The Faculty Lounge

This morning, on NPR,  I heard Alabama Senator Richard Shelby criticizing proposed bailouts of the auto industry.  This isn't a crazy position.  Perhaps Shelby, the ranking member of the Senate…

Thanks to Patrick O'Donnell for pointing me towards this post over at Legal Ethics Forum.  There's been a good discussion - with valuable links - pondering the future of indigent…

Surely the headline of the day: Nebraska Parents Rush to Leave Kids Before Law Changes In the one of the most stalwart family values states, parents rush to dump their ...

Over at White Collar Crim Prof Blog, Ellen Podgor has her White Collar Crime wishlist for the Obama administration.  Some very good ideas - and the good news is that…

We're very pleased to welcome Daniel Sokol as a guest here at the Lounge.  Danny is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.  He's a…

We've heard a lot about moral hazard recently.  The coarse account is that we should worry about bailing out risk-takers lest they come to rely on bailouts in their future…

Until recently, I was entirely unaware of the existence of Warsaw Ghetto, a novel by Mary Berg.  Berg was raised in Poland and arrived in New York in March 1944…

There's a new insurance product on the market and no, you needn't worry that it will single-handedly consume your 403(b)  (or 401(k) for those of you employed by entitities that…

Jasmyne A. Cannick has an interesting and provocative op-ed in the LA Times today entitled No-on-8's White Bias.  Arguing from the perspective of an African-American lesbian, Cannick slams the No-on-8…

I was taking a look at a comprehensive list of Presidential election results today and noted a variety of details about the less publicized aspects of the results.  Among the…