Month: October 2011

From my summer travels, here's a picture of the grave of William H. Rowland (1847-1926) who served on the Minnesota, which was present during  the Monitor's battle with the Merrimac during ...

Sorry about the short notice here, but this evening at 11 pm eastern time, CSPAN will be rebroadcasting Tuesday's argument in Maples v. Thomas (discussed in the Washington Post here).…

In honor of the Alabama Vanderbilt football game this evening, I thought I'd put up a picture of the Nashville Parthenon, which I took on a recent trip to Nashville.

We've been rather quiet of late here, so perhaps it's time to ask what's on your mind?  Are folks focused on classes, the hiring conference, something else?

Things seem strangely quiet around the faculty lounge of late.  Because I'm buried in work I'm not able to write posts these days, but I thought that I'd put up…

I've recently started reading Erik Larson's In The Garden of Beasts, dealing with life in Germany in 1933 as Hitler was rising to power.  The book is a bit of…

As many of you already know, a leaked version of the proposed Volcker rule has been circulating.  Here is the preamble from the confidential staff draft, dated September 30, 2011,…

This is where our anxiety about drugs and school crime takes us.  The LA Times reports today that a jury has issued a million dollar judgment for a 12 year old…

We're very pleased to welcome Carissa Hessick to the Lounge.  Carissa is a Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State.  She is a…

Lots of people have been waiting for this moment.  Today, the Law and Society Association issued a call for participation for its 2012 summer meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.   Proposals are…