The Faculty Lounge

A major scientific finding has just surfaced in the Seventh Circuit.  In a new immigration opinion involving an asylum seeker, Judge Frank Easterbrook took a bold step into the land…

Congratulations to Paul Secunda, Rick Bales and Jeff Hirsch as Workplace Prof Blog hits the notable Site Meter achievement of one million page views.  In its three-plus years of existence,…

Kudos to Judge Ilana Rovner on the Seventh Circuit for her concurring opinion in Nuxoll v. Indian Prairie School District.  A student in a suburban Chicago high school wanted to…

Weeks ago I argued that Gore was more likely than Hillary to score the Democratic nomination.  I continue to believe this is true - and that every time Hillary lands…

No, this isn't a law post or one about ice cream cakes, per se.  Rather, it's about a beautiful Wednesday night and my own love for found objects - or…

Patrick O'Donnell, over at Ratio Juris, is putting up some substantial bibliographies in a variety of areas of law.  I can't  speak for their comprehensiveness - and indeed, he is…

Most of us realize that we are sitting on a pile of hazardous waste - from household chemicals to old computers, CRT's, and other items that look awfully tame when…

The University of Chicago Law School announced this week that it is now blocking student web access in classrooms.  Not everyone is on board.  Doug Berman argues that: I have…

  As Paul Secunda noted, the other day, some blogs benefit mightily from evergreen posts - blog entries that Google searchers visit again and again.  At my old blog, Concurring…

Very recently, I heard someone refer to Barack Obama as "Osama Obama."  My response was that the comment was clearly racist, but another person disagreed, arguing that it was a…