Month: July 2013

Interesting survey results on polyamorists' interest in marriage were recently published on Loving More's website.  As background, conservatives who oppose marriage equality have been making slippery slope arguments for years…

This post is about reparations for slavery, even if not the kind we hear about now and then.  This is about the claims made by slave-owners in the wake of…

My colleague at Drexel, Lisa McElroy,  has a pretty powerful piece up at Slate today entitled Worrying Enormously About Small Things.  In it, she describes her long-term battle with a…

Starting very soon there will be a huge literature on Treyvon Martin and George Zimmerman.  I imagine that Michelle Meyer's blogging will be at the center of a lot of…

I'm very pleased to welcome Seval Yildirim to the Lounge for a visit.  Seval is an associate professor at Whitter Law School.  She holds a JD and LLM from NYU…

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, The Library Company of Philadelphia, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Stenton Museum have issued a call for papers for a conference on…

For some reason, this article eluded me until now.  Michael Simkovic and Frank McIntyre conducted a study assessing the long term value of a law degree.  Their conclusion: the mean…

I guess I didn't do my usual "summer reading list" blog post this year so anyone interested in sharing their thoughts for great summer reads (at least for what's left…

I k now.  It's been hours since I've discussed new developments in the Hostess rollout story.  But I hadn't focused on this incredible new feature of the Wal-Mart Hostess Twinkie:…

There's an interesting dialogue on the topic of law school clinics over at Prawfs.  That discussion is a nice companion piece to Vic Fleischer's Times op/ed and the conversation that…