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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 30, 2011 7 Comments

I previously posted about the lawsuit by Widener Law School Professor Lawrence Connell.  Widener is seeking to terminate Connell after Connell used a hypothetical example in his criminal law class of the Widener Dean being attacked, and a small number of students alleged that Connell made racist...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 12, 2011 3 Comments

I previously posted about The Culture of Jumping To Conclusions At Widener Law School, including allegations by Widener law school professor Lawrence Connell that Widener Dean Linda Ammons falsely accused Connell of racism and sexism, and of engaging in threatening behavior by using a hypothetical example in criminal law class involving an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2011 5 Comments

TaxProf has the details on a campaign to prevent a conservative scholar from becoming Dean of Case Western Reserve Law School: And now a public controversy has erupted over one of its dean search finalists:  Bradley A. Smith, Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2011 1 Comment

From The Cornell Sun:Although Cornell’s female faculty report higher levels of satisfaction than they did in 2005, male faculty still say they are happier with their jobs than their female colleagues are, according to the results of the 2010 Faculty Work Life Survey.Looking at the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2011 21 Comments

There is a controversy at Widener Law School regarding calls for the dismissal of a law professor who, in trying to get the students to understand the law, used a hypothetical example in criminal law class in which the professor killed the Dean.As argued by law...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 15 Comments

I'm not going to repeat all the background; read my prior posts:The Original Sherrod Clip Was Not "False" Shirley Sherrod May Prefer The Life Left UnexaminedShirley Sherrod Catches Andrew Breitbart's Car Where we are today is that last Friday Sherrod filed and this weekend served...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2011 6 Comments

..."You don't know how lucky you are, boy Back in the USSR, yeah"It was just a song.  But to Brian Leiter, a law and philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who frequently takes swipes and swings at conservatives, it had a ring of truth...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2011 29 Comments

Medical malpractice tort reform is one of those supposed remedies frequently mentioned as a cure to lowering health care costs.  Currently being debated is H.R. 5 (most recent mark up here) which would create a federal medical malpractice reform modeled on what has taken place...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 07, 2011 22 Comments

Shocking news from the frontlines of the anti-discrimination battles.  Liberals -- particularly in academia and the social sciences -- have a tribal mentality which results in discrimination against conservatives.What is shocking is not that such tribal mentality exists, but that anyone is expressing surprise.As reported by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2011 15 Comments

I know, you want to finish the sentence "can live without 'em."So those of you who have preconceived notions that lawyers have it one up on the rest of you, and for no good reason, will find confirmation of sorts in this interview by Prof....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 21, 2010 4 Comments

Three law professors have established a website (h/t RightCoast via Instapundit) where people can calculate how much they are saving by the extension of the current marginal tax rates and then donate that amount to one of four selected charities.The website, GiveItBackForJobs.org, states that the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 3 Comments

The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is an association, er, of American law schools.  The AALS annual meeting, which is held early in January, is a big event in the law professor community.I first posted about the AALS annual meeting back in November 2008, when some law...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2010 42 Comments

I wasn't going to post on this, because I figured there had been enough publicity for him already.  But now that I see (via Instapundit and TaxProf) that the controversy has made its way into Forbes and many major websites, I'll weigh in on the case of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 03, 2010 4 Comments

Today is al-Quds Day, the day on which the anti-Israel rejectionist front hopes for the destruction of Israel and the liberation of Jerusalem.  On this day, Mahmood Ahmadinejad gave a speech in celebration of al-Quds Day declaring that "the Zionists are groups of hypocrite racists who have...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 21 Comments

Ethan Haines is a law school graduate who blogs at unemployedJD.com, a website devoted to the plight of law students who graduate with loads of student loan debt and few job prospects.Glenn Reynolds has written of the higher education bubble in general, and law student...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2010 6 Comments

Wow, just received a "preview" of Wikio's new Law ranking category, and guess who is No. 2?.nobrtable br { display: none }1SCOTUSblog2Legal Insurrection3TaxProf Blog4The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times5Above the Law6Concurring Opinions7PrawfsBlawg8Sentencing Law and Policy9Of Arms and the Law10Truth on the Market11Technology & Marketing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2010 8 Comments

(Please try not to fall asleep while reading this post.)There is something profoundly depressing about the nomination of Elena Kagan.Kagan has an impressive resume. But ...

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