The Faculty Lounge

I may be the last person to the party on this one, but until this very morning, I thought that Seattle's Best Coffee was a competitor of Starbucks.  It kinda…

Mike Madison has a very interesting post up about Harvard Law School's recent decision to hire Berkman Center for Internet and Society Executive Director John Palfrey as the director of…

When we talk about the collateral consequences of conviction - sometimes known as civil disabilities - we rarely are able to see the costs to someone who actually does put…

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the federal government is peddling fear.  Sitting at my desk, drinking a cup of coffee, I attempted to read a New York Times…

Indiana's Supreme Court certified fraud-fightin' voting ID law got a good workout today.  AP tells us that several elderly nuns were denied the right to vote in South Bend (home…

We learn today, from the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required), that university food service operations are feeling financial pressure from the rising cost of food.  How to make ends…

  Moved to the top May 5 with additions and modifications.  As always, I encourage readers to provide any additional information. A couple of months ago, a colleague from another ...

Bill Stuntz, at Less Than the Least, has an interesting post up suggesting that disproportionate blame for the "social catastrophe" that is our mass incarcerative state falls to the Democrats. …

NCAA brackets are always loads of fun - the perfect way to break gambling laws and feel good about it.  (Back in the day, Justice Rehnquist ran the Supreme Court…

Today we officially announce the renaming of the Drexel University College of Law.  Henceforth, we will be called the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law.  Mack, who (not surprisingly)…