Month: October 2010

Harvard law professor Noah Feldman has written a new book entitled Scorpions:  The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices.   Here's a description of the book (which focuses…

Case Western Reserve University has just announced the launch of a law school dean search.  Relevant information, including composition of the search committee, is available here. 

Jérôme Kerviel, the former Société Générale trader who lost EUR 4.9 billion in unauthorized trading in 2008 was sentenced to three years in prison today and ordered to repay the…

We're very pleased to welcome Michael Lewyn to the Lounge.  Mike is an associate professor at Florida Coastal Law School with a particular interest in land use and urban sprawl. …

 Well, I'm back from a terrific conference in Raleigh, the 95th annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.  It's the first time I've…

 Across the country, law professors and students are engaged in a tug-of-war over use of the laptops in class.  Many faculty feel that they're disruptive - both for individual users…

I've been recently following the case of the Rutgers student who committed suicide last week after videos showing him engaging in a homosexual encounter were posted on the Internet by…

Last week we mentioned that Ichiro Suzuki and Albert Pujols have the highest career batting averages of all current players (who meet certain requirements).  A few days ago, Ichiro became…

From an email that I received earlier today:Elon University School of Law invites applications for tenure-track or visiting faculty positions for appointments to begin in August 2011.  Our principal needs…