Month: April 2010

Many of us have read One L, by Scott Turow.  I read it before, and again after, my law school experience (coming away with rather different impressions).  Some of us…

Our friends at the Charlotte School of Law have posted an announcement seeking an associate dean for faculty development.  If you have an interest in applying, click here for additional…

 From Strasbourg Observers (a blog commenting on developments in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights) on the case of S.H. and others v. Austria: At issue was…

A couple of weeks back I wrote about Ray Madoff's new book, Immortality and the Law.   Now I see that the Financial Times has a nice review of it.  From…

 It's a great pleasure to talk about Jason Kirklin's recent posting on ssrn, "Measuring the Testator: An Empirical Study of Probate in Jacksonian America," which will appear in the Ohio…

Each year, the ABA Section on Legal Education gives the Kutak Award to the person who  "meets the highest standard of professional responsibility and demonstrates substantial achievement toward increased understanding between…

OK - so it's not really Kindle's (or Amazon's) fault, but recently I've noticed that it seems like more and more book publishers are delaying the Kindle release of new…

Federal district judge David Hittner (S.D. Tex.) was not pleased that someone shirked jury duty in his court.  Read what happened here.  (At the time of this post, readers had…

Governor Perry, of course! 

There’s an interesting exchange going on over at The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog on "Ambiguity about Ambiguity: An Empirical Inquiry into Legal Interpretation” by Ward Farnsworth, Dustin…