Month: October 2010

R.B. Bernstein emailed the news this morning that the distinguished historian of early America Rhys Isaac has passed away following a long battle with cancer.  Isaac is best known for…

Last week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously decided to uphold its current rules allowing Wisconsin and Marquette law graduates to join the bar without taking an exam.  The Court considered…

My colleague, and Vanderbilt law alum, Matt Festa passes along the sad news that Vanderbilt law professor Richard Nagareda has died.  Professor Nagareda was an expert in mass tort litigation…

Just because.

As I sit here with my reading assignments for the weekend (scholarship for the AALS conference -- inspiring, as always) and an eye on ESPN's game day, I think I…

Albert Pujols won the RBI crown in the National League this year (edging Carlos Gonzalez, of the Colorado Rockies, by the slimmest of margins, 118-117).   By capturing the RBI…

From an email that I received yesterday: The University of Memphis School of Law is looking for a visitor for Spring 2011 to teach a course in Commercial Paper and…

Or should  I say, "Really!"  Probably the former.  Questions are making a comeback.

I receive emails now and then from the folks at Barnes & Noble.This week I was informed that B&N is launching an electronic publication platform.  I'm not a techno-whiz, but…

The following is a guest post from Deana Pollard Sacks of Texas Southern, who's visiting at Florida State right now.  Close readers of the faculty lounge may recall that I've ...