Month: December 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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

 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…

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…

 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.…

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…

... 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…