Law Professors

New Law School LLM Programs Teach Attorneys to Be Entrepreneurial

After a year of unprecedented BigLaw layoffs and pay cuts, Duke University is offering a new law school program that could help point some attorneys in a different direction. Apparently starting this fall, the new Law and Entrepreneurship LLM Program will offer a two-semester post-Juris Doctor master’s degree to teach…

Jan 23, 2010 2:14 AM CST

Liberal Law Prof Thrills Conservatives with Claim of Class Action ‘Pathologies’

A respected senior academic known for his groundbreaking theory, while still a third-year law student at Harvard University in 1970, that the constitution protects corporate speech is making another novel argument. And, ironically, the argument by Martin Redish, a longtime Northwestern University law professor whose personal political leanings are liberal,…

Jan 21, 2010 12:06 AM CST

Lawmaker Rejects US Apology, Asks Why FBI Used His Photo for Bin Laden Wanted Poster

An initially incredulous and now outraged Spanish lawmaker has rejected a United States apology and is demanding an investigation of the FBI’s admitted use of his digitally altered photographic image from a 2004 election photograph. It was the basis for a wanted poster of Osama bin Laden that was displayed…

Jan 20, 2010 1:51 AM CST

SEC Shines Tarnished Top-Cop Badge, Looks to DOJ for Post-Madoff Playbook

Embarrassed by lapses that allowed Bernard Madoff to operate a record-breaking Ponzi scheme for years despite warnings that his claimed hedge-fund earnings had to be fraudulent, officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission are shining the federal agency’s tarnished top-cop badge. Seeking to enhance the SEC’s reputation as a tough…

Jan 15, 2010 12:22 AM CST

Meet Eugene Volokh, Blogging Law Prof Who Likes Glocks & Gunners

Born in the USSR, Eugene Volokh might years ago have seemed an unlikely guide to certain portions of the legal universe, as far as American lawyers and law students are concerned. But that’s what he is. A tech-savvy law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, he is…

Jan 14, 2010 12:20 AM CST

Harvard Law Prof’s ‘Lightning Bolts’ are Losing Power Over Financial Firms, Analyst Says

The frightening prospect to those in the financial industry of seeing a well-known Harvard University law professor at the helm of a proposed new federal consumer watchdog is lessening by the day. Legislative support for creating the independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency proposed by President Barack Obama is rapidly waning,…

Jan 12, 2010 9:36 PM CST

Jon Stewart: Terrorists May Talk if Forced to Watch His Yoo Interview

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Jan 12, 2010 12:43 PM CST

Lessons Learned from Judge Who Cut Parole Violations By Enforcing Rules

Confronted a little over five years ago with a hefty docket of ongoing parole violations, many related to drug issues, a state-court judge in Hawaii had a better idea. Released inmates, it seemed, were allowed to ignore the rules repeatedly, with no real consequence. Then, perhaps the 10th time they…

Jan 12, 2010 1:17 AM CST

More Law Profs Ban Laptop Use in Class

Concerned that law students’ use of laptop computers in the classroom is interfering with their legal education, some professors at Villanova University School of Law are banning them within their own classrooms. “Professors here at Villanova, and indeed at law schools across the country, have been wrestling with concerns about…

Jan 12, 2010 12:47 AM CST

Obama Renominates Controversial Law Prof to Head OLC

An Indiana law professor who drew fire over her abortion views has been renominated to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. President Obama renominated Dawn Johnsen, who once served as legal counsel to the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America, according to the New York Times and The…

Jan 8, 2010 4:11 PM CST

Furman Official Says Talk of New S.C. Law School Is Urban Legend

Furman University officials say the hire of a leading law dean as its new president doesn’t signal an intention to form a third law school in South Carolina. Furman’s new president, Rodney Smolla, was dean of Washington & Lee University’s law school, where he led an innovative program that pushes…

Jan 7, 2010 1:26 PM CST

Law Prof’s Advice to Suspended Wizards Guard: Turn Off Twitter

Providing a legal analysis tonight of the National Basketball Association’s stunning indefinite suspension today, without pay, of Gilbert Arenas, a Vermont Law School assistant professor offered a succinct suggestion to the star Washington Wizards guard: Turn off your Twitter account. It was bad enough to bring guns, which apparently may…

Jan 7, 2010 1:39 AM CST

Almost 1/3 of Law Students Expect to Graduate with $120K Debt

The percentage of law students expecting to graduate with more than $120,000 in student debt is continuing its upward climb. Twenty-nine percent of law students surveyed said they expect to owe more than $120,000 at graduation, up from 23 percent in 2008, 19 percent in 2007 and 18 percent in…

Jan 6, 2010 2:23 PM CST

Palin Says US Needs a Leader, Not a Law Professor

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin isn’t impressed with President Obama’s past experience as a law professor at the University of Chicago. In a note posted yesterday on Facebook, Palin complained that Obama’s “fundamental approach to terrorism is fatally flawed,” according to the CBS News blog Political Hotsheet. “The real nature…

Jan 6, 2010 1:28 PM CST

The Job Market Is Tough for Law Grads in China, Too

A new study supports the tales of woe told by recent law graduates in China. It is more difficult to find a job in law than any other profession studied, the China Daily reports. The story cites a June 2009 study by China’s Academy of Social Science and the Mycos…

Jan 5, 2010 12:42 PM CST