The Faculty Lounge

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…

I suppose that one thing that distinguishes progressives coming of age during the Rehnquist court from those coming out of the Warren (and to a lesser degree Burger) eras is…

Chelsea Clinton will be visiting Drexel Law this afternoon to chat with our law students in her typical Q&A format.  We will be webcasting this conversation (which is expected to…

Eric Muller points us to a small but compelling collection of high resolution photos from the camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II.  You can find them…

I've been reading over the briefs in Kennedy v. Louisiana, today's Supreme Court case considering the constitutionality of capital punishment for child rapists.  Yesterday I noted that the amicus brief…

One ongoing issue in the debates over child sexual abuse is the tendency of certain advocates to play games with statistics.  In  Making the Case for Megan's Law: A Study ...