Month: May 2012

My friend and former colleague Derek W. Black is moving from Howard to the University of South Carolina School of Law.  Close readers of the faculty lounge may recall that…

Andrew W. Kahrl's The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South (Harvard University Press, 2012) has just arrived in my mail box.  This is a really terrific…

I want to call your attention to Mike Cassidy's article, "Beyond Practical Skills: Nine Steps for Improving Legal Education Now," whic is forthcoming this fall in the Boston College Law…

My friend and colleauge Mark Dorosin is on the ballot tomorrow for Orange County Commissioner.  If you live in Orange County, I hope you'll vote for him.  In case you'd…

I've had several conversations with folks at conferences lately about when and how to plan a lateral move, and this is assuming, of course, that there is much lateral hiring…

As part of the book launch of Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2012), edited by Justin Levinson (University of Hawaii law) and Robert Smith (UNC law), the Charles Hamilton Houston Center…

Now that Bob Morse at U.S. News is inviting discussion of how one might operationalize diversity as part of the U.S. News law school rankings I want to return to…

Erza Rosser has a very exciting article, "The Ambition and Transformative Potential of Progressive Property," up on ssrn.  It is forthcoming next year in the California Law Review.  His abstract…

The University of Massachusetts School of Law - Dartmouth (formerly the Southern New England School of Law) has been recommended for provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association Committee on…

I have recently learned that Jason Mazzone -- the Gerald Baylin professor at Brooklyn Law School (and blogger at Balkinization -- and perhaps most importantly reigning champion of trivia here…