Month: February 2011

This may seem like an odd post for Valentine's Day -- it's not the  love story that stretches across decades and the veil of death that I blogged about last…

From Lance McMillian: True Grit breakout star Hailee Steinfeld is nominated this year for Best Supporting Actress.  In reality, Steinfeld almost certainly belongs in the Best Actress category, but the…

Here's my list, in rank order, of professors with number of law review publications during the period 2005-2009  listed in parenthesis after school affiliation (US News ranked programs only).  Methodology ...

Regular Lounge readers have heard me discuss before my seminar on Taboo Trades and Forbidden Markets.  Although markets in human organs, sex work, commercial surrogacy, and the like are probably…

As we're obviously mid-dean-season at the moment judging by the amount of announcements that are being made, I was wondering if there isn't some way to make dean searches more…

From Garrett Levin:  This year, the following films are all nominated for four or more Oscars:  Black Swan (5); The Fighter (7); Inception (8); The Kids Are All Right (4);…

I'm finishing up reviewing page proofs for a new Estate & Gift Taxation casebook, co-authored with the excellent Wendy Gerzog (Baltimore) and Joseph Dodge (FSU), to be published by Aspen…

This spring is the semester of slavery conferences, for sure.  Though I have hardly had a chance to digest or write about Emory's conference on slavery and universities last weekend,…

So here's today's Oscar trivia question... Which of this year's nominated documentaries features a person who recently settled litigation loosely connected with a presidential election?  

Well,  it's spring, the time of year when young professors' hearts turns to ... law review submissions. And once again Allen Rostron and Nancy Levit have come to the rescue.  They…