Month: June 2012

As I sit here working on Francis Daniel Pastorius this afternoon, I see that Patrick Erben's A New Harmony of the Spirits has just been published by UNC Press.  Cribbing now from…

I've just read an interview from The Paris Review with Gabriel Garcia Marquez in which he states that:  "I can't think of any one film that improved on a good…

Well, we're deep in the scholarship producing season, so perhaps it is time for a little trivia?  How about courthouse trivia?  We haven't done that in a while.  What's the…

I know I'm always picking on airlines, but I just had to share my favorite of the recent British Airways ads for their "height cuisine" program that focuses on making…

Because I know there's a few closet sci-fi fans in law professor land, I wanted to note the passing of Ray Bradbury last night at the age of 91.  Despite…

Here's the latest on a lawsuit regarding the replacement of a Confederate statue that was damaged last year.  Cameron McWhirter has an extensive story on this in the Wall Street…

Thanks to Mark Bold I see that the House has just passed an act to compensation people sterilized under the authority of the North Carolina Eugenics Board.  Today's Reuters story…

Via Alphaville comes this snapshot, courtesy of Davis Polk, of Dodd Frank rulemaking progress (or lack thereof, depending on whether you’re a glass half full or half empty type of…

I was talking recently with my friend Jayne Thompson, who's writing a novel that touches on the November 3, 1979, Greensboro massacre.  That inspired a trip out to Greensboro to visit the…

Colin Miller, a law professor at John Marshall (Chicago), and a friend of (and occasional visitor to) the Lounge, asked me to make this post on his behalf: It was recently ...