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*Lock-up the semester with FedSoc’s Over-Criminalization event: “
Lock-up the semester with FedSoc’s Over-Criminalization event featuring Radley Balko and Prof. McNeal
The event will address the large influx of federal laws and what it means for American citizens. Lunch will be served in the Appellate Court room @12:30pm on Monday, November 14th. [...]
On September 14, 2011 Pepperdine University will be hosting its Inaugural Technology & Learning Faculty Conference. I will be presenting on Increasing Student Engagement and Measuring Learning with Clickers.
Here is an excerpt from the program:
Professor of Law Gregory McNeal is no novice to teaching with technology. Professor McNeal, who teaches [...]
At Volokh, Orin Kerr posted the results of an interesting survey at GW Law School “What Elective Courses Lawyers Wish They Had Taken in Law School, and What Courses Were Most Useful.” According to Orin:
“The three most useful elective courses students took, according to the responses received:
1. Evidence — 156 respondents (27%)
Under the current system most law reviews accept articles during submission cycles and accept a set number of articles until their issue is full . This process results in a massive influx of articles to journals based on an arbitrary system wide submission date (for details about the process see the ExpressO submission guide here , here and here .) … Given Orin’s prominence a “decent” law review who could publish his work today may lose out in an expedite fight during the regular submission calendar. It seems the system doesn’t benefit authors or journals. Now granted, Orin isn’t your average scholar, and as such he has options.
Chronicle: Pepperdine Chooses Growth by Cutting: “Chronicle of Higher Education, Pepperdine U. Chooses Growth by Cutting; The University Reallocates 10% of its Budget to New Priorities: Nearly three years ago, Andrew K. Benton asked his deans to forfeit a tenth of their budgets. The president of Pepperdine University was eager to hire more tenure-track [...]
The Winter 2010 Issue of the ABA National Security Law Report, the flagship publication of the Standing Committee on Law and National Security is now available on-line here.
Here’s a look at the Table of Contents:
In The Problem With Law Avoidance, Geoffrey S. Corn (South Texas) discusses the controversy associated with defining what [...]
In a post at Morse Code, the US News Rankings Blog, Robert Morse notes explains the unsurprising fact that law schools are reporting to U.S. News the same data that they report to the ABA. The ABA data is publicly available, so this doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me. It doesn’t [...]
I will be in London today, appearing at the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation at Kings College. My talk is entitled “Law Enforcement or Intelligence? Divergent Organizational Goals in U.S. Counterterrorism.”
The talk will describe the organizational structure of the U.S. Department of Justice National Security Division, the [...]
I was recently interviewed by CNN regarding WikiLeaks and what prospective applicants for government jobs should know before publicly reposting the documents. Overall, I think the story fairly captured my thoughts, which can be boiled down to this: Rightly or wrongly, government employers may consider all manner of prior experience, conduct and statements [...]
Here is the announcement from Georgetown:
The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law is pleased to announce a new two-year National Security Law Fellowship designed for a highly-qualified law graduate specializing in national security law who intends to pursue a law teaching career. We seek [...]
Short Biography
Greg McNeal is a professor and national security specialist focusing on the institutions and challenges associated with global security, with substantive expertise in national security law and policy, transnational crime, global policy studies, and international affairs.
He teaches at Pepperdine University's School of Law and School of Public Policy.Recent Posts
- Emerging Issues in International Humanitarian Law: Santa Clara Law
- TELEFORUM- Collateral Damage in Combat Operations 3pm ET TODAY
- Short Summary of Collateral Damage/Targeting Piece Now Posted at Lawfare
- Lawfare on my Targeting and Collateral Damage Article
- Targeted Killing: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World
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