Month: June 2012

Even with all the usual caveats about such studies, it remains troubling that a new Urban Institute study shows between 8 and 15 percent of those convicted of serious sexual…

AALS Section on Transactional Law and Skills Call for Papers January 2013 Annual Meeting             The AALS Section on Transactional Law and Skills will meet during the AALS Annual Meeting in…

This has been the year of Edgar Allan Poe for me -- I had the pleasure of seeing his dorm room at UVA last April and now I want to…

Close readers of the faculty lounge may recall that I love the opening of Anthony F.C. Wallace's Rockdale.  The book, published in 1972, is a great example of blending social…

Check out the set of very funny drawings over at the Paris Review (here) by Jessie Gaynor. Here's a sample: Next up...mock drunken texts by law prof bloggers? Anyone?  

Here is my Huff Post essay, which I suspect might pester more than a few, concerning the President's policy shift on immigration: DREAMs, Dreams Deferred, and Potential Nightmares: As the…

Mark Kington, Vice-Rector of the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors, has resigned.  His letter is here.  Kington is a Darden Business School graduate and co-founded Columbia Capital with Mark…

We now know that the members of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors don't like incremental change.  They wanted dramatic change and they got...drama.  Apparently, after pondering the matter,…

Further to Dan Filler's post and Bob Strassfeld's comments on President Sullivan's resignation, below  is the text of a letter that UVA Law School Dean Paul Mahoney and a great number of…

What judge (and law professor) lived in the house at right?  His son, also a law professor (who also served as a judge for a very short period of time),…