Month: July 2011

As I noted last fall, the University of Minnesota School of Law is in for big state budget cuts in the upcoming years.  Now we learn that the university's provost…

We're very pleased to welcome two new visitors to the Lounge.  Tuan Samahon is a Professor at Villanova University School of Law.  He previously was a member of the UNLV…

Anyone been following the discussion about the dispute over the UK's request for access to the oral history archives at Boston College?  Maybe it's just that I've been out of the…

I'm on the road on a research trip now and passed by New Market, Virginia, recently on I-81.  So I thought that I'd stop and learn a little bit more…

Last week, David Getches stepped down after a successful eight year run as dean of the University of Colorado School of Law.  Yesterday, he passed away after a short battle with pancreatic…

The July 4th holiday has come and gone, which means that law school faculty candidates have fewer than thirty days to submit their FAR forms to AALS for inclusion in…

After being a finalist in several dean searches this year (and declining at least one appealing offer) Robert Schapiro has been named the new interim dean at Emory Law School. …

From Standard & Poor's Press Release regarding the French Proposal:  LONDON (Standard & Poor's) July 4, 2011: This credit comment looks at the most prominent of the recent proposals, put…

My typical July Fourth post is on something fun -- like the intellectual origins of the game of Monopoly. But because I'm working on literary addresses at Washington College and…

Goldman, Sachs, of course.  Risk has the information here. Why does this matter?  Because, as I said a year ago when Dodd-Frank was passed, the statute is long, costly, needlessly…