The Faculty Lounge

In the last couple of days, we've finally seen a few stories reporting on law school application levels.  It's about time.  It has long been common wisdom that law school…

I missed this story in the NY Times, but it appears that Tropicana is dropping its crappy looking new packaging and returning to a carton you recognize and want to…

According to a story in the reputable law publication, The Recorder, Citibank and Bank of America may get slammed in the bankruptcy of failed law firm Heller, Ehrman, White &…

Congratulations to the latest pair of law professors named to high level posts in the Obama administration.  Jon Cannon, the Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the…

Most of us probably know very little about other law schools, excluding those where we have been students or professors.  In this post I want to provide ten pieces of…

A colleague recently mentioned Disney's acquisition last year of a small online "green" company, idealbite.com.  This company specializes in providing tips about maintaining an eco-friendly lifestyle.  Apparently, Disney paid $20…

Ever a hotbed of lefty politics, the city of San Francisco has a new identification card program sure to please the locals and make lots of folks in the Red…

Thomas Saenz, formerly an attorney with MALDEF and currently legal counsel to LA Mayor AntonioVillaraigosa, will be named to head the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.   Like any good political gossip, this…

The Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis has named Kevin Smith its new dean.  Smith, who was the acting dean last year, and the interim…

I use random recitation in my commercial law courses (as if the topics themselves didn’t remove me from serious consideration for any teaching prizes).  I give students two “free passes”…