Month: September 2010

Well, it's a Saturday morning and I've been spending a lot of time reading scholarship of AALS candidates -- always fun and exciting and inspiring ...  but also intense and…

This week's question comes from Lounge friend, and baseball fan,  John Steele.  John's question:This Hall of Fame slugger once led the majors in batting average and had the requisite number…

Score a victory for the death penalty.  Tonight, Virginia executed 41 year old Teresa Lewis, a woman with an IQ of 72.  Her confederates - the two men who pulled…

At least not yet.  How often do you learn that you're a fool to buy a particular product right now because the price is about to plunge? I don't have…

Like law deans (see Dan's list here), associate deans come and go.  In selecting an associate dean, a dean may seek faculty-wide input.  Alternatively, the dean may make the appointment…

Long-time readers of the faculty lounge may recall that I'm interested in how we can use (if at all) citations to a school school's main law review (or secondary law…

In light of the recent corrections to Gregory Sisk et al.'s "Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties: Extending the Leiter Rankings to the Top 70," I've gone back and correlated their important…

How can you fail to love the fabulous structures folks have designed for Sukkah City 2010?  I'm all ready for Outdoor Dining Week - bring on the 90 degree temperatures!…

Following up on a couple of posts last week on Gregory Sisk et al.'s  "Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties: Extending the Leiter Rankings to the Top 70", I want to look…

 Well, I mentioned a while back how excited I am about the fall press catalogs.  The books are starting to roll off the presses and I thought I'd mention two…