http://www.abajournal.com/news/ en Copyright 2013 2013-05-18T05:01:34-06:00 http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/law_prof_confesses_i_am_a_sociopath/ Corrected: Could this have been written by one of your law professors? “Remorse is alien to me. I have a penchant for deceit. I am generally free of entangling and irrational emotions. I am strategic and canny, intelligent and confident, but I also struggle to react appropriately to other people's… Law Professors Fri, 17 May 2013 08:11:59 -0500 44231.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lessons_for_liberals_can_be_found_in_story_of_federalist_society_influence/ Libertarians and conservatives with varying philosophies managed to put aside their differences to advance a broad agenda based on originalism, according to the authors of a new book. They were united by the Federalist Society, which began in 1982 with a symposium and spread to law school campuses throughout the… ABA Journal Production, Weekly Newsletter Stories, Constitutional Law, Judiciary, Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students, Legal History, Legal Theory Wed, 15 May 2013 06:25:07 -0500 44171.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/law_schools_should_mostly_ditch_c_grades_law_prof_argues/ University of Arkansas at Little Rock law professor Joshua Silverstein doesn’t like C grades. In fact, he thinks they should be substantially eliminated at law schools, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog (sub. req.) reports. In a paper set for publication in the University… ABA Journal Production, Weekly Newsletter Stories, Careers, Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:35 -0500 44168.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/law-prof-turned-tv_judge_dies_at_the_age_of_92_his_on-air_career_began_in_1/ Edgar Allan Jones Jr., a UCLA law professor who moonlighted as a television judge, has died at the age of 92. Jones presided over mock television court cases for six years beginning in 1958, the Los Angeles Times reports. His on-air career was launched with a… Law in Popular Culture, Law Professors Tue, 14 May 2013 09:05:09 -0500 44166.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/would-be_law_prof_a_former_state_ag_loses_age_bias_suit_against_georgetown/ A federal judge has dismissed an age bias suit filed against Georgetown University Law Center by former North Dakota Attorney General Nicholas Spaeth. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle dismissed the case last week, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal… Attorney General, Labor & Employment, Law Professors, Law Schools, States, North Dakota Tue, 14 May 2013 06:35:19 -0500 44153.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/bvideo_could_this_law_school_ranking_unseat_us_news/ Elie Mystal, editor at Above the Law, tells Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia that his blog's new law school rankings sought to list the top 50 American law schools by relying on an "outcome-based" methodology. Mystal says that focusing on the costs and rewards of… ABA Journal, Business of Law (Video), Business of Law, Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students Thu, 09 May 2013 11:00:50 -0500 44106.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/which_law_schools_pay_tenured_profs_the_most_and_least_survey_has_68_median/ If you are a tenured law professor, the University of California at Hastings may be a good place to teach. UC Hastings paid its tenured law profs the highest reported median salary among 68 schools responding to a survey by the Society of American Law Teachers. UC Hastings paid a… Careers, Lawyer Pay, Law Professors, Law Schools Thu, 09 May 2013 05:39:46 -0500 44090.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/jaccuse_law_prof_says_hypocrite_liberal_colleagues_stayed_silent_on_high_tu/ Where is the outrage? It now costs more than $50,000 a year in tuition at many highly regarded law schools. So why aren’t liberal law professors who are concerned about class barriers rising up to oppose the oppressive cost? That is the question being posed by a well-known critic of… Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students Thu, 02 May 2013 09:00:49 -0500 44008.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/law_prof_chemerinsky_offers_a_syllabus_on_how_the_high_court_can_polish_its/ Judiciary, Law Professors, Legal Writing, U.S. Supreme Court, Supreme Court Report Wed, 01 May 2013 03:30:19 -0500 43793.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/how_to_force_change_at_law_schools_little_agreement_emerges_at_aba_conferen/ Should the ABA tighten law-school accreditation standards to force change? Or loosen them to allow for more experimentation? No consensus emerged on that question and several others debated on Wednesday during a conference sponsored by the ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education. The Bar Associations, ABA, Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:30:52 -0500 43911.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/u_of_texas_put_golden_handcuffs_on_law_faculty_with_help_of_213m_private_fo/ As the state attorney general continues to look into the operations of a private nonprofit foundation that helped raise money for the University of Texas Law School, details are emerging about the "golden handcuffs" that discouraged faculty from going to other institutions. Although there is nothing to indicate that any… Careers, Lawyer Pay, Government Law, Law Professors, Law Schools, States, Texas Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:02:49 -0500 43879.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/john_sutton_lawyer_who_drafted_abas_model_code_has_died/ John F. Sutton, a one-time dean at the University of Texas Austin School of Law, FBI special agent and drafter of the ABA's Model Code of Professional Conduct, has died at age 95. Sutton died Friday of complications due to old age, his family told the Bar Associations, ABA, Careers, Obituaries, Law Professors, Legal Ethics Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:25 -0500 43846.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/law_prof_is_under_fire_for_creating_fake_identity/ An Emory law professor who was named one of America’s top 50 rabbis by Newsweek magazine is under fire after a news report said he used a fake identity to join a rival rabbinic group. The Jewish Channel reported that Rabbi Michael Broyde had used… Law Professors, Law Schools, Religious Law, States, Georgia Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:10:27 -0500 43764.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/law_prof_opposes_ag_gag_laws_suggests_slaughterhouse_webcams_to_inform_deba/ Duke University law professor Jedediah Purdy opposes so-called ag gag laws that make it a crime to record undercover videos of conditions on industrial farms and slaughterhouses. Such laws, proposed or enacted in about a dozen states, are supported by the agricultural industry, Purdy writes in an op-ed for the… Animal Law, Law Professors Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:00:35 -0500 43651.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/if_you_are_a_2011_law_grad_nearly_half_of_you_cant_afford_a_house_law_prof/ Bleak employment numbers are one way to measure the misery of law graduates. Another way: Determine the percentage of grads who make so little money in relation to their law school debt that home ownership is out of the question. University of St. Thomas law professor… Careers, Lawyer Pay, Law Professors, Law Schools Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:25:15 -0500 43615.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/its_not_an_april_fools_joke_illinois_bar_exam_gets_harder_which_states_have/ Illinois has decided to make its bar exam more difficult beginning this summer by raising the minimum passing grade by four points. The minimum score will go up by another four points in July 2015. Above the Law first heard of the development when it received… Careers, Bar Exam, Law Professors, Law Students Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:39:48 -0500 43606.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/trailblazing_women_made_white-collar_crime_an_important_field_of_study/ When Sara Sun Beale attended the University of Michigan law school, only about 10 percent of her class was made up of women. After graduation, she was the second woman to work in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Pittsburgh. Now a law professor at Duke University, she is among several… Careers, Women in the Law, Criminal Justice, White Collar Crime, Law Professors Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:00:54 -0500 43554.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/obit_that_spurred_twitter_outrage_sparks_punctuation_criticism_by_law_prof/ A New York Times obituary for rocket scientist Yvonne Brill has sparked outrage on Twitter and a defense by a Harvard law academic fellow who nonetheless takes issue with the newspaper’s punctuation. The Times changed its lede in response to the criticism, according to the New York Times Careers, Obituaries, Women in the Law, Law Professors Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:40:37 -0500 43522.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/job_market_for_would-be_lawyers_is_bleaker_than_it_looks_analysis_says/ The job market for prospective lawyers is even bleaker than the law school employment outcome data released Friday by the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar would appear to suggest, according to one group's analysis of the data. Excluding jobs funded by law schools, only 55.1… Bar Associations, ABA, Careers, Education Law, Law Firms, Law Professors, Law Schools, Law Students Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:14:04 -0500 43504.abajournal.com http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/u_of_texas_regents_ok_external_probe_of_law_school_funding/ In a close vote after an unusually contentious meeting Wednesday, the board of regents for the University of Texas System voted 4-3 to approve an outside probe of a law school funding controversy. The controversy centers on some $5.5 million in loans provided by the University of Texas Law School… Careers, Lawyer Pay, Government Law, Law Professors, Law Schools, States, Texas Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:16:35 -0500 43377.abajournal.com