Month: August 2013

From an email message that I received a day or two ago: The University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law invites applications for 4-5 full time faculty members…

We're incredibly pleased to announce that two new permabloggers are joining the Faculty Lounge.  Many of you will already be familiar with their particularly engaging (and at times controversial) posts.…

I was visiting Sydney Sea Life Aquarium recently and, in the children’s activity area, noticed signs urging kids to become plastic warriors by pledging to reduce their families’ use of plastic packaging…

Erik Lomis has a very good post on the Battle of Blair Mountain, which began on August 25, 1921, ninety two years ago today and about which I am shamefully…

Ian Holloway sends along a link to a report that President Obama has called for law school to shorten to two years.  Whenever I hear Obama talking about law school…

Well, we're at the 182nd anniversary of the end of the Nat Turner rebellion.   It unravelled on the morning of August 23, 1831.  After the rebellion ended following a…

Our friends at the AALS section on financial institutions have asked me to repost their call for papers.  The deadline for submission is Sept. 3   AALS Joint Program of…

This evening marks the 182 anniversary of the beginning of the Nat Turner rebellion.  I thought that you might like to see some of the scenes where the rebellion took…

From an email that I received earlier today (and which I have edited, in part, solely for brevity): Stetson University College of Law invites applications for three positions: 1.  Experienced…

Saul Cornell and Nathan Kozuskanich's edited volume, The Second Amendment on Trial: Critical Essays on District of Columbia v. Heller, is now out.  Cribbing now from the University of Massachusetts'…