The Faculty Lounge

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…

Jonathan Adler, echoing David Boaz in the WSJ, complains that Starbucks has rejected customers' efforts to personalize a Starbucks card with "laissez faire".  Unlike "people, not profits", a motto that…

It's widely known that law schools use a variety of tools to game the US News law school ranking process.  One effective way to increase the LSAT's of entering first…

Drexel students held their first public interest auction last week.  These events are always a fun part of the law school experience but the first time was particularly special.   …

For those of you unsatisfied by the current list of lateral faculty moves organized by school of arrival, here is the the list by school of departure. American Dennis Ventry ...

I fear that I am setting off on a fool's errand, but here goes... As many of you have discovered by now, I am a fan off data aggregation.  And…

Representative Jane Harman has a disturbing post up at Huffington (which is also an LA Times op-ed) discussing the frequency of rape in the military - and particularly the extent…

Who doesn't like a free book?  Dan Solove's two excellent volumes, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, and The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in…

OK, so I agree with Brian Leiter that the overall US News law school rankings don't tell you that much (although to be fair, over time they produce what they…