Month: April 2011

And just a reminder that the updated list of visiting faculty is available here.  Please keep sending me any news on faculty visitors for next year and I'll make sure…

As Dan mentioned in a previous post, our friends at Prawfsblawg are soliciting info on entry-level hires.   Here are a few stats on the information reported at Prawfsblawg through…

Justice Prosser David Prosser, of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, is up for reelection.  But according to the NYT, the race has turned into a referendum on Governor Scott Walker and…

The ABA Journal reported, last week, that a Colorado defense lawyer is seeking documents relating to the Arapahoe County DA's policy of giving line prosecutors with high conviction rates bonuses. …

I've updated my list of law school faculty on the move.  It's here.  As always, I'd love to receive any new information - please email me at thefacultylounge@gmail.com. 

I'd kind of lost track of this piece of faculty news, but it still seems worth reporting. Sean Seymore, who recently moved to Vanderbilt Law from W&L, has received a…

A couple of weeks ago, the Wisconsin Republican party requested the emails of University of Wisconsin history professor William Cronon.  The demand was issued pursuant to the state's open record…

Well, last week I went to dinner with the students who won my package for the public interest auction. Some of my better healed colleagues offer packages like a weekend…

Been meaning to post some photographs of libraries that I love and that I've used.  And I'll get to that one of these days, but I thought that I'd start…

I blogged a few times last year (here and here) about a great symposium on corporate board diversity co-sponsored last year by Duke and UNC law schools and Duke Energy. …