Month: February 2015

"Death sentences are also seen as more final and irrevocable than other punishments." Daniel Epps, The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice, 128 Harv. L. Rev. 1065, 1084.  Maybe the author…

Sixteen Penn Law faculty members have signed an open letter criticizing the University's campus sex assault adjudication processes for being insufficiently protective of the rights of the accused.  The letter…

This Friday Washington and Lee's Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice is putting on a conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the…

There is great news coming from our neighbors at Penn Law.  The University of Pennsylvania has named Professor Theodore Ruger, the current Deputy Dean of the law school, as its new…

Regular Lounge readers know that we occasionally host min-symposia on special topics here, such as the recent Taxing Eggs symposium.  Well, I’m pleased to announce that we’ll host a mini-symposium…

For this final post in my series on social media, I'd like to mention LinkedIn. Much about the site is either creepy or bizarre. For example, alleged spamming from email ...

From an email message that I received last week: The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is beginning a search for a new Dean.  The new Dean would succeed Matthew…

Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama is currently in the news for instructing the state's probate judges that they do not need to adhere to a federal court ruling that…

Brando Starkey, a long-time guest here in the faculty lounge and former professor at Villanova and Thomas Jefferson, has just published In Defense of Uncle Tom: Why Blacks Must Police…

Cribbing now from today's press release at the new Mitchell|Hamline School of Law website: Two law schools that have shaped Minnesota’s legal landscape for more than a combined 154 years, Hamline University ...