Month: March 2010

Thanks to the Salt Lake City Tribune, we learn that a website - mormonlawyers.com - has created a top 10 list for (as they put it) "Mr./Mrs. Mormon Pre-Law Student".…

Junior law professors in the Philadelphia area are gathering for a meet-and-greet on May 7 at Villanova.  Speaking as a not-so-junior professor, rather than an associate dean of faculty, it…

Many readers probably have a Netflix subscription (which no doubt has increased our usage of the word "queue").   So here's a trivia quiz on this popular service:1) The number of…

 The Governator is proposing to assign the provision of California state prison medical services to the University of California.  This is designed to cut costs, increase the use of telemedicine,…

Public university funding is turning ugly.  We've all followed the harsh cutbacks in the California university system.  Now Rutgers, and other New Jersey colleges, are going to take their lumps.…

What's a week in the Lounge without at least one post devoted to everyone's favorite topic:   the UCC  faculty hiring!This post solicits input from candidates who went on the market…

Alex Chilton, an amazingly talented and hugely important early rocker who was in both The Box Tops and Big Star, died yesterday.   From the NY Times report: Mr. Chilton,…

As we slog through another law review article submission season - with authorial anxiety now painfully in view - I started wondering how Stanford's partial peer review process was coming…

In my prior two Vancouver posts, I discussed some of the folks I met in Vancouver, as well as some pending board diversity legislation in Canada.  Today, in my last…

Most of us appreciate the opportunity to discuss ethical issues in our doctrinal courses.   With that thought in mind, those who teach first-year contracts (or courses with a drafting component)…