The Faculty Lounge

With Michael Cahill headed to become dean of Brooklyn Law School, Rutgers University has named Kim Mutcherson as its new co-dean, responsible for the Camden Law campus.  Mutcherson holds a…

"One Fine Day" was written by Goffin and King, originally intended for Little Eva. When that did not work out, it was recorded by The Chiffons, charting at number five ...

The California State Bar just released a report in which the authors attempted to explain the decline in bar exam performance in recent years, focusing on results from 2013, which ...

It's not in the printed AALS program but if you're at the conference today, the law schools of Drexel, Penn, Temple and Villanova are co-hosting a Philadelphia Area Law Schools…

a/k/a Ray Sawyer: It worked:

Congress passed the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act (the "First Step Act") earlier in December,  prior to the government shut-down. The criminal justice bill, supported…

The American Law Institute recently elected 68 new fellows.  Included among them are these faculty members: CaliforniaMáximo Langer, Los Angeles – Professor, University of California, Los Angeles School of LawLisa…

Happy 2019! Why not start out the new year with a set of readings on repugnance . . . you know you want to.  (They’re readings on repugnance, not repugnant readings!) There…

In May, 2017, I participated in a fantastic international workshop at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Spain. The workshop brought together participants from the various…

"My Grandfather's Clock" was written in the late nineteenth century by Henry C. Work, who is also famous for the Civil War song "Marching through Georgia." It was widely marketed ...