13+ hour, 33+ min ago   (233+ words) Austen Parrish offered a wonderful post on Dean Danielle Conway’s legacy as dean at Penn State Dickinson Law. A true visionary and dear friend to many, Dean Conway is returning to faculty as a Distinguished Professor of Law after a…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (102+ words) How to Read a Legal Opinion TaxProf Blog July winds down, and the fall semester will be on us before we know it. Always a good time to re-read Professor Orin Kerr’s (Stanford) introductory essay for law students explaining how…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (194+ words) Great books often begin with great questions. My wonderful colleague, Libby Adler, started with this one: “How might a socialist jurisdiction “do” lgbtq legal advancement differently from a jurisdiction, such as the US, where legal advocates have relied heavily on…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (235+ words) Big law firms are enjoying staggering upticks in profitability after years of consolidation and double-digit billing rate increases. That has led to eye-popping compensation for top partners despite concerns that artificial intelligence tools could disrupt the industry. Now the elite…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (298+ words) Kevin R. Johnson is a Mabie-Apallas Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Aoki Center. Johnson also has an appointment as Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. He joined the UC Davis law faculty in 1989 and was named…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (240+ words) Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (402+ words) Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (223+ words) Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (275+ words) Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” is a movie in which characters argue about whether the discovery of extraterrestrial life would be a threat to religion, something that a great many people have decided to argue about since the Pentagon started releasing…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (173+ words) Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring…...