The Faculty Lounge

There is an old story from the shtetl, in which one neighbor takes another to court, claiming "his goat ate my cabbages."  Replied the defendant: He had no cabbages; But ...

A few days ago, I posted an appreciation of Marcia Lythcott, who recently retired as commentary editor at the Chicago Tribune. My post mentioned the first oped I wrote for her, ...

Recently, the ABA Journal published its picks for the Best Legal Blogs of 2018. I am pleased to report that The Faculty Lounge was on this elite list of 34…

Originally recorded by Mississippi John Hurt, it was covered in the 1960s by Maria Muldaur and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. I haven't been able to find a live clip ...

Airbnb recently announced that it would no longer accept listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. This prompted Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan to write to five U.S. ...

Two creative students in my Federal Income Tax class made this video, a parody of the TLC song "No Scrubs."  Major kudos to Pace Law School students Alexis Bueno and ...

My introduction to Marcia Lythcott came in the summer of 1995, when we were both concerned about a brutish Chicago cop known as Bulldog, who had earned a well-deserved reputation ...

Creighton University School of Law, in Omaha, seeks a new dean.  The hiring announcement and call for applicants is here .  

From colleagues at IU-McKinney: Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law will be hiring visitors for the 2019-2020 academic year. Please forward to anyone who may be interested. Please…

This just in: Southern University Law Center (SULC) welcomes applications for the appointment of at least four tenured or tenure-track professors to start in the 2019-2020 academic year. We welcome…