Month: April 2011

Critical Perspectives on Tax Policy Workshop Call for Papers This is a call for individual paper presentations or incubator ideas that look at tax policy from a critical perspective.  A…

I suppose that if you blog long enough, the time will come (probably repeatedly) when you have to write difficult, even painful, posts.  This, for me, is the first of…

From the University of California at Davis, via Jack Chin, comes the shocking and exceptionally sad news that Keith Aoki passed away this morning.  Keith was an exceptionally warm and…

Big news in from Baltimore.  The University of Maryland School of Law announced, yesterday, that the W.P. Carey Foundation has donated $30 million to the institution.  The school will now be…

According to Richard Neumann, of Hofstra University, that's what a law school pays a law professor to write an article.  These are his assumptions, according to a recent National Law Journal article:…

Well, we've done a pretty good job of ignoring the impending wedding here at the facutly lounge.  I hardly knew it was coming until a couple of weeks ago.  I…

We've had discussions in the Lounge before about when to decide to write a book (rather than a law review article or something else) and how to choose a book…

Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, who has been dean at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law since 2002, is stepping down as of June 30, 2012.  This will give McGeorge…

There’s been much talk already of the agreement among law reviews to leave offers open at least seven days.  But Al Roth adds to the mix the following observation: I…

For those interested in the intersection between patent law and access to medicine in the global trading arena, I would recommend Cynthia Ho's new book, Access to  Medicine in the…