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David Herbert Donald (1920-2009)

Posted on May 19, 2009
As I'm sitting here doing a little work on things antebellum, I see the sad news that David Herbert Donald has passed away. Just so happens that his charming Lincoln is on the floor beside me. Donald's volume was the...

Should job creation favor men?

Posted on May 19, 2009
A thought-provoking op-ed in today's San Francisco Chronicle by law profs Melissa Murray and Darren Rosenblum: The G.I. Bill offers important lessons for the present economic situation. Now, as then, policymakers seek to avert economic disaster. To do so, the...

Bankrupty Expert David Epstein Moves To Richmond Law

Posted on May 19, 2009
David Epstein, a senior member of the Southern Methodist law faculty (as well as the former dean at Emory and Arkansas and a former colleague of mine at Alabama) is moving to the University of Richmond Law School to become...

Duke University Press to Publish Obama's Next Book

Posted on May 19, 2009
Err, that's President Obama's mother's next book. The Duke Chronicle is reporting that Duke University Press--well known for its anthropology books--will publish a revised version of Ann Dunham's dissertation. From the Chronicle article: The book, which will be titled "Surviving...

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Take the Jim Crow Quiz

Posted on May 19, 2009
Over at Co-Op, Kaimi Wenger's polling about readers' knowledge of events during the Jim Crow era.

More Supreme Court Speculation

Posted on May 18, 2009
Courtesy of Prof. Matthew Fletcher, via AP/TurtleTalk. WASHINGTON (AP) ? Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, one of President Barack Obama?s candidates for the Supreme Court, will be at the White House on Tuesday. An administration official says the Democratic governor is...

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Important Separation of Powers Case

Posted on May 18, 2009
The Supreme Court has agreed to review the question of whether the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a nominally private enterprise created by Congress in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, is constituted in such a manner as to violate separation of powers...

Nora Demleitner & Joanne Epps Supreme Court Possibles?

Posted on May 18, 2009
The Obama administration has been tantalizing us with suggestions that there are as-yet unidentified candidates for the David Souter Supreme Court seat. We've heard of a ton of usual and not-so-usual suspects but perhaps, perhaps, there remains a shooting star:...

Let Them Eat Cake

Posted on May 18, 2009
In a previous post I discussed a recent marketing trend towards advertizing corporate responsibility and emphasizing corporate commitments to various stakeholders. I questioned whether the new wave of advertisements referenced a real shift in corporate behavior and a new responsiveness...

Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law

Posted on May 18, 2009
As promised, now that I've seen the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, I have a few thoughts. First off, it's a wonderfully creative volume, with essays on all sorts of key figures in law--and law is broadly construed. You...

Student Activism for a Worthy Cause

Posted on May 16, 2009
Lots of students are protesting these days--in Chapel Hill it was over former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who was UNC Law School's graduation speaker; in Indiana, it's over President Obama's speech at Notre Dame. Save the energy for a useful...

Want To Be A Law Dean? No Need For A Top 5 JD.

Posted on May 15, 2009
There's been a little buzz recently about the relationship between where you got your JD and your likelihood of getting a law teaching job. Kaimi Wenger offered up good advice (and valuable links) for folks with JD's from non-superelite law...

Syracuse Law Initiates Restroom Sweeps; Limits Potty Use

Posted on May 15, 2009
I guess this is what happens when shit hits the fan at a law school. As a result of allegations of cheating during finals at Syracuse, the law school has been forced to regulate bathroom use during exams. 1L students...

Undergraduate Education Cut Backs at Harvard

Posted on May 15, 2009
Coming on the heels of news that Harvard Law School's budget is being trimmed 10%, comes news that Harvard College will be increasing the size of sections taught by graduate students. The college is looking to save $2 million by...

Global Free Speech Update

Posted on May 15, 2009
Lawmakers in the Philippines are debating a 'right of reply' bill, though one of the bill's original sponsors recently withdrew his support. Deputy Majority Leader Juan Edgardo Angara said that media groups already extend a right of reply as a...

Plugging New Faculty Scholarship...

Posted on May 15, 2009
As I posted a while ago, many of us are about to welcome new junior colleagues into our ranks over the summer months. This might be a nice time to introduce them and some of their recent work, so I...

Michael Simons New Dean At St. Johns Law

Posted on May 14, 2009
As the year comes to a close, more dean news: St. Johns Professor Michael A. Simons has been named dean of the law school. He is a graduate of Holy Cross and Harvard Law School and has been teaching at...

Kellye Testy New Dean At University of Washington

Posted on May 14, 2009
As Brian Leiter notes, Seattle University's law dean - Kellye Testy - has been selected the new dean of the University of Washington School of Law. Brian notes her salary - $352,000 per year - as eye-catching, given the overall...

Just Thought This Was Pretty: Sunset Over The Dodgers

Posted on May 13, 2009
Dodger Stadium at twilight, from the story here.

David v. Goliath

Posted on May 13, 2009
As I have suggested in previous blog posts, there is reason to believe that the current project of divining Obama?s judicial nomination preferences and proclivities is, at best, likely to miss important nuances and, at worst, may be largely baseless....

Michigan Supreme Court Weighs Coutroom Limits on Religious Dress

Posted on May 13, 2009
The Michigan state supreme court will decide whether a trial judge should have allowed a Muslim woman to testify in court while wearing a niqab, a religious head covering that leaves only a small opening for the eyes. In 2006,...

Stephen Easton New Dean At Wyoming Law

Posted on May 12, 2009
University of Missouri law professor Stephen Easton has been named the new dean at the University of Wyoming College of Law. Easton is a graduate of Stanford Law School and has been at Mizzou since 1998. He is a trial...

2009 Lateral Moves By School Of Departure

Posted on May 12, 2009
Here is the law school lateral faculty move list, as of the 4/7/09 update, organized by the school where the professor left. The original list, organized by school of arrival, remains here. Larry Solum's Entry Level Hiring Report is here....

Is the Supreme Court like a Corporate Board?

Posted on May 12, 2009
Let me throw out some misleading (but nonetheless provocative!) statistics. In 2001, 11.6 percent of the director positions at Fortune 500 companies were held by women. Today, 11.1 percent of the positions on the Supreme Court are held by women....

More on Writing Academic Books

Posted on May 12, 2009
To return to my sometime obsession about academic book writing, here's another question I have for the blogging community. When people think about writing academic books, do they generally write the book first and then shop around for a publisher,...

Salon Obama? First-Ever Poetry Slam At White House

Posted on May 12, 2009
This is no Nuyorican Poets Cafe. The Obama's are hosting the first-ever White House Poetry Slam and the guests include James Earl Jones, Michael Chabon, Mayda Del Valle, and Lin Manuel Miranda. I haven't wanted to be President since I...

Why I love Justice Scalia

Posted on May 11, 2009
Justice Scalia tends to be a lightning rod for many people--either you love him or you hate him. Despite serious disagreement with some of his core beliefs, I must admit my delight in him. One major reason is his recent...

City By City Unemployment Rates

Posted on May 11, 2009
File this under: we like knowing what's going on in the world, but in greater detail than everyone else. Each month we get the new unemployment statistics and one thing is consistent: unemployment rates are on the rise. But we...

Foster Auditorium

Posted on May 11, 2009
The University of Alabama has announced plans to renovate Foster Auditorium (where Governor Wallace made his stand in the school house door) and return it to use as an athletic facility. Here's a really fine article from the University of...

The Clarence Thomas - Leah Ward Sears Friendship

Posted on May 10, 2009
I have previously noted that Leah Ward Sears is a serious contender for Justice Souter's Supreme Court seat. According to the Washington Post, Justice Sears may need to worry that her friendship with Justice Thomas could undermine her bid to...

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