Brian Leiter's Law School Reports (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Its Dean, James Hathaway (who is on leave from Michigan), has resigned after only 18 months, and the faculty is in an uproar over a proposed reorganization of the faculty (part of broader financial and administrative adjustments at Melbourne, that...
>-- The Garden of Forking Paths --< (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Hi Everyone There will be a short conference at the University of Sydney Law School on the following theme: Responsibilty: A Matter of Degree? It involves some Garden inspired discussion but unfortunately I think it is being held a long...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
SCENES FROM “THE MEAT MARKET.” Plus, in the comments we learn that the Florida International law faculty is “easily the best looking faculty appointments committee in D.C. Like the cast of CSI Miami.” Well, yes, but that’s because I’m not on the appointments committee for Tennessee this year. Hey, quit laughing!
IPBiz (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
At one point, Alan Dershowitz famously suggested that law schools promote a culture of copying. In Budapest, one Ludek Hosman has apparently taken the Dershowitz suggestion to the max. From the Budapest Times: Hosman’s 7-year-old thesis is identical to the thesis of his former supervisor Radovan Sládek, who was head of the Plzen police before Hosman was appointed in 1998. Hosman, who also...
News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... such as extortion and corruption among others. He has lectured at a number of university law faculties in Italy.
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I am delighted to introduce guest blogger Matthew Sag. Matthew is an Associate Professor at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Matthew was born and educated in Australia and has practiced law on three continents. He began his legal career by clerking for one of Australia’s preeminent legal academics, Justice Paul Finn in the Federal Court of Australia. After that he practiced...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
NEW DELHI: The Delhi University Students’ Union office-bearers organised a protest against the University administration on Tuesday, claiming that the new office allotted to them was small and had limited space. They also wanted the old DUSU office to be re-opened. The new DUSU office has been constructed between the Arts Faculty and Law Faculty on the North Campus.
Law is Cool (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... internment camps in the northern parts of the island. McLeod, who is also an instructor in Refugee Law at UBC, noted that Canada is a signatory to the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees , which states that refugees cannot be penalised for entering the country through illegal means. Canada’s acceptance of the Convention was triggered by its refusal in 1939 to admit the St Louis, a boat containing 907...
