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Holiday Movie List ....

Posted on December 10, 2009
Because I no longer seem to have time to read books anymore, I've decided to make a sad attempt to at least see a few holiday movies. I notice a lot of things just out or coming out in the...

Judge Robert Henry to Oklahoma City University Presidency

Posted on December 10, 2009
Chief Judge Robert Henry of the 10th Circuit will become Oklahoma City University's 17th president next July when OCU's president Tom McDaniel steps down. OCU is very, very lucky to have Judge Henry, who's served on the 10th Circuit since...

Con Law profs, take note.

Posted on December 09, 2009
This interesting story about new findings from UNC researchers of genetic racial differences in glucose processing seems to invite (among many other things) use in an exam question.

Orrin Hatch Releases Chanukah Song

Posted on December 09, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Senator Orrin Hatch, the senior senator from Utah (to use the Adam Sandler parlance, "Not a Jew"), has just released his first Chanukah song. The New York Times has full coverage here. This is my...

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A Public Service Announcement

Posted on December 09, 2009
Cancer is a leading cause of death, and colon cancer is one of its more fatal forms. Many physicians recommend that a patient undergo a colonoscopy at the age of 50 (and periodically thereafter) as an "early warning" test for...

My Law School Is Better Than You Think Publications?Vote For Us Please!

Posted on December 08, 2009
The U.S. News surveys have been filled out and sent in. And now my mail box seems empty. After a fall of receiving an extraordinary number of publications from other law schools, mailings have declined to a trickle. So it...

Clarence Thomas "Welcomes" Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court

Posted on December 08, 2009
The Rehnquist Court tradition was to give a new Justice a unanimous opinion for his or her first assignment. The media is reporting that that's what happened today with Mohawk Industries v. Carpenter. The media are reporting that the tradition...

Supreme Court to Decide Student Religious Association Case

Posted on December 07, 2009
The Supreme Court has granted the petition for certiorari in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (08-1371). The case presents an interesting confluence of issues: expressive association rights, public forum doctrine, and the scope of anti-discrimination regulations when they conflict with...

Randolph Macon College After (and Before) the Civil War

Posted on December 07, 2009
Driving back from the AALS, I stopped for gas in Ashland and thought I'd go by and check out Randolph Macon College. One of RMC's antebellum presidents, William A. Smith, looms large in University, Court, and Slave. One indication of...

What (If Anything) Do We Owe Future Generations?

Posted on December 06, 2009
As I'm beginning to emerge from (or at least can see the possibility of emerging from) a semester of lots and lots of teaching and service, I'm starting to accumulate a list of things I want and need to read....

Nominations Are Not a Meritocracy ... But They Should Be Transparent.

Posted on December 05, 2009
This story out of Wyoming should remind us that nondisclosure is the really significant issue in Senator Max Baucus's nomination of his girlfriend to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana. In Wyoming, the very (and very justly) popular...

Harvard Faculty Retirement Packages

Posted on December 05, 2009
The Harvard Crimson has news of recently unveiled retirement packages for faculty who agree to retire. Of much interest to me is the report that 24% of Harvard faculty in arts and sciences are 65 or older; the average age...

In need of an outstanding copy editor?

Posted on December 05, 2009
I highly recommend Sonia Fulop. She did a great job with Transformations in America Legal History. All of this talk of copy editing reminds me of what seems to be an emerging trend -- faculty hiring copy-editors to process work...

Buy Your Own Species

Posted on December 05, 2009
Or at least the naming rights. Via Wired Science: Retired NBA player Luc Longley, who won three straight championships with former Tarheel Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, recently bestowed the name Lebbeus clarehanna (after his 15-year-old daughter, Clare Hanna...

When Hell Freezes Over

Posted on December 04, 2009
Not sure if hell will freeze over today. But Houston is expected to break a record for its earliest recorded snowfall, with flurries by noon and perhaps two inches of accumulation. Story here. I can hear my father in Rochester,...

Ole Miss Law Dean Samuel Davis Stepping Down

Posted on December 04, 2009
Dean Samuel M. Davis, who has been leading the University of Mississippi School of Law for an impressive 12 years, will be stepping down this summer. His letter to Ole Miss students is here. Davis, an expert in juvenile law...

Deval Patrick Formally Endorses Southern New England - UMass Merger

Posted on December 03, 2009
The news is here. Seems like we learn something new each time an article comes out. Now they're saying that the UMasss - Dartmouth Law tuition will be $23K, the cost per student will be $31K, and the difference will...

Gate-Crashers at the White House: What Gives?

Posted on December 03, 2009
I keep seeing all these news stories, including some hilarious coverage on Jon Stewart about the gate crashers at the White House last week. But it got me to thinking: What is it that we are specifically upset about? Obviously...

Matt Lauer and Celebrity "Outing"

Posted on December 03, 2009
So while enjoying the guilty pleasure of watching the Today show at a hotel room yesterday morning, I - along with the rest of the world - heard the public declaration from favorite Family Ties mom, Meredith Baxter, that she...

Off To Haifa

Posted on December 03, 2009
I?m off to the University of Haifa for the rest of the month for some teaching, conferencing, socializing, and sightseeing. My blogging may be sporadic for a while, particularly the regular ?links? posts. But I?m sure that my first trip...

UMass Finance Committee Approves SNESL Acquisition

Posted on December 03, 2009
The UMass administration and finance committee voted 12-4, yesterday, to approve the acquisition of Southern New England Law School by UMass - Dartmouth. The story is here. As more details surface, the whole project becomes more curious. For example, we...

Georgetown Law To Lose Dean Aleinikoff

Posted on December 03, 2009
Good news for the U.N. means bad news - or at minimum, extra work - for the faculty of Georgetown Law Center. Dean Alex Aleinikoff has been plucked from the academy to serve as the new High Inquisitor of Hogwarts...

Harvard Law School Cuts Public Interest Support

Posted on December 02, 2009
The economy strikes again. Harvard Law School has announced that it will be cutting back support for students doing public interest work. The cuts are in two areas. First, the school is reducing its summer public interest grants from ten...

Is This The Big Time? Or Just A Chance To Pander For Votes?

Posted on December 02, 2009
We've just learned that the ABA Journal has selected The Faculty Lounge as one of its Blawg 100 - their list of the top 100 websites by lawyers for lawyers. Who wouldn't want to join a club that has Leiter,...

About those Antebellum Bookcases

Posted on December 02, 2009
Earlier this fall I blogged some about a marvelous bookcase (another view of its right upright is to the right) in the Thomas Cobb house over in Athens. What really interests me about that bookcase is the speculation of what...

Amen.

Posted on December 01, 2009
Ann Althouse: I lost my patience with unnecessarily complicated writing a long time ago. Life is too short to give parts of it away to careerists who are bolstering their résumés and reputations with scholarly writing that takes extra time...

The Latest on Walker Evans and James Agee

Posted on December 01, 2009
... from our friends at the Tuscaloosa News, who're focusing on a controversy over Walker Evans' photographs, which appeared in Evans' and Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Here's a taste of Ben Windham's terrific article: Evans? and Agee?s...

Defamatory Tweeting

Posted on November 30, 2009
I was asked for comment today about defamation and Twitter and, in particular, whether the laws of defamation should apply differently in this new medium. Over the last year or so, there have been a number of cases involving defamation...

UMass Dartmouth SNESL Merger: Questions that a Board Ought to Ask

Posted on November 30, 2009
Recently, Dan Filler reported on the continuing efforts of UMass Dartmouth to acquire the Southern New England School of Law (SNESL). Dan properly suggested that from an academic quality perspective if the UMass system wants a law school it would...

100 Notable Books -- 2009

Posted on November 30, 2009
The New York Times has released its list 0f "100 Notable Books of 2009." Can't say I recognize very many (probably fewer than ten). Each December / January when a compilation like this comes out, I say to myself "maybe...

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