Month: March 2010

Duquesne University School of Law has a new dean:  faculty member Ken Gormley.  Story here.

As Tim Zinnecker coyly suggested here, Oklahoma City lawyer Joe Harroz was named the University of Oklahoma Law Center's new dean. Harroz, a graduate of OU and Georgetown Law, served as general counsel…

Well, I'm back in lovely Chapel Hill after a few days in Williamsburg.  I went up there to attend a conference on the Lemon Project, which is William and Mary's…

  Last week’s New York Times Room For Debate column addressed the theme “Using Quotas to Raise the Glass Ceiling.”  Although some of the Room for Debate contributors discuss quotas…

Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, Houston Texas, is in need of visiting law professors to teach courses listed below: 1. Fall 2010 and Spring 2011: Commercial Law…

I bring very sad news from Chatham County, where I was for lunch this afternoon.  The Chatham County Courthouse in Pittsboro, built in 1881, caught fire last night and burned…

Story here.

David Meyer, who is currently serving as associate dean of academic affairs at the University of Illinois, will be taking over as dean at Tulane Law School this July.  Meyer,…

With the caveat, of course, that it will be as much about Alaska as Palin.  Democracy and entertainment remain closely entwined...

Jodi Kantor of The New York Times has a story on, and video interview with, Elizabeth Warren this week.  (Professor Warren has been the subject of previous Lounge posts here,…