Month: April 2010

From our friends at intrade, the latest predictions from those who put their money where their mouths (or heads? or hearts?) are.  So far General Kagan is running ahead, followed…

I love books.  I love buying them, holding them, looking at them, reading about them, and reading them.  Yes, I love books.Call me old-fashioned, but I have no interest in…

Over the weekend I joined several former and current law clerks to celebrate 25 years of distinguished judicial service by Edith H. Jones, currently the Chief Judge of the Fifth…

Whenever a President selects a new Supreme Court Justice, the media immediately turns to the checkoff boxes the Prez must consider: ideology, age, gender, race.  Sheralynn Ifill put togetherher own list…

Update 3/15/2011: Believe it or not, the 2012 rankings are out.  More here. Yup.  Like the Grateful Dead shows of yore, the annual US News law school ranking bootlegs have…

Many (many!) thanks to readers of this blog.  I just wish my investment strategies yielded annual returns as impressive as these for The Faculty Lounge.

Last weekend the ABA hosted the final rounds of its 2009-10 National Appellate Advocacy Competition (which began with 196 teams).  Kudos to South Texas College of Law, which successfully defended…

In an effort to curb online bullying and online predators, a British child protection agency is apparently working to convince Facebook to institute a virtual "panic button" that would allow…

So Oprah wants to have Jesus over for a meal.  Story here.I, too, would have Jesus at the top of my list of dream guests for a meal (I don't…

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in Donovan v. Idant Laboratories that genetic defects in sperm from a sperm bank cannot form the basis for a products…