December 7, 2007

All-legal-academia edition:

• Furor over charges by Columbia's William Simon that legal ethicists hire out erroneous opinions [SSRN, Leiter, Perlman, Steele, Simon response, NLJ]
• With all due respect to Georgetown lawprof Rosa Brooks, 2007 America really isn't much like 1930s Germany [Beam, Globe]
• Saints preserve us: U. Cinn. lawprof argues that summary judgment is unconstitutional [SSRN, Reed, Prawfsblawg] P.S. And motions to dismiss too.
• Class-action lawsuit against Paducah, Ky. law school claims accreditation unlikely and students have spent money in vain [AP/Lexington Herald-Leader, Paducah Sun courtesy ILR]
• JAG recruitment and conformity pressures at Stanford and elsewhere [Bainbridge]
• In most small-claims class actions "there is no legitimate reason to care" whether class members are "compensated at all" contends Cardozo lawprof and attorney co-author [Penn. L. Rev./SSRN via Ribstein]