Month: July 2015

Alexander Boni-Saenz of Chicago-Kent Law School has posted "Sexuality and Incapacity," which is forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal, on ssrn.  Cribbing now from his abstract: Sexual incapacity doctrines…

Christopher Fairman, a professor and associate dean at Ohio State Law passed away yesterday from cardiac arrest.  He was 54.  He joined the OSU faculty in 2000 and worked primarily…

Alabama has been in the news a lot of late with the release of Go Set a Watchman.  But this is good news of a different sort: the University of Alabama ...

Here at the faculty lounge we're putting together a blog symposium on Go Set a Watchman.  Faculty lounge blogger Steve Lubet's essay, "Reconstructing Atticus Finch," in the Michigan Law Review…

The AALS is currently posting a flock of calls for papers and proposals for the January 2016 meeting in New York.  We have made some mention of them individually, but…

For once in my scholarly life I feel like things are moving, well, too fast to keep up with them.  Usually we get a monument protection act, or a case…

My new article has been posted by The New Republic.  There is much new information about Alice Goffman's On the Run, including the outcome of the murder case at the…

This just in: The University of Arizona James E Rogers College of Law invites applications for a fellowship position in its Veterans’ Advocacy Law Clinic. The Veterans’ Advocacy Law Clinic ...

AALS Section on Poverty Law Call for Papers for 2016 AALS Annual Meeting The AALS Section on Poverty Law is seeking abstracts or drafts of papers to be presented at…

With just a little bit of perspective, I want to pick out some lines from Go Set a Watchman that'll resonate with lawyers, law students, and law faculty (particularly property…