Dallas Morning News, Former SMU Law Dean Arrested on Prostitution Charge: The former dean of the Southern Methodist Law school was arrested early Sunday on a prostitution charge, jail records show. John Attanasio, 60, was booked into the Collin County jail Sunday. He was released later that day after posting…

Wall Street Journal, Calling the Super Bowl Like Cris Collinsworth: In the two weeks before the Super Bowl, the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks are combing through endless amounts of tape. They are memorizing until they have instant recall to make split-second decisions and they are highlighting the mismatches…

David Barnhizer (Cleveland State), The Betrayal of Socrates: My argument here is that there is a stark disjunction between the Socratic ideal and the reality found in the First Year of law school at nearly all institutions. The underlying assumption is simple—the initial foundational phase of an activity is the…

National Jurist, Enrollment Up at 9 California Law Schools: Law school enrollment dropped by 7.2 percent this year, but 33 law schools bucked the trend and increased enrollment. Nine of those law schools hail from California — more than any other state. “We aren’t in an arctic vortex,” joked Edward…

New Haven Register op-ed: Another Son Stopped for Being Black at Yale, by Stephen Carter (Yale): The columnist Charles M. Blow of the New York Times has sparked debate this week by his disclosure that his son, a student at Yale College, was stopped at gunpoint by a Yale police…

The Daily Californian op-ed, Occupy the Syllabus: We are calling for an occupation of syllabi in the social sciences and humanities. This call to action was instigated by our experience last semester as students in an upper-division course on classical social theory. Grades were based primarily on multiple-choice quizzes on…

UC-Berkeley Press Release, Campus Poised to Act on Salary Gaps for Women, Minority Faculty: The gaps aren’t large, nor are the causes clear. But the campus is already planning to act on new findings that average salaries for women and minority-group faculty at UC Berkeley lag behind those for white…