1750 ABA Journal Law Professors articles.
Outrage over a decision by the University of California’s newest law school to hire as dean—and then fire, before he ever took office—a prominent academic it now reportedly deems too…
Sep 14, 2007 12:24 AM CDT
Updated: A continuing faculty controversy at Ave Maria School of Law that has become focused, in part, on a planned campus move from Michigan to Florida is heating up.
Faculty…
Sep 13, 2007 7:05 PM CDT
Updated: An effort to establish a new law school with a religious mission has been threatened by real estate issues and a faculty revolt. However, the dean of Ave Maria…
Sep 12, 2007 11:57 PM CDT
Updated: Erwin Chemerinsky, a renowned constitutional law scholar at Duke University, reportedly agreed to be dean of the new University of California law school slated to open at Irvine next…
Sep 12, 2007 6:57 PM CDT
When Elyn Saks got married in 2001, she wondered if aliens might attend the wedding reception. At one point in her life, she thought about kidnapping her psychotherapist and keeping…
Sep 11, 2007 5:50 PM CDT
A Washington Post column praises a law professor for his investigation in a lacrosse case that ended with disbarred former district attorney Mike Nifong going to jail…
Sep 7, 2007 7:11 PM CDT
Paul Boland, a California appellate judge also known as a mentor to many and a pioneer of law school clinical education, has died. He was 65.
An associate justice of…
Sep 7, 2007 4:45 PM CDT
It’s not a real trial, of course. But some of the country’s best-known lawyers are talking about how they would defend the nation’s most-wanted terrorism suspect, if they were lucky—or…
Sep 5, 2007 10:09 AM CDT
Move over, Harvard Law School. It comes in fourth, after Yale, Chicago and Stanford in the latest law school rankings by professor Brian Leiter based on the number of scholarly…
Sep 4, 2007 5:59 PM CDT
Benjamin Aaron, a UCLA professor known both for his legal scholarship and his ability to settle a labor dispute, has died. He was 91.
Appointed by five U.S. presidents to…
Aug 31, 2007 7:17 PM CDT
There is one simple reason why soon-to-be former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is losing his job, several law professors say: He never understood what he was supposed to be doing.
…Aug 29, 2007 6:17 PM CDT
A prominent U.S. Navy lawyer will serve as a visiting professor at Emory University School of Law this fall after retiring from the military, and he will help establish a…
Jul 25, 2007 10:46 PM CDT
Several U.S. Supreme Court justices will take to the roads and skies this summer as they attend conferences, teach courses and receive awards.
Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
Jul 9, 2007 1:13 PM CDT
Schools across the country are teaching less about the law and more about lawyering
Jul 2, 2007 12:44 AM CDT
A dozen years after Larry Griffin was executed, despite his continuing proclaimations of innocence, by the state of Missouri, there are major unanswered questions about whether he was actually guilty…
Jun 26, 2007 8:35 PM CDT
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