'Tis the season for announcements about law school graduation speakers. William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law checks in early in the season with the announcement that John Edwards, former vice presidential hopeful and now professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, will address its spring 2005 graduates in a ceremony on May 15, 2005. It is possible, although merely speculative, that the college's president-elect, current UNC dean Gene Nichol, had some hand in the selection.

Elsewhere, on JD2B, editor Marshall Camp points to some interesting discussion in the legal blogosphere, including 1) suggestions that law schools should subsidize their professors' blogging activities, inspired by a recent paper by Professor Larry Ribstein of the University of Illinois College of Law and picked up by Dan Markel, among others, here; and 2) observations on the apparently diminishing size of teaching loads for law professors, started by an informal survey by Professor Gordon Smith of the University of Wisconsin Law School, here. Smith senses "that reduced teaching loads become increasingly rare as you descend in the rankings" and speculates that "[t]he shift in teaching loads is being driven by the market for law professors." Camp also links to a message board report, confirmed by a Washington Square News story today, that a student at the New York University School of Law asked Justice Antonin Scalia, "Do you sodomize your wife?," at an NYU Q-and-A Tuesday. According to the story, Scalia refused to answer the question and administrators promptly turned off the questioner's microphone.