We may be in the midst of a Democratic Presidency, but there's big news in the Republican Supreme Court Nominee Dugout. David Stras has just been named an Associate Justice…
Loungers with an interest in the Supreme Court's forthcoming opinion in Skilling v. United States and the constitutional challenge to the federal "honest services" fraud statute may wish to read…
Friend Ryan Vacca passes along the sad news that Jim Devine (pictured), the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and David Ross Hardy Professor of Law and Trial Practice at the…
It's my pleasure to introduce John Inazu as a guest to the lounge. John has been a senior lecturing fellow at Duke for a couple of years and will be a…
Walter Huffman is stepping down as law dean at Texas Tech. Arnold Loewy, his colleague (and a member of the search committee), recently penned a nice tribute "to a great…
Wake Forest Law School is seeking a visitor to teach criminal procedure in the fall of 2010. They are open to either a one-semester visit or a one or two…
Today, a committee of the Louisiana Senate will hold hearings on a bill designed to undermine the power of law school clinics. The proposal would prohibit all law school clinics…