Month: June 2010

As a follow-up to Dan's recent post on the appointment of Fordham law dean William Treanor to the top spot at Georgetown's law school, Fordham has named Michael Martin as its interim…

 AALS Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Protection  Beyond Financial Reform:  Mapping Regulatory Objectives, Institutional Forms, and Accountability in the Post-Crisis Landscape  Friday, January 7, 4-5:45 pm  2011 AALS…

Dan has previously posted on the University of North Texas and its plans to open a law school in the Dallas area (see here and here).  This recent news story…

Congrats (?) to Seattle resident Molly Ringle, named earlier this week as the 2010 grand prize winner in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.Her entry?For the first month of Ricardo and…

Georgetown Law Center has announced the appointment of William Treanor as its new dean.  Treanor joined the Fordham faculty in 1991 and became dean in 2002.  In addition to being…

I knew that the Eurozone wouldn’t head into July without providing more drama.  From, Fresh fears over European bank sector (FT): Fears rose over the health of the European banking…

Kudos to our friends at the University of St. Thomas School of Law (MN).  Earlier this month the law school's Community Justice Project, partnering with a local chapter of the…

Many of us have been so focused on trying to make sense of the financial reform bill that we’ve barely noticed all the recent activity at the Supreme Court relevant…

We're very pleased to welcome Professor David S. Cohen to the Lounge. David is on the faculty at Drexel Law and writes in the fields of constitutional law and gender and…

The Jérôme Kerviel three-week trial ended in Paris on Friday, and that means that this post is my last in this series.  Kerviel will have to wait until October 5,…