Month: May 2012

Long time readers of the faculty lounge may recall that one of my interests is the law of monuments -- the placement and removal of monuments (of which building names…

It's my pleasure to welcome Brando Simeo Starkey to the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Brando is a visiting assistant professor at Villanova.  He was previously…

My friend, and former South Texas colleague, Dru Stevenson (pictured) has a thoughtful post on the push in legal education to incorporate more lawyering skills into the curriculum.  The post…

It's my great pleasure to announce that Caprice Roberts of the University of West Virginia faculty is moving to Savannah Law School, which is a branch of Atlanta's John Marshall.…

For anyone who hasn't seen or heard about it, this week's Time magazine cover depicts a young mother breastfeeding her three year old son.  One story, including copy of the…

An English teacher just drew my attention to a recent study which demonstrates what many of us have probably suspected about ways in which identifying with a fictional character can…

Ever since JP Morgan’s announcement of a $2 billion loss on Thursday from what might or might not be a hedging transaction, advocates for financial reform have used the news…

Here's the list as of today.  If there are any more updates, let me know (liptonj@duq.edu).

Following up on my recent posts on the Salt Salary survey for tenured professors and for untenured professors at each of four tiers of school, I want to look further…

Close readers of faculty lounge may have intuited that I am returning to writing about reparations after about a half dozen years away; and in many ways I feel like…