The Faculty Lounge

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  A slightly outdated list of laterals, by school of departure, ...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…

A major scientific finding has just surfaced in the Seventh Circuit.  In a new immigration opinion involving an asylum seeker, Judge Frank Easterbrook took a bold step into the land…

Congratulations to Paul Secunda, Rick Bales and Jeff Hirsch as Workplace Prof Blog hits the notable Site Meter achievement of one million page views.  In its three-plus years of existence,…

Kudos to Judge Ilana Rovner on the Seventh Circuit for her concurring opinion in Nuxoll v. Indian Prairie School District.  A student in a suburban Chicago high school wanted to…