Month: October 2015

With Lindsay Fortado of the FT, that is.  Adoboli, who just finished a four-year prison term in connection with his loss of $2.3 billion through unauthorized trades while employed at…

Law Library Director The University of Akron School of Law invites applications for the position of Law Library Director, a 12-month tenured or tenure-track faculty position, anticipated to begin in…

 And gets it right.  As I mentioned a few days ago, the NY Times recently published a much-read piece about Kamakahi v. ASRM, the egg donor class action that accuses…

By now most readers will have seen the article in Friday’s New York Times discussing Kamakahi v. ASRM, the egg donor price fixing litigation that I’ve blogged about numerous times…

Today the ALI announced the election of 72 new members.  Among the new members are these academics: Alabama Herman N. Johnson, Jr., Birmingham – Professor, Samford University, Cumberland School of…

Would any of our Canadian colleagues be interested in weighing in on the election results? Is the new administration likely to have any impact on higher education in Canada? (And…

Today's Washington Post has this column about state laws that restrict (or in some cases mandate) communications between doctors and their patients.  It is based on this report by the…

Yesterday, the Second U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the lower court decision in the ongoing litigation between the Authors Guild and Google Books, holding that the Google Books Project does…

The University of Akron School of Law is looking to hire two intellectual property professors. Details below... Patent Position The University of Akron School of Law anticipates hiring a tenure-track…

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, David Kopel has put up a post -- called Alan Steinweis's Bad History --  responding to Steinweis's oped in the New York Times.  Steinweis sent…