The Faculty Lounge

Increasingly, fellowships and VAP positions are becoming pre-requisites to permanent academic positions in law.  Don't worry: there are still lots of folks who get jobs without these temporary gigs.  But…

According to this news story, gay prisoners can marry in Massachusetts and, soon, in California as well.  California has already been allowing conjugal visits with same-sex partners where they would…

Congratulations to the impressive folks at Marquette who, in addition to doing some fine hiring, and raising a ton of bank, have now started a faculty blog.  Featured artists include…

I like Google as much as the next person.  They've got a great search engine, and a ton of other small wonders - from calendars to picture software to email…

This announcement is a tad late for those of you who need to gin up something new, but if you've already got something in the pipeline...or if you've already sent…

Once upon a time, anyone who wanted to watch TV during a big political speech was (almost) forced to watch the speech.  Why?  Because when the big three networks -…

Doug Berman blogged the other day about this NY Times article describing agitated Pontiac, Illinois prison employees seeking to save their jobs by saving their prisons.  The gesture was certainly…

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports today about Tom Armstrong, a Lancaster County man - and former Republican state legislator - who is putting up three individuals convicted of various sex offenses…

Compared to most of the law prof blogs, we're still a baby.  But after almost seven fun months, we've hit the 100,000 visitor mark.  How can we not be excited…

Through  the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, we are preparing to send a large cohort of our Drexel Law students into the Philadelphia public schools.  2L's and 3L's will teach high…