The Faculty Lounge

Framing matters, especially when it comes to news.  And today we witnessed a very interesting framing strategy on the education front.  A national organization called Fight Crime: Invest in Kids ...

In an effort to bolster morale, or perhaps simply provide useful information to share with passengers irate at the new $2 soda on US Airways, a recent airline employee newsletter…

Most college and graduate students have to write research papers.  It comes with the territory.  But in the past few years, my sense - based on both first person experience…

As Dan Rodriguez points out at Co-op and Prawfs, and Patrick O'Donnell adds here - all in comments (pretty please, don't let this be bullying...) - Papa Doug Manchester (his…

One of the big areas of legal scholarship today involves study of the expressive function of law: how does an action or a rule symbolically articulate a particular position?  Well,…

We're very pleased that Professor Joseph Miller will be joining us as a guest here at The Faculty Lounge.  Joe is on the faculty at the Lewis and Clark Law…

There's been a lot of talk about the swing voter and although I'm not one of them, I've begun to realize that I am a "swing" consumer in another area:…

There is a dangerous election issue brewing and a Washington Post story last week provides a good foreshadow: felon enfranchisement. The Post reported on Reggie Mitchell,  a Floridian (and not…

For those of you planning a trip soon, you can find an airline-by-airline guide to food service - what you'll get free, and what you won't - here.  US Airways…

It's hardly law news, but news it is.  Michael Chabon, the ridiculously talented author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Wonder Boys, and Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and the…