Month: June 2009

News is exploding out of Champaign-Urbana in the last day or so as a series of admissions-related emails were just released by the University of Illinois.  The state's rough and…

Publisher Penguin Press is releasing a new book on the United States Supreme Court this month titled Packing the Court:  The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of…

This morning the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in the so-called strip search case, Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding, finding that the search violated the student's…

So I've just finished reading "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell.  Here's a puzzle from page 159 for readers' amusement..."Suppose I give you four cards labeled with the letters A ...

Forget Bernie Madoff.  Meet James Amburn, 56, a financial advisor who runs the investment firm Digitalglobalnet, who was kidnapped, beaten, and tortured by four middle-aged investors after Mr. Amburn lost…

The Fourth Circuit issued its en banc opinion earlier today in the case of Richmond Medical Center for Women v. Herring.  Readers can find the opinion here, with a nice…

A few days ago, I argued that, even assuming that the costs of the tenure system outweighed any benefits, law schools would derive few benefits from abolishing tenure. Most schools…

We're very pleased to welcome Dean Eric Chiapinelli, from Creighton University School of Law, as a guest blogger here at the Faculty Lounge.  Eric received his BA from Claremont McKenna…

Paul Caron recently noted that faculty salaries from Illinois state universities - including the law schools at Illinois, Southern Illinois, and Northern Illinois - are here.  I've now added this…

Dallas is getting a new law school.  After much waiting and watching,  Texas Governor Rick Perry signed new legislation authorizing and funding the creation of a new law school at…