Month: September 2009

Oxford University Press has just released The War on Terror and the Laws of War.  From the introduction:This book is about commitment, commitment to a tenet that has animated the…

For those of you on the criminal law side of academia, I've got two quick news items. 1.    Chris Slobogin at Vanderbilt has started up a Criminal Justice Program.  In this…

Lipshaw on Leiter on Religion (Legal Profession Blog) National Law Journal: The EEOC has announced a record $6.2 million ADA settlement of a nationwide class action against Sears over the…

So Dancing With the Stars is actually one reality show (reality?  I use the term loosely) that I actually don't watch, but the Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a funny story…

Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati,  Mirya R. Holman, and Eric A. Posner have a new article up on ssrn, "Judging Women."  Here's their abstract: Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s assertion that female judges…

In honor of the High Holidays, the friendly folks from Westboro Baptist Church, in Topeka, Kansas, got up off their tucheses and came to Oklahoma University for a Rosh Hashanah…

It's Tuesday morning and we've got news!  We're very pleased to announce that Eric Muller is joining the Faculty Lounge as a new permanent member of the team.  Many of…

According to CNN, the U.S. Secret Service asked Facebook to suspend the use of an application that allows users to create online polls when someone created a poll asking whether…

The New York Times has an article on a new agreement between Daily Beast and Peasus Books, to create a new imprint, "Beast Books."  The idea is to have Daily…

I’ve blogged a few times in the last couple of weeks about sperm and embryo mix-ups, as well as egg misappropriation.  Two more cases were in the news this past…