The Faculty Lounge

The New York Times reported yesterday about how legislators are thinking up various tax schemes to raise revenue.  Tom Ammiano, a city councilman in San Francisco (who has come very…

Dan Markel gave a heads up today about a new Mad Men spoof called Meshugene Men.  It's Don Draper et al from a Jewish point of view.  For anyone who loves…

Here's some data on snowfall in Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery Alabama (and Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, and Virginia to boot.)   I spent eight years in Alabama, and it…

In my Information Law seminar last year, a number of my students were intrigued by a case going through the Texas courts about a Texan plaintiff suing an Australian corporation…

For those of you with roots in Canadian law schools, here's some news of interest.  Philip Bryden, currently the law dean at the University of New Brunswick, will become the…

On Friday, Texas state House speaker Joe Straus pronounced himself optimistic that he (and other Dallas legislators) could push through legislation establishing a UNT Law School in downtown Dallas.  A prior…

Congrats to lounge co-host Kathy Bergin, who received a "thumbs up" from the STCL faculty yesterday on her tenure application!It seems like yesterday that I and several of my colleagues…

Tim's post on law review submissions got me thinking about some other issues I've been considering while negotiating this strange career we call legal academia.  Obviously, pre-tenure we're told that…

I have two articles that I’ll be submitting to law journals over the next three weeks or so.   When I first started teaching in 1994, I did not know that…

For weeks we've been hearing news about layoffs at various large law firms.  They've been notable for both their breadth - they're happening in a lot of different shops - ...