Adjunct Law Prof Blog

Covers issues and information meant for adjunct law professors. It's part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.

Author: Mitchell H. Rubinstein is the primary editor of the blog and is an adjunct professor at St. John's Law School and New York Law School.

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Recent Posts from Adjunct Law Prof Blog

Alumni Sponsors At Harvard
I'm Going To Harvard. Will You Sponsor Me is an interesting June 12, 2009 article. It is about a new service which matches alumni sponsors with students who can not afford college. As the article…
Government reports on restraint and seclusion of students
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued an updated version of its April 19, 2009 report on the legal issues concerning the use of restraint and seclusion in schools, including their application both to children covered…
JAG Lawyer Applications On The Rise
Military JAG Corps Report Recruitment Surge is a interesting June 8, 2009 National Law Journal article. The article reports that applications for positions as a JAG officer are approaching record levels. This comes as no…
Goldman: Why Law Students Should Take the Federal Courts Course
Roger Goldman (Saint Louis University Law School) has posted his short essay, "Why Students Should Take the Federal Courts Course," on the Social Science Research Network. Saint Louis University Law Review has accepted the paper…
District’s policy of reviewing of valedictory speeches upheld
Corder v. Lewis Palmer Sch. Dist. No. 38, No. 08-1293 (10th Cir. May 29, 2009), is an interesting Student First Amendment case. The 10th Circuit held that a school district did not violate a student’s…
MT: Employer must accommodate service dog of worker with a disability
McDonald v Dept of Environmental Quality, MontSCt, June 17, 2009, is an interesting Supreme Court of Montana case. The use of a specially trained service dog by a state employee who required the dog’s assistance…
U.S. To Encourage Online Education
U.S. Push For Free Online Courses is an interesting June 29, 2009 article from Inside Higher Education. It reports that the Obama Administration plans to offer federal funds to colleges and high schools that offer…
Adjunct Professor Abuse
Will Teach For Tenure is an excellent June 25, 2009 article by Kevin Clarke who writes for U.S. Catholic. It outlines how grossly underpaid adjuncts are at colleges-particularly at several Catholic universities which the article…
Johnson & Johnson wins $1.67 Billion from Texas Jury
Johnson & Johnson won a $1.67 billion federal court verdict from an East Texas jury yesterday, the largest patent jury verdict in U.S. history. Johnson & Johnson's Centocor unit sued Abbott Laboratories claiming Abbott interfered…
Injunction Against Strike Is Not a Prior Restraint On Speech
Commonwealth Employment Relations Board v. Boston Teachers Assoc., ___N.E.2d___ (Mass. App. Court June 28, 2009), is an interesting public sector labor law case. A state appellate court held that a trila court's preliminary injunction prohibiting…