Month: March 2013

Adam Mourad has posted "Whose Line is it Anyway? Originalist Historical Methodology and the Problem of Inadequate Interdisciplinary Practice" on ssrn.  His brief abstract is: "This article seeks to outline…

You know what this blog hasn't had in a long time?  A building trivia question. For this one, I'm digging into the Library of Congress' collection of photographs from the…

The University of Connecticut School of Law has selected,  Tim Fisher, a partner in the Hartford office of McCarter and English, as its new dean.  Fisher is a graduate of…

At no time have we, the permanent bloggers at the Faculty Lounge, disclosed any kind of identifying information about any Faculty Lounge commenter to any third party.  While guest bloggers…

I've been thinking a bunch about applied legal history these days and enjoyed very much Janet Cooper Alexander's meditation on the impact of John Yoo's idiosyncratic interpretation of the war…

Professor Chad Marzen of FSU's Business School has posted "Law, Popular Legal Culture, and the Case of Kansas, 1854-1856" (forthcoming Wyoming Law Review) on ssrn.  His abstract is as follows:…

I've been lucky enough to secure an advance copy of Hilary Beckles' Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide, which will be published at the end of…

Dean Michael Schill of the University of Chicago Law School has been named one of four finalists in the search for a new Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin -…

A day after the interim deanship of Tom Keefe at SLU imploded, the University has now announced that one of the school's two dean finalists - Saint Louis Professor Mike…

A few weeks back I blogged about Brent Newton's ninety-five theses on the reform of legal education.  Now I want to call your attention another article that critiques legal education…