Month: April 2015

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Professors Terri Beiner, Kelly Browe Olson, and Kelly Terry, and Dean Michael Schwartz are launching a study of the best law mentors in…

According to news reports, Infilaw appears to be backing away from acquiring Charleston School of Law.  The proposed acquisition of Charleston stalled after Infilaw withdrew its application to the South…

The LSAC is now reporting that "As of 4/17/15, there are 315,777 fall 2015 applications submitted by 47,172 applicants. Applicants are down 2.6% and applications are down 4.7% from 2014.  Last year…

Now that the spring semester is winding down, and challenging my tech-saviness once again, I'd like to invite blog readers to "name that college town". Okay, I know it's spring…

From an email message that I received recently: The AALS Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its program co-sponsored by…

North Carolina Law Review Festschrift In Honor Of Bill Turnier. A NC Law Review volume in honor of my fabulous former colleague, Bill Turnier.  Congrats Bill! 

The forces of religion were temporarily disappointed when Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson insisted (at the behest of Walmart and other employers) on a gay-tolerant amendment to the state’s Religious Freedom ...

The University of Oregon has announced that Michael Schill, the Dean of the University of Chicago Law School, will be taking over as the President of UO.  Since the late…

Hooray for Duke Law Students Sriram Giridharan, Martin De Jong, Barret Jackson Nye, Brandon Rice, and Melinda Goralczyk, whose proposal to restructure Ukrainian debt is featured in depth over at…

This just in: The Penn State Law Review is conducting an exclusive spring-cycle article review. Any article submitted to this exclusive review between now and April 19th will be evaluated…