Month: March 2012

My friend Pippa Holloway of Middle Tennessee State University's history department has posted  "Race and Partisanship in Criminal Disfranchisement Laws: Antecedents of the 2000 Election Controversy in Florida" on ssrn.  It…

Posted on behalf of Associate Dean Holley-Walker at University of South Carolina: ==================== The University of South Carolina School of Law is seeking a visitor in Environmental Law for the…

In this previous post, we mentioned that our friends at Touro are hosting the 2012 conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools.  This year's theme is "The Place of Religion in…

James Q. Wilson, the noted political scientist who co-authored the Atlantic Monthly article, Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety and many other works (including Moral Judgment: Does the Abuse Excuse…

I want to take a few moments to welcome Ediberto Román to the Faculty Lounge for some guest blogging.  Ediberto is a founding faculty member at Florida International University College…

The American Bar Association has just issued its assessment of the death penalty in Missouri.  You can find the various parts of the report here.   The assessment team was…

My friend and former South Texas colleague, Adam Gershowitz (pictured), who currently teaches at the University of Houston Law Center, has accepted a tenured position at William & Mary.  Adam…

Anthony W. Crowell, Counselor to New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library, has been named the Dean and…

Law professors like to harp on the importance of professionalism.  They also emphasize the dangers of social media and email.  Unfortunately, Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull of the District…

Shall we being March with a trivia question? When I first saw the monument at left a few years back I wondered what it was doing in the middle of ...