Month: August 2013

MIT history professor Craig Wilder's Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities will be appearing from Bloomsbury on September 17.  Cribbing now from the Press' website:…

One of the friends of the blog, a reader from Virginia who goes by the pseudonym of St. George Tucker, has sent along this story about a pear tree planted…

It's my pleasure to announce that Professor Justin Robert Long, who is an assistant professor of law at Wayne State University, is stepping into the lounge to sit with us…

From an email that I received yesterday: SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL in Boston invites applications for a tenure-track position starting in the 2014-2015 academic year.  We seek entry-level and pre-tenure laterals…

This just came in: Stanford Law School invites applications for the 2014-2015 Fellowship Program at the Center for Law and the Biosciences. This fellowship is intended for people who want…

Lost in light vacation blogging was this news item: Dean Christopher Edley of the University of California - Berkeley School of Law will step down at year's end.  He is taking medical…

The news, such as it is, is here.  Our prior post noting InfiLaw's management agreement with the school is here.

The distinguished historian of English law Michael Lobban is moving from Queen Mary to the London School of Economics, effective this fall.  His many important publications include The Common Law and…

What can I say?  I'm biased.  I think we have a great faculty, an inclusive community, and a hometown - Philadelphia - that's nearly unbeatable.  To top it off, the…

I've heard a few folks say this year that they think attendance at the AALS Annual Meeting in January will be lower than usual because of cost-cutting measures on faculty…