Month: January 2018

I was sorry to see in early January that Julius Lester, an emeritus professor at U.Mass Amherst where he had taught for more than three decades, posted on facebook that…

As Eugene Volokh explains here, the grammatical shift from "the United States are" to "the United States is" has often been attributed to a change in national identity following the…

This just in: SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL in Boston invites applications for a one-year full-time position as a Visiting Professor for the 2018-19 academic year. We seek candidates with a…

This just in: Yale, Stanford, and Harvard Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 19th session of the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Harvard Law School on ...

I haven't seen anyone comment on this in the legal academic blogsphere -- long-time law professor, then dean, now university president Joel Seligman is leaving the presidency of the University…

This just in: Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law seeks to fill one or more Visiting Professor positions for the 2018-2019 academic year. We are interested in individuals…

Speaking at Beth Emet The Free Synagogue on January 13, 1958.  Listen to an excerpt here.  

I'm delighted to say that on Thursday Martha Jones and I will be speaking about monuments at Roger Williams University as part of their celebration of Martin Luther King Day. …

"Got My Mojo Workin'" was made famous by the great Chicago blues artist Muddy Waters, but it was first recorded by Ann Cole in 1956 (and written by Preston "Red" ...

Recently, I raised questions about whether some schools might be exploiting their part-time students, noting that at many law schools, the admissions credentials for part-time students were far lower than…