Month: January 2014

According to a November 19, 2013 letter issued by AAUP President Rudy Fichtenbaum, Albany Law School's "administration and governing board have announced that, because of serious financial difficulties, notifications of…

I'm looking forward to reading Turning the Tide: The University of Alabama in the 1960s.  Cribbing now from the University of Alabama Press website: Turning the Tide is an institutional and cultural…

I was talking with a distinguished scholar of women's history yesterday and she mentioned that she's going to show one of her classes Iron Jawed Angels.  I commented that this…

Former NYU Law Dean Richard Revesz has been named the new director of the ALI.  He replaces Lance Liebman who has led the organization for the past 15 years.  Revesz…

Following up on my recent posts on LSAC data on LSAT administrations and applications for fall 2014, I wanted to call attention to these statements from the LSAC:  "As of 1/24/14, there are 187,726 fall…

My colleague John Orth has a short (and characteristically beautifully written) new essay on the imagery of "release of energy" in nineteenth century Anglo-America law.  The imagery originates with Willard…

Professor Jeffrey Harrison is in the news again on the subject of the University of Florida law school dean search.  Saturday he published an op/ed, UF Administration is Tone Deaf…

I am shocked and saddened to learn that beloved University of Iowa law professor Randall Bezanson passed away yesterday after a lengthy illness.  Cribbing now from the letter by University…

My UNC colleague Rob Smith,  my former UH colleague Justin Levinson and Zoe Robinson of DePaul have a new paper up on ssrn, "Bias in the Shadows of Criminal Law: The…

University of Pittsburgh law professor David Garrow has an essay review on Robert Belton's posthumously published The Crusade for Equality in the Workplace: The Griggs v. Duke Power Story.  It appears in…