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"A" Is For America. "A" Is For Afghanistan.

Posted on March 12, 2009
Need a reminder that we live in the greatest country in the world? An Afghan student journalist was arrested in 2007, accused of authoring and distributing an article discussing the role of women in Islam and charged with blasphemy. Parwiz...

Call For Papers On Constitutional Law: AALS 2010

Posted on March 11, 2009
As Rick Garnett reports over at Prawfs, the AALS section on Constitutional Law is holding its second annual Steven G. Gey Call for Papers. There are panel details over at Prawfs, but here's the actual announcement: At the 2010 Annual...

Prisoner Re-Entry and the Second Chance Act

Posted on March 11, 2009
One aspect of sentencing and punishment we far too often forget is on the back-end of sentencing: what to do with released prisoners. Although lately there has been more focus on the prisoner re-entry problem, there is still far to...

Survey Says ... WHAT?!?!?!

Posted on March 11, 2009
Do you believe:1) that absolute moral truth exists?2) the Bible is completely accurate in all of the principles it teaches?3) Satan is a real being or force, not merely symbolic?4) a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying...

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2009 Law School Hiring Lists - Everything Fresh And Updated

Posted on March 10, 2009
The 2009 law faculty lateral hiring list has been freshly updated here. And Larry Solum has now posted his first version of the entry level law faculty hiring list here. Good stuff for academic gawkers.

Starting Salaries Coming Down

Posted on March 10, 2009
The Chicago Tribune's reported yesterday that McGuire Woods is cutting starting salaries 10%:Law firms have rescinded job offers because of the recession. Others have pushed back start dates by several months or asked incoming lawyers to defer their jobs for...

Alabama Attorney General's Office Under Federal Investigation

Posted on March 10, 2009
Politics in Alabama is rough stuff. And so is law. Governor Don Siegelman went to jail on corruption charges for conduct that is at most a tick or two beyond S.O.P. in the Yellowhammer State. Now it appears that the...

Stigma Watch: Could Cravath Be Next For Layoffs? Will They Pioneer Pay Cuts?

Posted on March 10, 2009
Last week I suggested that the potent stigma preventing layoffs at top-shelf firms was melting away. Thinking about the Latham & Watkins layoffs, I wrote: Latham is so large and reputable, and these layoffs so public, that a good number...

Ninth Circuit Oral Argument in CLS v. Kane

Posted on March 10, 2009
I attended the oral argument this morning in Christian Legal Society v. Kane (06-15956), an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the University of California, Hastings. As is true of many universities and law schools, Hastings subsidizes officially...

Lilley on Bar Addresses

Posted on March 09, 2009
Now for something new, from a fellow laborer in the literary and bar address vineyard. Stephen Lilley has recently posted his article, "The Hard Work of 'Hard Work': The Legal Elite's Rhetoric of Diligence and the Professionalization of the Law,...

USSC Decides Important Voting Rights Act Case

Posted on March 09, 2009
The Supreme Court today issued its decision in Bartlett v. Strickland, holding that section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not require racial gerrymandering when the proportion of minority voters in a district is less than 50% of the...

"Cross"ing the Tenth Circuit

Posted on March 09, 2009
A10th Circuit panel (judges Deanell Reece Tacha, David M. Ebel, and Harris L. Hartz) is hearing oral arguments today in American Athiests, et al. v. Duncan, et al. , to address whether the placement along Utah highways of privately-funded crosses...

Ranking (and Evaluating) College Presidents and Faculty: Advice from the Dartmouth Review

Posted on March 09, 2009
Joseph Asch '79 has an op-ed piece over at The Dartmouth Review ("A Good New President?") about what the new Dartmouth president should be like--a respected scholar is at the head of his wish list. (They sure got that in...

Nonsense and Taxes

Posted on March 09, 2009
Dorothy Brown, a tax professor at Emory, has an op-ed piece in today's New York Times, in which she argues that all income should be taxed at the same rate. Well, not quite. She wants capital gains and dividends to...

1L Of A Ride

Posted on March 09, 2009
Professor Andrew McClurg holds the Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence in Law at The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Some readers may know him through his scholarship and expertise in tort law, products liability, privacy law,...

Expedited Review and Professorial Puffery

Posted on March 08, 2009
I was having lunch with some colleagues the other day (they know who they are) and we got to talking about how much professorial puffery to include in cover letters when we submit to law reviews - Tim Z. posted...

An Alternative Supreme Court Shortlist - From Teresa Roseborough To Ricky Revesz

Posted on March 07, 2009
Christina Nwachukwu Jr., over at Huffington Post, has proposed an interesting, impressive, and unexpected list of potential Supreme Court nominees. He has intentionally passed over many of the media darlings, focusing more intensively (but not exclusively) on highly qualified women...

Jonathan Adler & The Barbie Malibu Dream House! Cooking With Elvis! And A Link To Law!

Posted on March 07, 2009
Have you seen Barbie's real-life Malibu Dream House? It's a 3500 square foot house in Malibu, California - and it's been dolled up as a 50th anniversary Barbie promotion by Mattel. No, it will never be inhabited by Barbie. She...

Evaluating Evaluations

Posted on March 07, 2009
The Houston Chronicle has run contrary editorials in recent days on the role that student evaluations should play in determining the quality / proficiency of teaching and the classroom experience. See here and here.

Even Harvard Law School Is Having Job Placement Anxiety

Posted on March 06, 2009

Potential Plea Deal for Bernie Madoff

Posted on March 06, 2009
Various news sources report today that Bernie Madoff may strike a plea deal with prosecutors:[M]oney manager Bernard L. Madoff has agreed to waive his right to a formal grand jury review of accusations that he conducted a worldwide Ponzi scheme,...

Legal Cartoon Blog

Posted on March 06, 2009
My friend, David Mills of The Mills Law Office in Cleveland, has been producing a legal cartoon blog in his spare time. Courtoons publishes daily, Monday through Friday. The blog proves that you can be both a serious lawyer and...

Al Marri Suit Dismissed; Fourth Circuit Opinion Vacated

Posted on March 06, 2009
After the Justice Department decided to transfer Ali Al Marri, a Qatari national lawfully resident in the United States, from a military jail to the federal criminal system for trial in the federal courts, the Supreme Court today dismissed Al...

Horton Hears A Mockingbird

Posted on March 06, 2009
Award-winning storyteller Horton Foote died earlier this week at the age of 92. Foote, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Young Man From Atlanta, is perhaps best known to those of us in the legal profession for...

Collateral Damage in the Mortgage Modification Bill: Gold Clause Cases Redux

Posted on March 06, 2009
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy Todd Zywicki has this post in which he notes that the House version of the mortgage modification bankruptcy bill contains a provision that declares to be "unenforceable" any term in a contract that allocates bankruptcy...

Twelfth Annual Law, Culture, and Humanities Conference, April 3-4 At Suffolk Law

Posted on March 06, 2009
April 3rd-4th, 2009The Twelfth Annual Conference for the Association of the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities will be hosted by Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MassachusettsConference webpage here. Our keynote speaker for the meeting in April will...

The B-I-B-L-E: Yes That's The Book For Me!

Posted on March 05, 2009

New Harvard Law Dean By July 1? Howell Jackson Says So

Posted on March 05, 2009

The Establishment Clause: A Case of "Constitutional Estoppel"?

Posted on March 05, 2009

The Latest Cultural Property Dispute...

Posted on March 05, 2009

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