Month: April 2018

Of possible interest to those concerned with free speech and free flow of ideas in publishing are recent moves in the  industry to insert "morality clauses" into publishing contracts to…

UPDATED APRIL 30 (SEE BOTTOM) The ABA made a surprise announcement this week, reversing their earlier decision that WMU Thomas Cooley Law School was out of compliance with Admissions Standard ...

Playing for Change is a non-profit organization that seeks to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music.  Its first video was Stand by Me: La Bamba:  Cotton Fields:  ...

Jen Kreder has alerted me to an open letter posted by the University of Kentucky Press, signed by the University of Kentucky Provost, the interim Dean of the Libraries, and…

From an email message that I received earlier today: THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF LAW is seeking an Instructor of Law to Serve as Associate Director for the LL.M.…

Trusts & Estates profs may enjoy this book review over at the New Statesman written by Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. Williams reviews four popular press books, three…

Charleston Law School was tied for fifth with Thomas Jefferson in my list of the least selective law schools in the country for the 2017 entering class, with LSATs of…

Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. (Louisville) has published in the Wisconsin Law Review Online his essay "They're Watching You: How the NCAA Infringes on the Freedom of Families."  Here is an…

For anyone who has been following the copyright litigation involving the infamous "monkey selfie", the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals this week seems to have brought the matter to a…

Today's Chronicle of Higher Education has several articles about "presses under pressure."  Most of the issue is "subscription required," but Scholarly Publishing's Last Stand, by Samuel Cohen, is not paywalled  ...