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From colleagues at UVa: Call for Panel Proposals We are currently accepting proposals for panels on issues relating to women in legal academia for the second annual Women’s Leadership in…

Wake Forest University has announced that Jane Aiken will be the next dean of its law school.  Jane, the Blume Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, previously served as the…

The Ohio State University has named Lincoln Davies as its new law school dean.  Davies is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Utah College of Law;…

Meyer Lansky was the real life model for the Hyman Roth character in The Godfather Part II. There is no doubt that Lansky was an organized crime figure -- a ...

David Tuller -- whose investigative reporting has been essential in the world of ME/CFS advocacy -- is again crowdfunding to continue his position at the University of California, Berkeley, School…

Elvis Presley often used his guitar as a prop, before abandoning it completely in the Las Vegas stage of his career, but it turns out that he could really play ...

Islamic finance has emerged in the post-colonial period as part of the ethos for comprehensive reformation of the Muslim world. While the aspiration and need for broader transformation remain, the…

Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology is hosting the Thirteenth Amendment and Racial Justice Conference on November 9–10, 2019. The conference focuses on the ways that the…

Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that…

The University of Memphis law school seeks visiting faculty to teach Legal Writing as well and Conflicts and Remedies next year.   The two postings follow: Visiting Professor – Legal MethodsThe ...