The Faculty Lounge

Today's cup of Starbucks coffee arrived in a fresh looking cup, with a fresh looking jacket (that now boasts "Starbucks Fresh Roasted Coffee".)  The cup contains text about Pike Place…

Judith Kaye, the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, will file suit today arguing that the state legislature's failure hike judicial pay violates state law.  The argument,…

We learn today that Fairfax (VA) schools are debating whether to issue a report showing that Latino and African-American third graders are lagging in sound moral character and ethical development. …

An insightful (and concerned) colleague of mine has noted the paucity of female participants in this mobblog - and for her it reflects, more generally, the ways in which women’s…

In light of the high conviction rate among Penn faculty (including neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh and marketing prof Scott Ward), the University has decided to build a new prison for…

We typically think of censorship in terms of active prohibition of the creation or distribution of speech (or similar content.)  But today we learn of an insidious method of censorship…

  At least that proved true for Brian Donovan.  Sociologist of law, author of  White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887-1917, enabler of NCAA basketball champions, and now…

As a member of the inaugural faculty of a new law school, I often have the joy - and headache - of contemplating the question of what Drexel Law ought…

Come one, come all.  There's a mobblog going on over at Madisonian.net.  Zillions of law profs, including  current and former deans Erwin Chemerinsky, Jim Chen, Nancy Rapoport,  and Rodney Smolla,…

Apparently Google employees, and their camera trucks, are now driving street by street photographing America's neighborhoods in service of their Google Street-View mapping feature.  And not only do they drive…