Month: June 2011

Mark Brandon reminded me when I was talking with him about building renaming last summer that the new courthouse in Birmingham is named after a former Klansman.... Hugo Black.  For…

The heirs of Jacky Kirby -- an artist behind figures such as Captain America, the Fantastic Four and X-Men -- are entangled in a legal dispute with Marvel Comics, as…

Regular Lounge readers know that the Greece crisis has been a frequent topic for us – those posts are collected here.  The news of the moment, however, relates to Greek…

The New York Times is reporting that the Casey Anthony trial is drawing tourists to Orlando this summer.  That makes me think of Sally Hadden and Patricia Minter's article in…

Duquesne Law School, in Pittsburgh,  has an opening for a Visiting Professor this coming academic year (2011-2012) to teach Torts (as a two-semester course) as well as an elective of…

OK - so I realize I absolutely must spend less time on Amazon and less time trying to find more time to read more books.  But I did find something…

Like Bridget, I’ve been at the AALS Women Rethinking Equality conference this week and quite enjoyed this event.  Planning committee chair, Kathy Abrams, and the rest of the planning committee…

Recently, I blogged about the differences between browsing for book selections in bricks and mortar stores versus online.  There's another difference I've noticed about selecting books digitally versus in stores…

The second day of the AALS workshop on "Women Rethinking Equality" featured luncheon addresses by legal historians Kenneth Mack (Harvard) and Tomiko Brown-Nagin (UVa).  The theme was "Race, Sexuality, Identity…

The announcement  is here.  Given the state of the legal economy, and in the midst of law school downsizing - four schools have already decided to shrink their entering classes -…