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"Lo and behold, the great philosopher’s number was listed right there, next to those of mere mortals. But who should be the one to call Rawls?"February 22, 2021 at 7:09 AM "No one volunteered for this daunting task. So Anjan nominated me. 'You should talk to him,' he said, 'because you guys have a lot in common.' The idea that a world-famous political philosopher would have anything in common with an obscure high school sophomore struck me as ridiculous. Still, a part of me was flattered by Anjan’s suggestion that I should be the one to call Rawls. So I let him persuade me. With trembling fingers, I dialed Rawls’ number, half-hoping that he wouldn’t be home. It tu...Tags: Law, Gambling, Time, New Orleans, Philosophy, Jack, Conversations, Rawls, John Rawls, Ilya Somin, Association of American Law Schools, Sunstein, Ann Althouse, Anjan, Solum, Larry Solum 43 people like this. Like As Law School Students Still Wait For Grades, Their Professors Go Partying In New OrleansJanuary 4, 2019 at 11:31 AM The Association of American Law Schools is meeting right now... how many of these people haven't turned in grades yet?Tags: Law, New Orleans, Law Schools, Association of American Law Schools, Law Students, Law Professors, Association of American Law Schools (AALS 20 people like this. Like The Holidays Are Not Cancelled — See AlsoDecember 21, 2018 at 6:44 PM RUTH BADER GINSBURG IS FINE: She had a bit of lung cancer for breakfast, but she's fine. Everything is fine.
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OUR CAREER SERVICES GUY IS STILL HAVING PALPITATIONS OVER NALP: I'm going to the Association of American Law Schools conference in New Orleans and... I assume this will come up.
SOMETHING ABOUT PRO SE LITIGANTS: I should care. David Boise and Richard Posner care.
MATT WHITAKER IS BASICALLY A...Tags: Law, New Orleans, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Richard Posner, Association of American Law Schools, Matt Whitaker, See Also, David Boise 18 people like this. Like LawNext Episode 23: Dan Rodriguez on Innovating Law and Legal EducationDecember 18, 2018 at 2:33 AM Our guest this week on LawNext is Daniel B. Rodriguez, who recently stepped down as dean of Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, where he gained wide recognition for his work to innovate legal education, and recently stepped up to become chair of the governing council of the ABA Center for Innovation, which focuses on improving the affordability, effectiveness, efficiency, and accessibility of legal services.
Rodriguez was dean at Northwestern Law from 2012-2018 and now serves on...Tags: Apple, Facebook, Law, Harvard Law School, Harold Washington, Rodriguez, University of San Diego School of Law, University of Texas Austin, Stanford Law School, Bob Ambrogi, Association of American Law Schools, Northwestern Law, Daniel B Rodriguez, Dan Rodriguez, LawNext, Northwestern University 's Pritzker School of Law 39 people like this. Like LawNext Episode 23: Dan Rodriguez on Innovating Law and Legal EducationDecember 17, 2018 at 2:48 PM Our guest this week on LawNext is Daniel B. Rodriguez, who recently stepped down as dean of Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, where he gained wide recognition for his work to innovate legal education, and recently stepped up to become chair of the governing council of the ABA Center for Innovation, which focuses on improving the affordability, effectiveness, efficiency, and accessibility of legal services.
Rodriguez was dean at Northwestern Law from 2012-2018 and now serves on...Tags: Apple, Facebook, Law, Harvard Law School, Harold Washington, Rodriguez, University of San Diego School of Law, University of Texas Austin, Stanford Law School, Association of American Law Schools, Northwestern Law, Daniel B Rodriguez, Dan Rodriguez, LawNext, Northwestern University 's Pritzker School of Law, ABA Center 15 people like this. Like Morning Docket: 11.07.18November 7, 2018 at 8:34 AM * Republicans' control over the Senate grew after the midterm elections, but Democrats managed to take the House. Here are six interesting reasons why that means President Donald Trump could be in "huge legal trouble" now. [Law & Crime]
* Florida voters approved an amendment to their state constitution to restore felons' voting rights, which will now be automatically restored after prison time is completed and restitution paid. That's at least 1.4 million more voters! [Orlando Sentinel]
* Reme...Tags: Florida, Politics, Law, Australia, California, Kentucky, Government, Senate, White House, Donald Trump, Cryptocurrencies, Law Schools, Biglaw, Constitutional Law, Tax Law, Kim Davis 35 people like this. Like Hundreds of law professors sign letters rejecting Kavanaugh nominationOctober 2, 2018 at 7:36 PM Two letters, one from the women of the Association of American Law Schools, say Kavanaugh is ‘unable to adhere to judicial professionalism’Hundreds of US law professors are urging the Senate to reject Brett Kavanaugh’s supreme court nomination because of his conduct at last week’s hearing on sexual misconduct allegations.Signatures are being collected for two letters arguing that Kavanaugh disqualified himself with his angry and tearful remarks to the Senate judiciary committee. Kavanaugh claime...Tags: Senate, US, US news, US supreme court, Kavanaugh, Association of American Law Schools, Brett Kavanaugh 35 people like this. Like AALS, LSAC Join Forces To Promote Interest In Law SchoolFebruary 3, 2018 at 9:46 AM ABA Journal, Project by LSAC, Law Schools Association Aims to Boost Understanding—And Appeal—of Law Profession: The Law School Admission Council and the Association of American Law Schools are coming together on a project to improve how the public sees the prospects of a legal education and the legal profession. Consisting... [Author: Paul Caron]Tags: Taxes, Paul Caron, Association of American Law Schools, Legal Education, Law School Admission Council, ABA Journal Project, LSAC Law Schools Association Aims 39 people like this. Like Trump, honoring Navajos, revives ‘Pocahontas’ jab at WarrenNovember 27, 2017 at 4:02 PM  Tags: News, Congress, Washington, Senate, Massachusetts, Sport, Soccer, United States, Social Issues, Warren, Capitol Hill, Associated Press, Republican, Discrimination, Msnbc, Donald Trump 58 people like this. Like BYU And Pepperdine Are The Most Ideologically Balanced Faculties Among The Top 50 Law Schools (2013)April 18, 2017 at 9:43 AM Adam Bonica (Stanford), Adam S. Chilton (Chicago), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern) & Maya Sen (Harvard), The Legal Academy's Ideological Uniformity: We compare the ideological balance of the legal academy to the ideological balance of the legal profession. To do so, we match professors listed in the Association of American Law Schools... [Author: Paul Caron]Tags: Taxes, Scholarship, BYU, Pepperdine, Paul Caron, Adam Bonica Stanford Adam, Association of American Law Schools, Legal Education 25 people like this. Like Weekly Legal Education RoundupMarch 3, 2017 at 3:42 PM Jonathan H. Adler (Case Western), What is the Association of American Law Schools afraid of? Randy Barnett (Georgetown), AALS Executive Committee responds to our letter concerning faculty diversity Randy Barnett (Georgetown), Our letter to the Association of American Law Schools Josh Blackman (South Texas), The First Step To Improving Intellectual... [Author: Scott Fruehwald]Tags: Taxes, Josh Blackman, Jonathan H Adler, Association of American Law Schools, Legal Education, Weekly Legal Education Roundup, Scott Fruehwald, Randy Barnett Georgetown, AALS Executive Committee, Randy Barnett Georgetown Our 4 people like this. Like Intellectual diversity at law schoolsFebruary 28, 2017 at 12:17 AM As I noted in my book Schools for Misrule a few years back, law faculties, especially at elite schools, tilt overwhelmingly leftward on the political spectrum. Last month the Association of American Law Schools turned down a request from conservative and libertarian legal scholars that a task force be set up to look into this issue and that data be released to help identify such patterns if indeed they exist. On Wednesday 28 dissident legal scholars went public with a letter urging a change of c...Tags: Law, Uncategorized, Law Schools, Josh Blackman, Randy Barnett, Association of American Law Schools, Schools for Misrule, Paul Caron TaxProf, Stephen Ware 19 people like this. Like 28 Conservative/Libertarian Law Profs Demand That AALS Address Political Imbalance Of Law School FacultiesFebruary 25, 2017 at 3:43 PM Following up on my previous posts: Conservatives Are Not Welcome At AALS (Jan. 4, 2017) Stanford Provost: Academia Is Its Own Worst Enemy (Feb. 23, 2017) The Volokh Conspiracy: Our Letter to the Association of American Law Schools, by Randy Barnett (Georgetown): Recently, the former-Provost of Stanford University, John Etchemendy,... [Author: Paul Caron]Tags: Taxes, Stanford, Stanford University, Academia, Paul Caron, Association of American Law Schools, Legal Education, Randy Barnett Georgetown, John Etchemendy 8 people like this. Like Preparing for AALS 2017January 2, 2017 at 3:30 AM As a brand new year stretches out before us, promising just as much excitement and interest as the last, we look forward to the latest exciting Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting in 2017.
This year’s meeting will have the theme of “Why Law Matters” and will provide fresh and novel insights into today’s most important issues in law and legal education.
The 2017 AALS meeting will take place from the 3 – 7 January 2017 at the Hilton Hotel in Union Square, San Francisco. The A...Tags: Facebook, Books, Featured, Human Rights, Law, San Francisco, United Nations, Conference, Whitey Bulger, Hilton Hotel, Redwood, Alcatraz Island, Roberts Court, Al Capone, Jonathan H Adler, Oxford University Press 26 people like this. Like Wrapping up the AALS Annual Meeting 2016January 31, 2016 at 4:30 PM  Tags: Books, Law, Michael, Blake, Stephen Breyer, New York Hilton Midtown, Ross Guberman, *Featured, Images & Slideshows, Jo Wojtkowski, Association of American Law Schools, Robert A. Katzmann, Judging Statutes, The Trouble with Lawyers, Deborah L. Rhode, AALS |
