Month: October 2013

Fred Konefsky of SUNY Buffalo and Barry Sullivan of Loyola University of Chicago have posted "In this, the Winter of Our Discontent: Legal Practice, Legal Education, and the Culture of Distrust" on…

Here's one of my favorite Gary Soto poems, "Job Interview."  Originally published in A Natural Man (Chronicle Books1999), the poem is also available online at http://enespanol.tripod.com/sottopoem1.htm.  Enjoy!   Job Interview…

A cemetery that served residents of the Central Islip Psychiatric Center will be restored by a partnership of Touro Law Center, the Community Association for At-Risk Jewish Cemeteries, and the…

In honor of Craig Wilder's Ebony and Ivy I thought that I'd ask a trivia question about a colonial American college (now University).  Where?

As long time readers of the faculty lounge may recall, I rarely see first run movies, but I make an exception when they relate to slavery or Jim Crow.  And…

Pace Law School is searching for a new dean. Here is the position announcement.

Dean Robert Klonoff will be stepping down as the dean of the Lewis and Clark law school at the end of this academic year.  He will have served for seven…

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger has announced the members of the search committee for the Columbia Law School dean.  They are: Richard Briffault, co-chair, Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of LegislationRobert Scott, co-chair, Alfred…

From an email that I received earlier today: The University of Connecticut solicits applications for a joint appointment within the School of Business and The Human Rights Institute at the…

As I'm sitting here editing the first chapter of University, Court, and Slave -- it and the tables on votes in the Virginia House of Delegates are getting the better of…