have the skills to effectively interact with groups of students, colleagues, and community members from different backgrounds.

The salary range for an Associate Professor, depending on experience, is $125,000 to $145,000 with benefits. Syracuse University is committed to creating an environment that is welcoming to all. Priority consideration will be given to applications received on or before August 20, 2025.

Candidates should apply directly to Syracuse University at the following link: https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/109830

Interested candidates are welcome to email [email protected] with any questions about the hiring process.

Harvard Considers Its Options With Trump

That’s according to the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Yet even as the university pursues its legal options, the institution appears open to a resolution. Harvard and government officials restarted talks last week, The New York Times and The Harvard Crimson reported. No details have emerged about what a potential settlement might look like, or how close such a settlement might be. (In a sign that the two sides remain at loggerheads on key issues, the Department of Health and Human Services told Harvard on Monday that the university’s alleged tolerance of campus antisemitism “is in violent violation” of Title VI, the federal antidiscrimination law.) But any agreement would reverberate across the sector just as loudly as Harvard’s resistance has.

Read the whole piece here.

The Placenta By The Frozen Peas

The FT has the story, in What should we do with my wife’s frozen placenta?

With no clear plan, we decided to keep our options open. Which is why it is where it is now, lying in the freezer between the frozen peas and a half-eaten tub of ice cream. But time is ticking, and it will soon be past its best. What should I do? The most talked-about – and arguably most polarising – option is to eat it, which is known as placentophagy. . .

But while many mothers (and even a few adventurous partners) report feeling better after consuming it, scientific evidence remains limited and inconclusive. Most medical professionals remain cautious, but that hasn’t stopped the proliferation of placenta smoothies, capsules, pâté recipes – or even DIY skin creams made from dehydrated powder. . .

The placenta is loaded with regenerative stem cells that can be used for medical research and treatments, including immune conditions, wound healing and potential future therapies for your child. But again, this requires forward planning. Stem-cell collection needs to happen within 72 hours of birth, and if the placenta is stored in a home freezer, it is not considered viable for medical use.

Read the whole story here.

Those interested in scholarship on placenta might want to check out articles by Mathilde Cohen, including The Law of Placenta and The Law of Self-Eating — Milk, Placenta, and Feces Consumption.

Hiring Announcement: The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law

From a recent email message:

The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America (“Catholic Law”) may seek to fill one or more faculty positions to begin in Fall 2026. We are looking for candidates for entry-level or lateral positions, tenure-track or contract, in a variety of subjects, including, but not limited to, Corporate and Securities Law, Family Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, and Legal Research and Writing.

 

Catholic Law is also seeking candidates to fill a new position in Law & Entrepreneurship as either a contract or tenure track position. The successful candidate will launch a new clinic at the law school in law and entrepreneurship, supervising students and managing the clinic's affairs.

Catholic Law is a national leader in preparing students of all faiths for the practice of law and is an integral part of The Catholic University of America, the national university of the Catholic Church, located on a beautiful residential campus in the heart of the nation’s capital.

 

Candidates must possess a J.D. or equivalent, superior academic credentials, and relevant professional experience, such as teaching, legal practice, or judicial clerkships. Interested applicants should email their materials to the attention of Dean Stephen Payne at [email protected].

 

As a Catholic institution, our mission commits us to respecting the “dignity of each human person,” and to welcoming scholars who will bring a “diversity of backgrounds, religious affiliations, viewpoints, and contributions” to the law school’s vibrant intellectual community. The Catholic University of America is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

CFP: Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference

From our friends at ALPE:

 

We’re excited to invite submissions for the first-ever Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference, happening February 6–7, 2026, in downtown Richmond, Virginia, hosted by the University of Richmond School of Law.

 

This conference is more than an academic gathering—it’s the launch of a space for scholars, organizers, and practitioners who care deeply about how law shapes political and economic power, and how we might build alternatives. 

 

We welcome panel proposals, individual papers, and roundtables, from long-time law and political economy (LPE) contributors to those who are LPE-curious. Whether your work is theoretical, practical, or somewhere in between, we hope you’ll consider sharing it. And if you're not submitting a paper, you're still warmly invited to attend, connect, and help shape this new organization.

 

More information and the full call for papers is here. The submission window is August 15 to September 15, 2025.

 

To receive updates about the conference and ALPE more generally, please sign up for our listserv here.

 

Please pass this along to colleagues or anyone in your networks who may be interested. For any questions, you can contact us at[email protected]. 

We hope to see many of you in Richmond next February!

 

Warmly,

ALPE Planning Committee
[email protected]

ALI Elects New Members

The American Law Institute has announced (here) the election of 47 new members, including these professors:

• Christine Pedigo Bartholomew, University at Buffalo School of Law
• Alexander A. Boni-Saenz. University of Minnesota Law School
• Don S. De Amicis, Georgetown University Law Center
• Dov Fox, University of San Diego School of Law
• Robert Luther III, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
• Milan Markovic, Texas A&M University School of Law
• Paul B. Miller, Notre Dame Law School
• David W. Opderbeck, Seton Hall University School of Law
• Tracy Hresko Pearl University of Oklahoma College of Law
• Jedediah Purdy, Duke University School of Law
• Michael David Sant'Ambrogio, Michigan State University College of Law
• Donna Shestowsky, University of California, Davis School of Law
• Jocelyn Simonson, Brooklyn Law School
• Sarah L. Swan, Rutgers Law School
• Liza Vertinsky. University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law

Congratulations to all.

Call to Regulate the Australian Fertility Industry

A woman who thinks that she may have as many as 700 donor siblings is calling for greater regulation of the Australian fertility industry. From the story:

"He has mental illness and did when he was donating - he had told me all the seven fake names that he used at ten different places, so that could be ten times, ten times seven because of the ten family guideline limit," she said. . .

[S]o my estimate of 700 is conservative in some ways and only accounts for being in Victoria."

Read the full news item here.

The story reminded me of a recent episode of the Taboo Trades podcast, Families By Agreement, with Brian Bix. In it, you can hear my co-host, Alexa Rothborth (UVA Law ’25) discuss with Brian her own discovery of her donor dad and (numerous) donor siblings. You can listen to that episode in the embedded player below (or on apple, Spotify, and the other usual suspects).

 

Elias, Lacetera, and Macis on Price Surges and Economic Trade-offs

From Is the Price Right? The Role of Economic Trade-Offs in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges

Julio Elías, Nicola Lacetera , Mario Macis    Management Science
Published Online:4 Jul 2025https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2024.04555 

Elias, Lacetera, and Macis have a new paper exploring reactions to price surges. From the paper:

[The] conflicting views between the principle of economic efficiency and the values of the general public become particularly evident in the reactions to price surges. Historically, price increases of staple goods often caused protests and riots (Bellemare 2014, Bentley 2001). In more recent times, social disapproval and moral outrage have often followed the sudden increase in the price of various products and services, such as “surge pricing” by ride-sharing companies in response to extreme weather or other emergencies, or the major increase in prices of surgical masks, hand sanitizer and certain pharmaceutical drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic. . . .

[W]e document widespread opposition to sudden price surges, motivated in large part by moral and ideological considerations. However, explicitly describing possible economic tradeoffs between policy regimes does affect people’s reactions by making them more open to letting prices move freely. This result suggests that people do not immediately consider efficiency or equilibrium considerations when reacting to and expressing a judgment about price surges. When considerations about economic efficiency are missing, moral reactions are highly polarized; when economic tradeoffs are explicit, views tend to converge. However, the fact that most respondents still support price control policies in this case suggests that this position derives from normative concerns and not necessarily from lack of consideration for equilibrium effects and efficiency implications.

Read the full paper here.

Organ Donation On The Taboo Trades Podcast IV

Welcome to part IV of a series of posts highlighting discussions of organ donation on the Taboo Trades podcast. So far, I’ve discussed Imminent Death Donation, The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation, Kidney To Share, and Kidneys and Challenge Trials.

Today, I want to highlight Kidneys, with Sally Satel. Dr. Satel is a two-time kidney transplant recipient and has written widely about that experience, as has her first donor, Virginia Postrel.  As I mentioned in my last post in this series, Sally’s writing on this topic inspired Josh Morrison to donate his own kidney to a stranger some years later.

In this episode, Sally discusses that “tyranny of the gift” that so moved Josh, but I want to highlight this bit from my student co-host, Caitlyn Stollings (UVA Law '22), whose mother-in-law had recently received a kidney from a deceased donor:

[M]y mother-in-law recently received a kidney transplant. So your story actually really resonated with me . . . I know my mother-in-law felt the same sense of obligation that you described in your articles. She found her sense of obligation completely overwhelming, so much so that she actually ended up deciding to go with a deceased donor instead of continuing to look for a living donor. She actually asked both me and my husband, her son, not to get tested. Because she just didn't want to have a sense of obligation to us.  

Listen to Kidneys with Sally Satel here, or in the embedded player below (or on apple, Spotify, and the other usual suspects).

 

 

UVA Faculty Senate Votes No Confidence

From the Washington Post:

“University of Virginia faculty passed a vote of no confidence Friday in the school’s governing body, saying it failed to protect against “outside interference” by the Trump administration that led to the eventual resignation of President James E. Ryan.”

 

“University of Virginia faculty passed a vote of no confidence Friday in the school’s governing body, saying it failed to protect against “outside interference” by the Trump administration that led to the eventual resignation of President James E. Ryan.”

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— Kim Krawiec (@kimkrawiec.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM

Favorite Law Review Articles on Blue Sky

Over on Blue Sky, Orin Kerr has asked folks to post about law review articles they've recently read that were especially good and deserving of a wider readership. The responses are interesting, for anyone looking to add to their reading list during these WANING DAYS OF SUMMER (oh my god, I said it out loud). Read the responses by navigating from Orin's post, below. 

 

Have you read a law review article recently that you thought was particularly great and deserving of a wider readership? If so, leave a link to it as a reply, together with a quick take on what made it great.

— Orin Kerr (@orinkerr.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM

It's Only Old Time Rock 'n' Roll Music

Is Rock 'n' Roll the most self-referential of all music genres? There are dozens of songs invoking or praising Rock 'n' Roll, but few if any in other  genres. There are plenty of blues songs with "Blues" in the title, but the reference is almost always to having the blues, not to the music itself. Anyhow, here are a few Rock songs about Rock music.

UVA President Jim Ryan's Farewell Message

Today is Jim Ryan's last day as president of UVA after his forced resignation, which I've detailed in a number of previous posts (see below). This morning, he distributed a farewell to the community, which is below. 

 

Previous Posts:

DOJ Letters to UVA

UVA President Jim Ryan Resigns Under Trump Pressure

 

Hiring Announcement: The University at Buffalo School of Law (REVISED)

From a recent email message:

The University at Buffalo School of Law (SUNY Buffalo) invites applications for entry-level and lateral positions, with appointments at the rank of Associate Professor (tenure-track) or Professor (tenured), depending on experience. We particularly welcome applications from candidates whose research and doctrinal teaching interests include corporations, securities, markets, legislation, and state and local government, as well as from candidates with clinical teaching interests in immigration law, legislation, or state and local policy.

The Law School encourages applications from candidates prepared to contribute, through teaching, research, and service, to a diverse and inclusive community of inquiry. The University at Buffalo is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. 

Interested candidates may initiate their application through the FAR or apply through the links above. Please feel free to reach out with any questions to our Appointments Chair, Anthony O'Rourke ([email protected]), or to any member of our appointments committee (Mekonnen Ayano, Michael Boucai, Jorge Fabra Zamora, Amy Semet, and Matthew Steilen).

Hiring Announcement: Gonzaga University School of Law

From a recent email message:

Gonzaga University School of Law, in Spokane, WA seeks applicants for multiple full-time, entry-level and lateral tenure-track positions as Assistant Professor beginning in Fall 2026. Areas of primary interest include Business Associations and business-related courses. We also have interest in candidates who can teach Professional Responsibility, Lawyering Skills, Legal Research and Writing, Wills and Trusts, Property, and Family Law. Gonzaga Law embraces a unified faculty model, in which all faculty members are supported as scholars in all subject areas and have the opportunity to teach experiential, clinical, academic support, or bar preparation courses if desired.

 

For more information and to apply, click here.

 

Rachel Rebouché Stepping Down as Dean of Temple Law

Dean Rachel Rebouché has announced that she will be stepping down from the deanship at Temple University's Beasley School of Law next month.  She will be joining the law faculty at the University of Texas. 

Organ Donation On The Taboo Trades Podcast III

Welcome to part III of a series of posts highlighting discussions of organ donation on the Taboo Trades podcast. So far, I’ve discussed Imminent Death Donation, The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation, and Kidney To Share.

Today I want to highlight Kidneys and Challenge Trials with Josh Morrison. Like Martha Gershun, Josh donated his kidney to a stranger in 2011 when he was working as a corporate lawyer. Since then, he has founded the non-profits Waitlist Zero, which envisions an America where no one dies because of a shortage of transplantable kidneys, and 1 Day Sooner, an organization originally founded to advocate on behalf of Covid-19 challenge trial volunteers.

This was only the second episode of the podcast, recorded during covid shutdowns. As you’ll hear in the episode, I have the utmost admiration for Josh and the work that he’s done. Not content to save one person through his kidney donation, he has also dedicated his career to helping others through his education and advocacy groups.

Amazingly, Josh was inspired to become a kidney donor, in part, through an article written by Sally Satel, who has also been a guest on the podcast (I’ll discuss that episode in my next post):

[T]he emotional journey that Sally talked about really resonated with me because she had three different people say yes to donating and then back out. And you could just see the sort of loneliness of feeling like you need someone else to save you and not wanting to be a burden. And then just also how it just affects all of your social relationships. The person I donated to, we became friends afterward. And he told me he was on the waiting list for eight years, I believe, before he got a transplant. And he said that whenever he, you know, would see friends, which was kind of less and less often as the disease went on, he said it was like a dead body. The idea of living donation was like a dead body in the room where like they weren't offering and like he wasn't asking. And so that was something that really stuck out to me about what Sally wrote. 

Listen to Kidneys and Challenge Trials here, or in the embedded player below (or on apple, Spotify, and the other usual suspects).