Month: March 2012

Here is a video of Charmaine Fuller-Cooper speaking to the UNC Center for Civil Rights about the movement for compensation for North Carolina sterilization victims.  I'm excited to have the sense that…

Earlier today, I had some down time while my two year old Bella was sleeping and my eight and eleven year old boys were almost tired after we finished spending…

Following up on the guest post from earlier in the week, here's another guest post from Saul Cornell. (Readers who are interested in more on this topic may enjoy Saul's article…

I've been observing some university (undergrad and grad level) creative writing classes lately, and I was asked to compare academic legal writing workshops with creative writing workshops in terms of…

Sally Greene has just passed along this fabulous news, that Tomiko Brown-Nagin's Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement has just won the Bancroft Prize.…

    After two recent phone conversations with perhaps two of my closest friends in the academy, I found myself in the somewhat odd place of trying to  cheer up…

This just in: The University of Mississippi is seeking applicants for a one-year visit during the 2012-13 academic year. Our primary curricular need is a full-year contracts course. Other subjects…

Brian Sawers of the University of Maryland's Francis King Carey School of Law is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Brian has previously taught at…

This morning's mail brought a very exciting volume, the September 2011 issue of the UC Irvine Law Review, which has a lengthy symposium on "Law As ..." Theory and Method…

Close readers of the Faculty Lounge may recall seeing a post by me about Saul Cornell's recent article in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities on originalism.  Now…