GAO Report: Higher Education – Issues Related to Law School Cost and Access

The U.S. Government Accounting Office recently released a report to Congressional Committees that examines issues relating to law school cost and access.  For a full-text copy of the report, go here.

Topics: Legal Education

Uniform Bar Exam Drawing Closer to Reality

For more details, read this National Law Journal article from October 12, 2009.

Topics: Legal Education

Journalism and The New Media Ecology

The Knight Law and Media Program & Information Society Project will be holding the following conference at Yale Law School, November 13 & 14, 2009:  Journalism and The New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?

For more details and to register, go here.

Topics: Conferences & Symposia

Labor Arbitration in A Time of Economic Crisis: How Cases are Argued by Advocates and Decided by Arbitrators

This conference will be held in Washington, D.C. on October 22nd and 23rd, 2009 and is sponsored by the Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations School and the American Arbitration Association.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Labor Law; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Conferences & Symposia

International Law Conference – Greece

The 7th Annual International Conference on Law will be held in Athens, Greece from July 19 -22, 2010. For information about submitting a paper, abstract deadlines, registration information and past program materials, go here.

Topics: International Law; Calls for Papers; Conferences and Symposia

ABA/Section of Dispute Resolution – Call for Program Proposals

The ABA section of dispute resolution is looking for proposals for the 2010 spring conference.  Proposal deadline is August 24, 2009.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Alternative Dispute Resolution; Calls for Papers

AALS Annual Meeting – Call for Papers

For more information about submitting a paper for one of the AALS programs in New Orleans, from January 6 – 10, 2010,  go here.  Deadlines vary, but many are coming up at the end of August/ beginning of September.

Topics: Legal Education, Calls for Papers

Fellowship Opportunities for Law Professors

A Reference Librarian at Drake Law Library recently put together this list of fellowship opportunities for law professors to pursue while on sabbatical:

American Council of Learned Societies

ASIL

Bellagio Center by the Rockefeller Foundation

Berkeley Law Social Justice, Senior Visiting Scholars

Columbia law visiting scholars

The Community of Science database (subscription-based), a searchable database of fellowships and grants.

Cornell Visiting Scholars

Flinders University (Australia)

Fulbright Distinguished chairs program

Fulbright traditional scholars

Georgetown Law visiting scholar (fee waivers are often granted.)

Guggenheim

Law and Public Affairs at Princeton

Melbourne Law School Visiting Scholar Program

Northwestern Law Visiting Scholars

SPIN from InfoEd, subscription-based grant search program.

SSRN often publishes this kind of information in their weekly professional announcements newsletters.

Swiss institute of Comparative Law, Van Calker Fellow

U of SC Law and Liberal Arts Visiting Scholar

Topics: Legal Education

Public Interest Law: Call for Papers

The Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal is seeking submissions from current law students, legal practitioners, and legal faculty for Volume 2. They’ll be accepting submissions until July 3, 2009.  Articles may be submitted via “ExpressO” or by email to submissions.lapilj@gmail.com.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Public Interest Law, Calls for Papers

New Harvard Law Dean Announced

Martha Minow, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will become Harvard’s new dean on July 1, 2009.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Legal Education