Month: May 2012

News accounts of the hearing on the first-day motions in the Dewey & LeBoeuf bankruptcy reported that the secured lenders whose cash collateral the liquidating debtor-in-possess must use to wind…

My friend Jill Fraley, a property professor and legal historian at Washington and Lee University, has just circulated a call for papers for a conference this fall on "Climate Change…

Justice Scalia writing for eight member of the Court (notice of Justice Kennedy’s recusal came the morning of oral arguments) went out of his way to deny that past practice…

I'm pleased to welcome into the Lounge my friend, and Regent law professor, Scott Pryor (pictured).  Scott teaches and writes in the UCC/commercial/bankruptcy area.  He has been at Regent since…

Well, given my interests in cemeteries and memory, Memorial Day is one of my big holidays.  And so digging deep in the stock of photographs, I thought that I'd post…

Here is a link to the Federalist Society's podcast of a discussion by Scott Gerber and James Pfander about Gerber's new book, A Distinct Judicial Power: The Origins of an Independent Judiciary, 1606-1787.…

My colleague Bill Turnier just sent along Stephen Carter's defense of "the faculty lounge" (though not this faculty lounge!), which appeared on Bloomberg.com.  Here area  couple of excerpts: To believe in…

A couple of years ago, the folks at The Big Bang Theory brought us the famous twist on the old schoolyard game "Rock, Paper, Scissors" by giving us their new…

Much has been said about the trend in law school applications.  I now have strong evidence that applications may be few and far between, around the year 2030. I attended…

Want a handy updated summary of the year's dean search action?  It's here.  I've included a couple of incipient dean searches as well for those starting to think about next…