The Faculty Lounge

As both Corey Yung and Orin Kerr noted yesterday (along with large and small news outlets), New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reached an agreement with three major Internet Service…

CQ did vice-presidential brackets for John McCain a few weeks back - and guess what?  Voters ended up picking The Huck as McCain's wing mate.  While I think that's as…

Ahh, such fresh blogger enthusiasm! Rick Hills has burst onto the Prawfs scene, battling to defend Phyllis Schlafly, scorning Judith Butler, and now claiming the mantle of anti-intellectual.  He has…

When Drexel was considering starting a law school, way back about an hour and a half ago, existing faculty and staff were committed to creating a college that avoided the…

It's summertime which means it's time to travel.  To a summer job.  Or perhaps just on vacation.  Over at ATL, they're putting together a summer associate lunch guide city by ...

From Sentencing Law and Policy, Texan Scott Panetti has been found competent for execution by Judge Sam Sparks in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.  He…

Mostly we report on law school deans who join new law schools.  Today, however, we learn that Nancy Rogers - dean of the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State…

Seems that the customs folks at Narita International Airport, in Tokyo, aren't ready to win the war on drugs.  Last week, an agent delivered five ounces of cannabis into the…

Jessica Lacher-Feldman, from the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama, recently unearthed some fun old clippings from the collection.  It seems that Nellie Harper Lee,  author of…

Governor David Paterson did something very laudable on Friday: he pardoned hip-hop artist Ricky Walters who had previously been convicted (and served time) for attempted murder.  Under federal immigration law,…