The Faculty Lounge

Harry Brighouse, a philosopher at UW Madison, has a nice post considering the question of when a state ought to terminate parental rights.  (It's based on his article, with Adam…

Updated on April 30 with data received through April 27. I'm pleased to announce the first second iteration of this year's law school visiting professor list.  This does not include ...

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Like Kathy, I like to troll newspapers from around the country and find out what's news.  Normally, I focus on things related to law.  But sometimes you can't ignore a…

During the  recent Supreme Court argument in Louisiana v. Kennedy (the case considering the constitutionality of capital punishment for child rapists), counsel for the state detailed the  serious injuries suffered…

Updated as of April 27 and moved to the top.   Other related posts include current dean searches and 2008-09 visitors.  A slightly outdated list of laterals, by school of departure, ...

Over at Intrade, it appears that bettors - or shall we say, investors - think that Obama is about five times more likely than Hillary to get the nomination -…

The LA Times reports today a story that reflects more of this "policing über alles" mentality I discussed in my last post.  It seems that previously liberal California Attorney General…

The United States Supreme Court is moving toward allowing more and more suspicionless searching under the Fourth Amendment.  In Illinois v. Caballos, for example, the Court held that an officer…

"Chevron deference really does it for me", or so says Ms. Emily Bushnell, an NYU Law Student  in a highly entertaining  Law Revue spoof.   We watch snippets of her interviewing…