Month: April 2013

They're talking about adding the slave quarters to the tour at the University of Alabama again.  The physical surroundings at the campus -- like the slave quarters -- really convey…

This call for papers just came in: FIRST ANNUAL WORKSHOP FOR CORPORATE & SECURITIES LITIGATION CALL FOR PAPERS The University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Richmond…

You can prep a dean all you want for his deposition in a lawsuit regarding a faculty firing, but sometimes he'll still answer entirely candidly.  Background on the case is…

Now that the Companion to American Legal History that Sally Hadden and I co-edited is available, I want to talk a little more about what it says about the field of ...

A lot of people have been talking about Steven Harper's The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis.  And in the academy we've been talking about the law school crisis for…

Scott Cummings of UCLA Law School has an important and very useful field review essay on "Empirical Studies of Law and Social Change" in the Wisconsin Law Review.  One footnote…

Here is a hiring announcement from our friends at the Savannah Law School, which may be of interest to Faculty Lounge readers: Savannah Law School has an exciting and challenging…

My last building trivia question was picked off right away -- which I guess isn't surprising since it was the student lounge at the University of Michigan Law School. I…

Dan has previously mentioned that Samford / Cumberland will be looking for a new dean to succeed John Carroll, who is stepping down from the helm in 2014.  You can…

From the AALS sections on Insurance Law and Torts Law: The AALS Section on Insurance Law and the AALS section on Tort Law will hold a program "On the Unavoidable…