Month: September 2014

Deana Pollard Sacks, the Roberson King professor of law at Texas Southern University, has developed a talk show, Meet the Professors.  The show combines talk of recent social issues with…

On October 10 the North Carolina Law Review is hosting a symposium on Vulnerable Defendants in the Crminial Justice System.  Details are here. Our panelists and moderators are working at…

In a recent interview with Jeffrey Rosen of The New Republic, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked “when you think about your constitutional legacy, who’s your model?”  In response, she ...

The folks in the Touro Law Library have posted a document titled Legal Education Reform Bibliography on SSRN.  It's here.   

Penn Law is looking to replace Mike Fitts.  The "Consultative Committee" - Penn's name, not mine - includes law professors Shyamkrishna Balganesh,  William Burke-White, Jacques deLisle, Dorothy Roberts, Reed Shuldiner, and Christopher Yoo. It is chaired…

In an earlier post, I told the story of John E. Cook’s trial following the Harper’s Ferry raid.  In Virginia, Cook was represented by the Copperhead Democrat Daniel Voorhees, who ...

This just in: Texas Tech University School of Law invites applications from exceptional individuals for a tenured or tenure-track position teaching Oil and Gas, Energy Law, and related courses. Applicants…

The Spectrum, a SUNY Buffalo independent student newspaper, has extensive reporting on the resignation of Buffalo Law Dean Makau Mutua here.  I previously blogged about the resignation, and posted a copy…

As reported by Inside Higher Ed, Assistant Professor Steve Cicala, an economist at the University of Chicago, has decided to boycott the University of Illinois over the trustees’ recent decision ...

Let me clear what I am talking about here. I’m looking for methodologies that pretty much all successful lawyers use as a core part of their practice. In a larger ...