The Faculty Lounge

Here is one of those Steven Levitt Freakonomics mysteries I've been pondering recently.  As many people know, designer knockoff bags are sold by vendors on Manhattan's Canal Street.  You can…

In the search for an understanding of New York's new governor, here's one more tidbit for the pile.  When it came to Megan's Law, he was the rare rational legislator. …

Call it a blogger confessional.   I know that I haven't been putting up hugely substantive posts of late.  Those entries take more time and concentration than I can currently muster…

Belle Lettre has a good list of interesting posts on Eliot Spitzer here. As always,  sometimes, the Smoking Gun has the primary documents here and here. Update:  I'm behind the…

Apparently they do in the California State University system.  This from the SF Chronicle: As a Quaker, [Cal State East Bay teacher] Kearney-Brown is committed to nonviolence and was unwilling…

This week we learned that Oscar winning best actress, Marion Cotillard, thinks that the World Trade Center may have been taken down by Americans seeking to avoid the high costs…

I'm surprised that there isn't greater coverage of the revelation in Thursday's USA Today that: U.S. postal authorities have approved more than 10,000 law enforcement requests to record names, addresses…

Sex offender community notification laws - sometimes known as Megan's Laws - have been a popular way for legislators to establish their anti-crime bona fides.  We've known that these laws…

Apparently there is a national movement supporting the rights of students to pack heat on college campuses.  (It's called SCCC - Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.)  Villanova law students…

Update: The 2009 US News law school rankings have been leaked prematurely.  For more information, visit here. Psych! Whatever you think of the actual rankings - and people have certainly…