Determining the ethics of intentionally losing a game to gain something greater in the future—known as “tanking” or “throwing the game”—seems like a no-brainer in that the practice is just wrong. Though…deciphering the logic of this conclusion actually does require…
The NCAA has a very narrow time frame within which men’s basketball players have to decide whether to withdraw their names from the NBA draft. This year, a young man with NCAA eligibility remaining who submits his name to the…
This is a list of clerkship positions recently added to OSCAR. To see other recently added clerkships, follow the “Judicial Clerkship” tag to see other posts. To see all available clerkship positions, please go to: https://oscar.uscourts.gov/. If students have any…
AIPLEF AWARDS Santa Clara Law can nominate one graduating student to compete for various national awards administered by the American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation, including the prestigious Jan Jancin Award with a cash prize of $5,000. The nominated student…
Even as NCAA March Madness prepares to consume America for the next few weeks, the foundation of amateurism on which the NCAA is based continues to be threatened. Please see this link for information on the most recent piece of…
This is a list of clerkship positions recently added to OSCAR. To see other recently added clerkships, follow the “Judicial Clerkship” tag to see other posts. To see all available clerkship positions, please go to: https://oscar.uscourts.gov/. If students have any…
Do you study Political Science, International Relations or Security Studies?Are you an interdisciplinary candidate with qualifications in Economics, Finance, or Human Resources?Have you studied Information Technology, Web or Graphic design, or Library Sciences?Do you study Aeronautics or Engineering?Do you have…
After 30 years on death row in Louisiana, Glenn Ford is now a free man. Ford was convicted in 1984 for a murder he did not commit. The victim, Isadore Rozeman, owned a small jewelry shop in Shreveport, LA. On…
I thought in this post I’d talk about the research I do and how students can get involved with it. I work primarily in the field of sentencing and corrections—that is, the legal and policy issues that occur after the trial…
The unfortunate reality of negative recruiting, the practice of a coach criticizing a rival rather than focusing on the merits of his or her own school, was something I dealt with on a continuing basis during my time as an…