The George Washington University Law School is hosting a conference, Aggregate Litigation: Critical Perspectives, that may be of interest to our readers. Description and details after the jump: Aggregate litigation lies at the core of American exceptionalism in litigation and...

And we have a new favourite politician : Meet Dr. "Goodluck Jonathan" Nigeria's new acting President who assumed powers today after President Umaru Yar'Adua, who has been ailing and out of the country for the last two months, called the BBC and said he was in Saudi Arabia recovering from a heart ...

Axel Honneth (social and political philosophy, esp. critical theory), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, will take up a half-time post in a new Chair in the Humanities in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University, starting in fall...

Seton Hall University School of Law hosts the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Sept. 9-12, 2010. The conference theme is Our Country, Our World in a “Post-Racial” Era. It will feature panels on the “war on terror,” urban revitalization, criminal law, health ca ...

Capital University Law Review and the National Conference for Adoption Law and Policy announce the Sixth Annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law: Please join the Capital University Law Review and the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy for –...

We've wondered for weeks why the applications to Cornell Law School are so high this year. A look at the numbers at comparable schools doesn't really explain it.

Margaret Gilhooley, Seton Hall University School of Law, has published "Drug Safety and Commercial Speech: Television Advertisements and Reprints on Off-Label Uses." Here is the abstract. This paper examines how the constitutional protections for commercial speech have limited the ability...

Supreme Court Justice David Souter will speak at Harvard University’s spring commencement ceremony. Souter is scheduled to speak on May 27 2010 (the school’s 359th commencement) in the Tercentenary Theatre of Harvard Yard. He was a Rhodes Scholar and earned his law degree from Harvard Law in 1966. S ...

A few months back, the Student Bar Association at Northwestern University School of Law got its panties in a bunch over inappropriate language and the "unthinking use of stereotypes." Saying that you were "raped" by an exam, for example, was offensive to some on campus, said the SBA. (They preferred ...

Adam Liptak has an excellent piece in the New York Times about . Hopwood, who is now working as a paralegal, got his job with a reference from former Solicitor General Seth Waxman. Shon Hopwood, who transformed himself in Federal prison from a bad bank robber to an excellent jailhouse lawyer ...