Month: July 2012

The NCAA imposed tough, but not brutal, sanctions on Penn State this morning.  It was fined $60 million (to be used to fund child sexual abuse programs), stripped of a…

Last week I reminded readers that the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Law and Society meeting would take place at Drexel, in Philly, on October 19-20, 2012.  I encouraged submissions by people residing in all boroughs and…

University of Connecticut School of Law Dean Jeremy Paul will be moving to Northeastern University School of Law next month.  He will take over the deanship from Emily Spieler.  Paul…

Well, it was easily predicatable that the JoePa statue would be removed, so it was no surprise to me.   I'm particularly interested in how Penn State's interim president, Rodney Erickson,…

Well, I still haven't heard an answer to my Park Trivia question on Friday, but it's Saturday evening and maybe it's time for a little monument trivia.  I usually hang…

Professor James Gardner, from SUNY Buffalo Law School, will be joining us for a while as a guest in the Lounge.  Jim is the outgoing vice dean for academic affairs,…

I've just read Stephen Clowney's lengthy and important article, "Landscape Fairness: Removing Discrimination from the Built Environment," which is an intensive study of monuments -- statues, parks, and the like ...

Theodore Eisenberg  and Martin T. Wells have a new paper up on ssrn, "Ranking Law Journals and the Limits of Journal Citation Reports."  Their abstract is as follows: Rankings of schools, scholars, ...

Due to a sudden and unavoidable change of topic,  the Northern Kentucky Law Review now plans to  host a symposium on the proposed Ethics 20/20 changes, especially as they relate…

I've been sitting on this image for a while; I'm going to use it to illustrate a post on Barack Obama's syllabus for his race and law class at the…