Faculty Awareness Bulletin

SCOTUSblog recently published its ”Super StatPack” compilation.  This report includes statistics with charts, lists, and observations about the OT 07 Supreme Court Term.  To read the complete report, go here.

Topics: Constitutional Law

Take a look at this series of videos  and see eight of the nine justices speaking passionately, sarcastically & angrily into the camera as they answer questions about brief writing, oral advocacy and their own love-hate relationships with the written word.  For more detials, read this article.

Topics: Constitutional Law

The University of California, Irvine Law School will host a conference in May 2008 entitled, The Paradoxes of Race, Law & Inequality in the US and is seeking paper submissions.  To have your paper considered, submit your title with an abstract and a c.v. by October 31, 2007.  For more details go here or contact Carroll Seron at seron@uci.edu or Susan Coutin at scoutin@uci.edu.

Topics: Call for Papers; Constitutional Law

The Tulsa Law Review is inviting submissions for their annual Supreme Court review issue.  They’re seeking papers that address any Supreme Court decision from the 2006-2007 term, and within that range, any issue(s) within that decision.  Papers can also examine an issue that spans multiple Supreme Court cases that were decided within the same term. Submission deadline: January 15, 2008.  For more details, go here or here.

Topics: Call for Papers; Constitutional Law

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently released this report on affirmative action at U.S. law schools.

Topics: Legal Education, Constitutional Law

The University of Richmond has put together a really neat database that allows you to access an impressive number of country constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents.  Simply select the country your interested in and click go. 

Topics: Constitutional Law, International Law, Technology Trends 

For more details, take a look at this Washington Post article that ran today.  Reporter Robert Barnes explains that “after decades of decline in its caseload, the court is once again on track to take its fewest number of cases in modern history.”

Topic: Constitutional Law; News & Events

Reclaiming the First Amendment:
A Conference on Constitutional Theories of Media Reform

January 19, 2007
Hofstra University School of Law

http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Law/law_conference_mediareform.cfm