Month: December 2011

And speaking of our friend Kelly Anders and her Oscar Trivia prowess (and congrats on the book, Kelly!) it would be wrong of me to let the new year creep…

Of all the places I visited this past year, I think my favorite was Gettysburg.  There's a lot of competition for this, including some of my favorite places -- like…

Via Henry at Crooked Timber comes news of a recent article in Science (pay wall, full copy here), Saudi Universities Offer Cash in Exchange for Academic Prestige: At first glance,…

Creighton law prof Kelly Anders (pictured) has been a Lounge visitor on multiple occasions, including stints as one of our "Oscar trivia experts" in recent years.  Next month, Carolina Academic…

Let's see -- a story about how law treats the memory of race, especially how law regulates (and tries to prohibit) the teaching of a certain history of race.   ...

Today’s WSJ asks the question: why do so few women sit on US corporate boards?  According to Catalyst, women now hold about 16% of Fortune 500 board seats, as illustrated…

Over at the Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog, Danny Sokol has had a couple of interesting posts about the importance of European, Canadian, and Australian law journals to US scholarship. …

Here at the faculty lounge we periodically talk about recent books; one of my new year's resolutions is to be a regular poster about new books.  I thought that I'd…

On the way home to Philadelphia I stopped by in Lexington to do some more research on pre-Civil War ideas about law and constitutionalism at Washington College (and here).  The archives…

While his day job may be acting as dean of Rutgers-Newark School of Law, in his spare time John Farmer serves as the tie-breaker on New Jersey's bipartisan redistricting committee.  This past…