Scott Turow’s INNOCENT

Fans of Scott Turow may wish to tune into tonight's television adaptation of his 2010 bestseller INNOCENT (earlier post here).  Bill Pullman portrays Rusty Sabich, a role made famous by…
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Three Hundred Ramayanas?

It's been a tough couple of months for university presses.  First there was the revival of the controversy over Yale University Press' The King Never Smiles.  The translator (who was living…
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Cemetery Trivia

Faculty lounge readers have had a very successful run over the past year or so with  trivia -- you all picked off trivia on a lawyer's house, Judges' houses, Freedom Riders, an antebellum…
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On Appointments

The faculty appointments meeting.  Sheer perfection. A sample: The bottom line is that [candidate] Mary Prescott reminds me of me.  And so she will contribute to the law school in…
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The Psychology (or Law) of Me?

This is an article of some interest to me (ha, ha): how much we should allow our research agendas to be driven by our own interests or identity.  The author…
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LSU Seeks Energy Chair

Over at the Legal Scholarship Network, the LSU Law Center has posted an announcement seeking applications/nominations of candidates interested in becoming the inaugural holder of the Nesser Family Chair in…
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