Month: March 2018

The ABA's Bar Passage Data Spreadsheet should put to bed, finally, any doubts about the correlation between LSAT scores and bar passage rates, and provides strong support for the ABA's ...

Last week, the ABA released a new product, a spreadsheet which compiles data on bar passage from all ABA-accredited law schools.  The spreadsheet is supposed to provide more timely information for ...

This just in: Tulane Law School invites applicants for the Forrester Fellowship. Forrester Fellows are promising legal academics who teach in the first-year legal writing program. Fellows teach legal writing…

Charlie Daniels  Buddy Greene  Chet Atkins  Rhonda Vincent   Glen Campbell  Flatt and Scruggs  Johnny Cash   "Sarah" with a "Texas twist"   

Ken White -- a former federal prosecutor who writes at Popehat and Reason -- argues persuasively that President Trump should not agree to be interviewed by the feds (and neither…

The University of Iowa has announced that Kevin Washburn will be its new dean, starting the summer.  Washburn joins Iowa from the University of New Mexico, where he served as…

Amy Wildermuth, the Associate Vice President for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer of the University of Utah - and also, Professor of Law - has been named…

This just in: The Anthropology & Law and Law & Social Science Sections invite paper proposals for a joint panel on “Corruption and Legitimation,” to be held at the 2019…

Following his great stint as a guest, we are delighted to announce that Anthony Gaughan is joining The Faculty Lounge as a permanent blogger.  Tony is the Clemens J. Smith…

Martin London has written an essay in the New York Law Journal, following up on my Slate piece about Michael Cohen's ethics dilemma.  Here is the gist: Of course, Cohen could…