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This, Democracy?

Posted on March 06, 2008
Where's the Carter Center when you need them? For anyone interested in a follow up to my last post anticipating Tuesday's Texas caucus, here's a thumbnail sketch of how it went down: 1. No-one knew the rules. We were first...

Law Students With Guns (In Class)

Posted on March 06, 2008
Apparently there is a national movement supporting the rights of students to pack heat on college campuses. (It's called SCCC - Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.) Villanova law students are at the vanguard of this trend, according to news...

U.S. News Preschool Rankings Out March 28

Posted on March 05, 2008
Psych! Whatever you think of the actual rankings - and people have certainly opined on this issue - U.S. News has created a property that has a signficant impact on law school admissions - on both the school and candidate...

ABA Accreditation & the Bar Passage Rule Debate

Posted on March 05, 2008
During the past year, the hottest topic concerning the ABA accreditation of law schools has been the debate over the bar passage rule, Interpretation 301-6. The final version of the rule was adopted at the February 2008 mid-winter ABA meeting....

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A List Of Current Law School Dean Searches

Posted on March 04, 2008
A couple of months ago, a colleague from another law school suggested I start a new list: a compilation of all current law school dean searches. This seems like a great idea, particularly since blogs have turned into excellent ways...

The 2008 Law Faculty Lateral Moves List

Posted on March 04, 2008
Updated as of March 4 and moved to the top. I'ved noted the newest changes in red. If you have entry level hiring news, make sure to alert Larry Solum. His request for information, a particular format, is here. It...

Anyone Know How to Do The "Texas Two-Step"?

Posted on March 04, 2008
Today?s the day we in Texas go to the polls - for the second time - to elect our Presidential nominee. Most of you by now have heard of our peculiar nominating process where we vote first by ballot, then...

Innocence Project, Redux

Posted on March 04, 2008
More evidence, if anyone needed it, that language is a disconcertingly flexible thing. The New York Times presents: The Innocence Project. Most assuredly not what Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld had in mind.

The Yale Law Journal At Concurring Opinions Goes Archival

Posted on March 04, 2008
This morning I noticed that the Yale Law Journal is using their Concurring Opinions page to highlight a Jill Pryor note from 1988 addressing the buzzing question of what the Natural Born Citizen clause means. Calvin and I have blogged...

Can Children Adopted From Abroad Be President?

Posted on March 03, 2008
Calvin Massey, Eugene Volokh, and Jim Lindgren among others, have been blogging about whether McCain is a natural born citizen for the purposes of Presidential eligibility under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. The general view seems pretty consistent:...

Essentialist Masculinity And Single Sex Education

Posted on March 03, 2008
Apropos of the Times Magazine article yesterday, Teaching Boys and Girls Separately, my colleague David Cohen has a paper up on SSRN entitled No Boy Left Behind? Single Sex Education and the Essentialist Myth of Masculinity. This from his abstract:...

02138 Mag's Story about Professor Samantha Power

Posted on March 03, 2008
Last week David Lat broke the "news" that Cass Sunstein's move to Harvard may be motivated in part by a friendship with Kennedy School Professor Samantha Power. For those of you who missed the recent Charlie Rose interview with Professor...

Why Not a Real Rebellion to Real ID?

Posted on March 03, 2008
The Real ID Act, passed in 2005, but the effectiveness of which has been postponed, bars access to airplanes and federal facilities to people who cannot present an ID that complies with its requirements. Here's a summary of the act's...

Michelle Obama's Brother Speaks Out -- On Harvard's Basketball Recruiting

Posted on March 02, 2008
The New York Times quotes Craig Robinson, Brown's basketball coach, being softly critical of certain tactics Harvard may have used in order to net a Top 25 basketball recruiting class. And Craig Robinson, of course, is Michelle Obama's brother. Just....

Politics, Race And Felon Disenfranchisement

Posted on March 02, 2008
The New York Times reports on the ongoing challenge to enforce the voting rights of Alabamians who have been convicted of crimes. In the article, an Alabama Republican is quoted (from 2005) as opposing looser felon disenfranchisement laws on the...

A Different View of Gene Nicol's Presidency

Posted on March 01, 2008
Most accounts of the end of Gene Nicol's presidency at William and Mary have characterized Nicol as a martyr to principle. Here's a different view. I have no dog in this fight, as I'm a long away from W&M. As...

Alabama's Finest Moment: The Airbus Air Force Contract

Posted on March 01, 2008
The Air Force has announced that an Airbus/Northrop Grumman consortium won a massive contract to provide 179 air tankers. The NY Times (and everyone else) calls it a shocker: The Air Force, in a stunning upset against the Boeing Company,...

Brownback on Slavery Apology

Posted on February 29, 2008
Yesterday's USA Today brought this story that Senator Brownback of Kansas and Harkin of Iowa may introduce legislation apologizing for slavery and Jim Crow laws. (Jim Crow is the name of the period of segregation that followed the end of...

Entry Level Law Faculty Hiring

Posted on February 29, 2008
Just a reminder for those interested in such things that Larry Solum is continuing to aggregate data on entry level law school hiring here. Yale and Harvard are way out in front in terms of total hires, though past experience...

Nader Names Former Public Defender As Running Mate

Posted on February 29, 2008
How easy it would have been to miss the news that Matt Gonzalez, a former San Francisco County public defender, has agreed to serve as Ralph Nader's running mate on the Green Party ticket. Obviously, nobody - not even Gonzalez...

Greetings from Monterrey!!

Posted on February 28, 2008
I'm blogging from the beautiful city of Monterrey, Mexico, nestled in the valley, surrounded by mountains. Today, its the best job ever. The Facultad Libre De Derecho De Monterrey is hosting the third Global Legal Skills Conference through March 1....

1 out of 100 Americans are behind bars

Posted on February 28, 2008
An astounding article from the New York Times, based on a new Pew study, discusses the latest imprisonment rates: 1 out of every 99.1 Americans is currently in prison. And that's just the averaged figure. One out of every 36...

Is it, like, ok 2 talk abt Britney n class?

Posted on February 28, 2008
Admit it! You know you love Britney Spears! Her music is cheesy but catchy (toxic?), and I 'm a slave to it. I must have (give me) more. Her acting is questionable, but I have a sick appreciation for Crossroads....

Justice Alito's Note in the Yale Law Journal

Posted on February 28, 2008
Lots of discussion of late of Michelle Obama's senior thesis (digging pretty deep it seems to me for a story, but heck I love it when we actually read what others have written and take their ideas seriously). That's the...

Linda Greenhouse Leaving the NY Times

Posted on February 28, 2008
According to today's news accounts, Linda Greenhouse - the Pulitzer winning Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times - has accepted a buyout offer from her employer. This is a huge loss for Times readers because Greenhouse brings a...

McCain's Birthplace

Posted on February 28, 2008
Now that the New York Times has run an article raising the question of whether John McCain's birth in the Panama Canal Zone to two American-citizen parents, at a time when the Canal Zone was an American territory, makes him...

College Senior Theses and the 2008 Election

Posted on February 27, 2008
I've been warning bloggers to remember that people may actually read what they write--and so to be cautious about what we write. Now, lo and behold I hear people are talking about Michelle Obama's 1985 senior thesis at Princeton! Talk...

Could The Texas Primary Turn The Lonestar State Blue?

Posted on February 27, 2008
One of the remarkable things about this primary season is that Clinton and Obama are contesting some states that rarely receive signficant attention from Dems in either the primary or general election. Thus, few Texans have probably ever seen a...

Busy, Busy: The Clintons' Tax Returns

Posted on February 27, 2008
In last night's Democratic presidential debate, Tim Russert asked Hillary Clinton if she would release her federal tax return (presumably a joint return with Bill) to the public. She replied that would do so if she became the nominee, and...

A Supreme Court Nominee Short List

Posted on February 26, 2008
Jeffrey Rosen has offered up his view that the Democrats have a very short list of viable Supreme Court appointees, should a member of the party be elected President. Doug Berman replies, correctly, that Rosen has an inside-the-beltway view of...

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