Month: April 2010

In light of the recent privacy debacle involving the Plain Dealer and Judge Saffold (see previous post), a number of news media outlets are reconsidering their policies relating to the…

Based on information received so far (or found elsewhere), here's the list of law professors who will be visiting during the upcoming 2010-11 academic year.   The list is organized…

The University of Alabama is seeking a visitor to teach Civil Procedure in the Fall of 2010.  They are very cognizant of the AALS deadlines, but would be interested in…

As regular Lounge readers know, Greece has been a popular topic here of late (see links below) and with good reason: according to nearly all sources, action is near --…

As America struggles to stay competitive in the increasingly globalized workplace, we often read about how our children spend too little time in class.  For example, (according to one source)…

A few weeks ago, Aaron D. Levine (Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology) visited my Taboo Trades and Forbidden Markets seminar in advance of the release of his Hastings Center…

With thanks to my colleague, Richard Gordon, for passing this along, today's Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story about business schools outsourcing grading of papers to online services based…

In a developing story in Cleveland this week, Cuyahoga County Court Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold has sued the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper and others for unmasking her or her daughter…

The Lounge wishes to compile a list of law professors who will be visiting elsewhere during all or part of the 2010-11 academic year.  Last year's report included over 120…

In recent days Ron Kaplan, writing for Bookreporter.com, offered a summary of several new baseball books.  Here's the link.  Baseball fans also may wish to bookmark Kaplan's website, Ron Kaplan's…