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Wanted: ?Socially Distinct Newcomer? Who Can Teach Evidence, Torts, And Secured Transactions

Posted on April 03, 2009
Would you hire Dwight K. Schrute? A new study suggests you should. Academics at BYU, Northwestern, and Stanford have co-authored an article entitled Is the Pain Worth the Gain? The Advantages and Liabilities of Agreeing With Socially Distinct Newcomers, published...

Habeas Corpus Granted To Detainees Held By US Military In Afghanistan

Posted on April 02, 2009
Federal district judge John Bates (District of Columbia) ruled today (Thursday) that two Yemenis and a Tunisian have a right to challenge their imprisonment at a U.S. military air base in Bagram, Afghanistan. Story here. Opinion (53 pages) here.

Iowa Supreme Court To Rule On Gay Marriage Tomorrow Morning

Posted on April 02, 2009
This just in, from the incredibly media-savvy Court Communications Officer at Iowa Supreme Court. The Court will hand down a decision in an important gay marriage case, Varnum v. Brien, tomorrow at 8:30 a.m., Central Time. Set your watches, alarm...

Surfing boosts productivity--who knew?

Posted on April 02, 2009
Thanks to Dan for inviting me to guest blog this month. I've enjoyed reading The Faculty Lounge since its inception, and it's one of several blogs that I tend to check daily. Happily, new research from the University of Melbourne...

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Larry Ponoroff New Dean At Arizona Law; Wendell Pritchett Named Rutgers Chancellor

Posted on April 02, 2009
Lots of law professor administration news this afternoon. Larry Ponoroff, the dean of Tulane University law school has been selected the new dean at the University of Arizona James E. Roger College of Law. Ponoroff has been dean at Tulane...

Comprehensive New Analysis of the Federalist Papers

Posted on April 02, 2009
It's a little outside my main area of study, but I was struck by the cogent analysis and pithy scholarship of Rob Tsai's new book review about the Federalist Papers. To paraphrase the great Larry Solum, read it while it's...

Is The ABA Biased Or Accurate? Liberal Judges May Just Be Better

Posted on April 02, 2009
Ask yourself this: should a good judge exhibit open mindedness? A commitment to equal justice? Compassion? There's an awful good case to be made that most of us - including folks of all different political stripes - would see these...

E-Z Pass is Too Easy on In State Residents

Posted on April 02, 2009
The New York Times reports on constitutional challenges to the practice of giving in-state residents a break on tolls rung up through E-Z pass. In-state residents using E-Z Pass get charged a lesser amount than out-of-staters equipped with the same...

Revolutionary Breakthrough in Cellphone Technology

Posted on April 01, 2009
Qualcomm, a pioneer in wireless telecommunications research and development, has announced that it has created "device-free, state-of-the-art wireless technology in your hand -- allowing you to have mobile access anytime, anywhere." Story here.

Brooklyn Law To Field NCAA Basketball Team in 2010-11

Posted on April 01, 2009
Taking advantage of a little-used loophole in NCAA regulations, Brooklyn Law School has just announced that it will be fielding a Division 1 basketball squad, starting only 18 months from now. The team, tentatively called the Barristers, is expected to...

Fun with acronyms....

Posted on April 01, 2009
OK - so this is me just being frivolous because I can see the end of the semester in sight. I've always been both amused and irritated by all those acronyms for university departments that are bandied about, and I...

Tax Planning Advice For Faculty Visiting At Other Universities

Posted on April 01, 2009
Paul Caron notes, today, that faculty who are off teaching at other colleges and universities face certain tax consequences. Some are good, some are bad. But because they are all predictable, the best advice for any sensible law professor is...

Justice Department to Ask that Senator Stevens's Conviction be Voided

Posted on April 01, 2009
The New York Times reports that the Justice Department will ask that the conviction of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens be voided, after discovery of even more prosecutorial misconduct. The entire prosecution now seems to be so riddled with prosecutorial...

Law School And University Faculty Salary Data: A Compensation Compendium

Posted on March 31, 2009
This may be controversial, but I'm going to take the plunge. As a unrepentant aggregator, I think that one goal of blogging is to bring together public information in a useful manner. In this case, that useful data is (are?)...

Welcome Guest Blogger Cassandra Robertson

Posted on March 31, 2009
We're very pleased to welcome Cassandra Burke Robertson to the Lounge. Professor Robinson is a member of the Case Western Reserve School of Law faculty. She is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. Her recent publication,...

University of Virginia Professor Salaries 2008 - Law Faculty Do Well

Posted on March 31, 2009
The Cavalier Daily is at it again, publishing the (presumably 9-month) salaries of every professor at the University of Virginia. If you're interested in learning a ton about law faculty compensation, here is the complete chart of University of Virginia...

Free Sederware: A Modern Haggadah For The Facebook Generation

Posted on March 31, 2009
Thanks to David Bernstein, here's a Facebook retelling of the Jews' Exodus from Egypt. This smart-ass story may even catch the ear of the "wicked" child (who is defined, according to aish.com as " the rebel who wants to succeed...

Nell Newton to become Notre Dame's Dean

Posted on March 31, 2009
Nell Jessup Newton, the Chancellor and Dean of the University of California, Hastings, will become Dean at Notre Dame's Law School this summer. She has been our Dean for three years, a time in which Hastings has accomplished increases in...

Drucilla Stender Ramey Appointed Dean at Golden Gate

Posted on March 31, 2009
Drucilla Stender Ramey has been named the new Dean of Golden Gate University School of Law, following years of teaching, lawyering and public service. In 2005, she was appointed Executive Director of the National Association of Women Judges, and previously...

Litchfiled Law School

Posted on March 30, 2009
Mary Bilder mentioned that there are some other antebellum law school buildings--beyond Princeton Law School's--that have survived into the twentieth century. She mentioned Litchfield Law School's building in particular. Thanks to the Library of Congress' website on the Historic Building...

Submitting Essays, not Articles

Posted on March 30, 2009
What is the difference between an Article and an Essay? The distinction is fine. Both have solid arguments, researched premises, and most importantly, footnotes. Each are posted on Lexis and Westlaw, and come out in printed form. However, they often....

A Well-Paid Slave

Posted on March 30, 2009
I grew up in the (then) small town of Warrenton, Missouri, about 60 miles west of St. Louis. So I?m a die-hard Cardinals baseball fan. Some of my fondest childhood memories are listening to Jack Buck call the games on...

Tomorrow's The Big Day - And No, Not U.S. News Rankings

Posted on March 30, 2009
When old folk like me applied to college, we waited to get the envelopes from our target schools - wondering whether they would be thin or thick, and what their particular dimensions might imply. You didn't know what day it...

March Madness From A Different Perspective

Posted on March 30, 2009
Why Colleges Become More Dangerous Places for Female Students During ?March Madness? Via Katherine Franke at Gender and Sexuality Law Blog Last Friday night, the Syracuse men?s basketball team was routed by Oklahoma, losing 84-71 - in no small measure...

Phoebe Haddon To Become Next Dean At Maryland Law

Posted on March 30, 2009
Phoebe Haddon, a professor at Temple Law, has been named the new dean at The University of Maryland School of Law. Haddon has been at Temple since 1981 and is very involved in ABA activities around legal education. She is...

Bud Selig, Someone Wants Your Job!

Posted on March 28, 2009
He has been a partner at a prestigious law firm, a justice on a state supreme court, legal counsel to the President, and Attorney General of the United States. But his dream job? MLB commissioner! Catch up with Alberto Gonzales...

The Law Faculty Hiring Process: Does The Rise Of VAPs Hurt Women?

Posted on March 27, 2009
There is an interesting dialogue going on at the Volokh Conspiracy over the value, and costs, of new hiring norms in law schools. By way of background, Corey Yung at Co-Op pointed out that law school hiring has radically tilted...

Newly Liberal Orrin Hatch Seeks Federal Regulation Of BCS College Football Playoffs

Posted on March 27, 2009
It seems like Orrin Hatch and Barack Obama have some common ground: they both believe that college football should have a playoff system. We don't know whether the President believes we should make a federal case out of it, but...

Offshore Tax Evaders: You Deserve A Break Today!

Posted on March 27, 2009
Leave it to the IRS to offer a creative incentive plan aimed at putting more money in the federal collection plate. Individuals with offshore accounts must file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts with the IRS if the...

The Birth of March Madness

Posted on March 27, 2009
On this date in history, the NCAA concluded its first-ever men's basketball tournament, and the phrase "March Madness" took on a whole new meaning (separate and apart from any reference to the law review submission season). So here are some...

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