Month: September 2010

Updated 9/30/10 and moved to the top It's that time again: the annual compilation of law school faculty movement.   As always, I am indebted to the other bloggers who publish this information ...

This from the folks at the University of Iowa: CALL FOR PAPERS:  For a proposed symposium  to mark the 25th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s landmark opinion in…

Mary Sarah Bilder of Boston College has a new essay up on ssrn, "Expounding the Law," which responds to Philip Hamburger's monumental study, Law and Judicial Duty.  Here is Bilder's…

 For those who can't get enough of reality (and I use the term loosely) TV, here's a story about the Aussie version of Top Model where the name of the…

Jewish students at the University of Texas are organizing a petition drive.  Their goal: to move next year's class Texas - Oklahoma matchup off of Yom Kippur.  The petition reads:…

So far as I can recall, we've never had an open thread here -- so I figure it's well past time to ask you all who're blurking in the lounge:…

The Supreme Court has adopted a new policy on audio recordings.   As announced today, the Court will release MP3 recordings of the week's oral arguments on the Court website each Friday. …

According to a new survey from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the people who know the most about religion - even controlling for educational level - are…

What surprises me is that anyone finds this surprising.  Why, it is wasn't so long go that Janis Joplin's song "Mercedes Benz" was used in another of their commercials --…

Over at legalhistoryblog, Mary Dudziak has the latest on Annette Gordon-Reed, who is one of the new MacArthur fellows.  The other new fellows are here.