Law Professors

PI Attorney Plans to Do SLU Law Dean’s Job for a Year, Plus His Own Law Practice

Thomas Q. “Tom” Keefe Jr. was already hard at work running his his Belleville, Ill., personal injury and criminal defense law firm. But amidst a week of turmoil at Saint Louis University School of Law, where the law dean suddenly announced her resignation in an angry letter, came further surprising…

Aug 13, 2012 5:14 PM CDT

Law Schools Could Be Admitting 80 Percent of Their Applicants This Fall, Statistics Suggest

If you are an aspiring law student with low grades and scores on the Law School Admission Test, this could be your year. University of St. Thomas law professor Jerry Organ explains why in a post at the Legal Whiteboard that chronicles declining enrollments from 2010 to 2011, along with…

Aug 9, 2012 12:45 PM CDT

Turmoil at SLU: Law Dean Resigns, Cites Funding Issues, ‘Hostility,’ Prez Says She Was to Be Fired

Updated: The dean of St. Louis University’s law school has resigned after a year on the job and plans to return to teaching as a tenured faculty member. In a Wednesday resignation letter, Annette Clark stepped down from the job, effective immediately, and brings up multiple issues with the SLU’s…

Aug 8, 2012 7:47 PM CDT

6th Circuit Rules Tenure Didn’t Protect Fired Cooley Law Prof, Cites One-Year Contract Term

A federal appeals court has ruled against a tenured law professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School who claimed she was improperly fired. The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the former professor, Lynn Branham, on Monday, report the National Law Journal and TaxProf Blog. Even…

Aug 8, 2012 1:49 PM CDT

New Mexico Law School Dean Nominated to Head Bureau of Indian Affairs

Kevin Washburn, dean of the University of New Mexico Law School, was recently nominated to head the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. A member of Oklahoma’s Chickasaw Nation, the Associated Press reports, Washburn has led the law school since 2009. If the nomination is confirmed, Washburn will replace Larry Echo…

Aug 7, 2012 4:26 PM CDT

Sunstein to Exit Job as White House Regulatory Czar, Return to Harvard Law School

After three years as so-called regulatory czar, Cass R. Sunstein will be leaving his powerful White House post at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to return to Harvard Law School, where he taught prior to joining the Obama administration. A friend of the president’s from the days when…

Aug 6, 2012 10:21 AM CDT

Law Prof Outlines Four Things Baby Boomers Should Never Say to Millennials

Baby boomers are full of advice for the younger generation. Some of it is just plain misguided, according to a law professor who blogs at Inside the Law School Scam. Writing at Salon, University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos tells baby boomers to nix these pronouncements: 1) Education is…

Aug 1, 2012 12:53 PM CDT

Today’s Law Students Shun Human Interaction, Choose Convenience over Self-Denial, Prof Says

Generation after generation is faced with same complaint: Your elders worked harder, faced more hardship and conquered greater obstacles. Now the former academic dean at SUNY Buffalo Law School is airing his beefs about the younger generation in blog posts about how current law students differ from their predecessors. According…

Aug 1, 2012 10:30 AM CDT

To Teach or Not to Teach: Adjunct Work Can Come with a Hefty Price

Part-time teaching has always been a time-consuming and sometimes thankless pursuit. Even so, with a glut of attorneys competing for work in a down economy, more solos appear to be considering adjunct teaching jobs as a means to supplement their income and test an alternative career path. “We’ve had an…

Aug 1, 2012 7:00 AM CDT

Why are 15 Percent of Americans Still in Poverty? Low-Wage Jobs Partly to Blame, Law Prof Says

Fifteen percent of Americans are in poverty, a number that would be higher without programs like Social Security and food stamps, according to a law professor’s op ed. Still, it’s easy to question whether the nation has won the war on poverty, Georgetown University law professor Peter Edelman writes in…

Jul 31, 2012 11:00 AM CDT

Law Prof, a Former Judge, Is Criminally Charged in Claimed Sex-for-Grades Corruption Case

A law professor at National University of Singapore is facing six criminal corruption counts, accused of giving a student better grades in exchange for sex. The student also allegedly gave Tey Tsun Hang, 41, an expensive Mont Blanc pen and taillor-made shirts and paid a four-figure bill for him, according…

Jul 27, 2012 5:43 PM CDT

Several Top Law Schools Are Still Accepting Applications for Fall 2012

Several of the top 50 law schools are still accepting applications for the fall 2012 class, though the numbers vary based on the person who is asking. At first glance, 28 of the top 50 schools were still accepting applications as of July 24, as many as four to six…

Jul 26, 2012 4:10 PM CDT

Stanford Law School Taps Virginia’s Magill as Dean

Stanford Law School has hired a new dean. She’s Mary Elizabeth Magill, vice dean at the University of Virginia School of Law. Magill takes over on Sept. 1, replacing Larry Kramer, who is leaving to head the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, report the National Law Journal and the San…

Jul 25, 2012 1:34 PM CDT

Law Prof Has an Explanation for Differing Opinions on Climate Change

A law professor who studies risk and science communication cites a reason why people hold differing opinions of climate change: confirmation bias. This bias is the tendency to pay attention to information that reinforces what we already believe and to discount evidence that would require us to change our minds,…

Jul 25, 2012 11:00 AM CDT

Would-Be Iowa Law Prof Sues Again, Says Job App Scoresheet Noted Then-Pending Discrimination Suit

A Michigan immigration attorney who wants to be a law professor has filed new litigation against the University of Iowa, contending that the institution not only discriminated against him in 2010 by refusing to consider him because of his age but retaliated against him due to a then-pending prior age-discrimination…

Jul 24, 2012 7:16 PM CDT