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Duke/UNC Corporate Board Diversity Conference

Posted on March 06, 2010
Duke and UNC law schools and Duke Energy are hosting a conference on corporate board diversity April 16th, 2010, at the University of North Carolina. Admission is free -- more information here. Paper authors include: Lissa L. Broome (UNC, law),...

Measuring the Rapid Rise in Citations to Judge Posner's Opinions

Posted on March 06, 2010
Christopher McCurdy and Ryan Thompson of Duke Law School have just posted a new study of citations to Judge Posner's opinions, "The Power of Posner: A Study of Prestige and Influence in the Federal Judiciary" (available here). Here's their abstract:....

Does the World Need US Tort Law? Pepperdine Tort Symposium

Posted on March 06, 2010
The Pepperdine Law Review is hosting a symposium on April 16th, 2010 entitled, "Does the World Still Need United States Tort Law? Or Did it Ever?" The symposium will examine the present and future influence of United States tort law...

Oscar Countdown: Day 1

Posted on March 06, 2010
Today's question (an idea triggered by Lance's question earlier this week): name the films in which these ten quotes are heard. Each film received a Best Picture nomination (and a few won the award). The parenthetical number represents where the...

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Ah, I see . . .

Posted on March 06, 2010
All is fine at Citigroup. Just those pesky short-sellers causing trouble again. See: Citigroup Woes Due to Short Selling, Says Chief And no need to worry about Greece anymore, now that it?s borrowed yet more money, this time at high...

Schools Seeking Visiting Professors

Posted on March 05, 2010
Updated 3/5/10 and moved to the top When a law school wants to bring in an experienced professor to visit - simply to cover a few classes - it can be challenging to figure out who might be interested in...

Another Big Loss from the Ranks of the Just: Dan Pollitt, 1921-2010

Posted on March 05, 2010
UNC Law Dean Jack Boger circulated the following announcement today: It is with great sadness that I convey the news that Dan Pollitt, Graham Kenan Emeritus Professor of Law and one of the most extraordinary figures in the life and...

US News Seeking Assistance on Its Diversity Index

Posted on March 05, 2010
Over at Morse Code, Bob Morse -- US News' rankings guru -- is asking for assistance in developing US News' diversity measure for law schools. This is in response to the criticism in Wendy Espeland's and Michael Sauder's recent article...

Oscar Countdown: Day 2

Posted on March 05, 2010
Today's question, courtesy of Jacqui Lipton: This year, two science fiction movies have been nominated for Best Picture - District 9 and Avatar. It is very unusual for a science fiction film to be nominated for Best Picture and no...

The John Roberts Resignation: Who Says That Law Schools Live In A Bubble?

Posted on March 05, 2010
In Peter Tague's criminal law class yesterday, he shared the secret that Chief Justice John Roberts planned to resign. His apparent goal: to teach around the issue of the reliabilty of informants. But while this might have been an innocent...

Cynthia Fountaine Named Dean At Southern Illinois Law

Posted on March 05, 2010
Southern Illinois University School of Law has successfully completed its dean search, naming Cynthia Fountaine to the post effective this summer. Fountaine is a professor at Texas Wesleyan School of Law and served as that school's interim dean from 2006-08...

Off To Vancouver

Posted on March 05, 2010
I'm off to Vancouver to give a talk next week, Narratives of Diversity in The Corporate Boardroom, sponsored by The National Centre for Business Law at the University of British Columbia. Yes, I know I missed the Olympics. Lounge readers...

Holy Snowflake!!

Posted on March 04, 2010
In a culture over-saturated with sex, it's funny to think what still offends. Take the Venus de Milo to the left, created by a family in New Jersey who received a visit from the cops following an anonymous complaint. The...

Greece Updates: You Can't Blame The Mirror For Your Ugly Face

Posted on March 04, 2010
From Anna Gelpern, It?s All Greek to Me FAQ (Parts I and II) Dealbook, Greece Moves Ahead With Bond Sale Dealbook, Governments Press Funds on European Bets Bloomberg, U.S. Said to Tell Hedge Funds to Save Euro Records Spiegel Online...

Oscar Countdown: Day 3

Posted on March 04, 2010
Today's question, courtesy of Garrett Levin: Name the four actors and one actress who have been nominated for playing the same character in two different films. Pictured: A Man for All Seasons (1966), which brought Robert Shaw an Oscar nomination...

Utah Law Professor Scott Matheson Nominated For Tenth Circuit

Posted on March 04, 2010
Scott Matheson Jr., the Hugh B. Brown Presidential Endowed Chair in Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney School of Law, has just been nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He would take the...

Sign of the Times?

Posted on March 03, 2010
Listed for sale on the San Francisco Craig'sList is a law degree, offered for $59,000 and change. You may check it out here. Hat Tip to my colleague John Leshy.

A Critique of Critics

Posted on March 03, 2010
I am delighted to return to The Lounge as a guest this month. Since there have been so many great posts about the Oscars, I thought I would chime in about film reviews, generally. I just skimmed an interesting article...

Voting For This Year's "Best Picture"

Posted on March 03, 2010
Not since Casablanca beat nine other film nominees for the Best Picture award in 1942 has the Academy honored more than five films with Best Picture nominations. That changed this year, as the Academy chose to honor ten films with...

Oscar Countdown: Day 4

Posted on March 03, 2010
Today's question, courtesy of Kelly Anders: Sidney Lumet has received nominations for Best Director for two top legal dramas, and he has directed 17 actors (men and women) in Oscar-nominated performances for Best Actor or Actress. Of those 17, four...

Steel Cage Match at the VC!

Posted on March 03, 2010
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, they're getting ready to rumble. And they dig themselves some guns over there, too -- so don't get caught in the crossfire!

New Approaches to Law School Hiring?

Posted on March 03, 2010
As the hiring season draws to a close, I've been pondering the merits of our current approach to hiring both entry level and lateral candidates - as I'm sure many of us have been. I'm not particularly thinking about the...

Compensation Redux: William And Mary Faculty Salaries

Posted on March 03, 2010
We've previously found links to faculty compensation numbers for professors at William and Mary. Those links disappeared. But here's a fresh one - showing comprehensive instructor pay data for the whole university. For those interested in compensation data at other...

The Entry Level Hiring Survey Has Begun!

Posted on March 03, 2010
Larry Solum has begun his annual survey of entry level law faculty hiring over at Legal Theory Blog. The introductory post is here. You can hop right over to the survey instrument - in this case, Survey Monkey - here....

Cahn & Carbone on Red Families v. Blue Families

Posted on March 02, 2010
Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture, by Naomi Cahn (GW, law) and June Carbone (UMKC, law) is now available from Oxford University Press. From the OUP product description: Red Families v. Blue Families identifies...

CSU Announces New Interim Dean

Posted on March 02, 2010
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports today that Phyllis Crocker has been appointed Interim Dean at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University. She replaces Geoffrey Mearns who stood down on January 28 when he was appointed Interim Provost (should...

McDonald Oral Argument

Posted on March 02, 2010
At SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston has this report on today's oral argument in McDonald v. City of Chicago. The gist of Denniston's story is that incorporation of the Second Amendment via the privileges and immunities clasue of the 14th Amendment is...

Oscar Countdown: Day 5

Posted on March 02, 2010
Today's question, courtesy of Colin Miller: What two actresses have been nominated for an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year in the same role? Pictured: The Blind Side, up for Best Picture this year. Sandra Bullock is a...

Thomas Bost Named Interim Dean At Pepperdine Law

Posted on March 02, 2010
By now, everyone knows that Ken Starr is hitting the road, headed to Waco, Texas this summer. Pepperdine University has now named Professor Thomas Bost as interim dean, serving until a permanent dean is selected. Bost has a somewhat unusual...

Baby Markets Is Here!

Posted on March 02, 2010
Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families, edited by Michele Bratcher Goodwin (University of Minnesota), is available from Cambridge University Press. Contributors include: Michele Goodwin, Martha Ertman, Kimberly Krawiec, Mary Anne Case, Sara Dorow, Ruth Arlene-Howe, Elizabeth...

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