Month: July 2009

Steven Erickson, an Olin Fellow at Penn, has informed me (and a visit to the AALS website has confirmed) that AALS is now accepting payments of $400 for FAR form…

As many of us Loungers have remarked before, the lateral market is a strange beast with less clearly defined rules/norms than the entry level market.  So to add to the ...

It appears that the United States is not the only country in which concerns are being raised about jurors twittering on a case in progress.  My old colleague from down…

Nicholas Kristol has posted his list of the best kids books in Sunday's Times here.  But he's also opened up his blog to comments - which is to say,  1600…

The July 4th holiday is over and this is the heart of the scholarship-production season, so perhaps it's time for  a serious post. Ok--look--the news is really starting to trouble me.…

I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that a secondary market has already emerged in California IOUs.  A Craigslist search, for example, turns up a number of bidders looking to buy…

Last week, President Obama nominated Pepperdine law professor Doug Kmiec as ambassador to Malta.  The White House press release is here.  Kmiec (pictured), a well-known constitutional law scholar, is a…

From this morning's Montgomery Advertiser comes this sad story.   A development in Oxford, Alabama for a new Sam's Club is going to use earth from a Native American mound,…

Unless they involve a law school dean, of course.  But Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's diplomacy efforts in anticipation of the G8 summit to be held July 8-10 in the Italian city…

  Well, it's our nation's birthday and that means it's time for some celebration -- and some fun.  Because I'm in the midst of edits on Integrating Spaces, I'm going…