The Faculty Lounge

Over at ContractsProfBlog, Jeremy Telman has an interesting post on the current state of NIL concluding that "the center cannot hold" and urging a move to a development league model:…

The BBC has the story, here:  "Are the relics of the Buddha a commodity that can be treated like a work of art to be sold on the market?" wonders…

I posted a new article to SSRN, Repugnant Work. Here is the abstract: This chapter discusses the repugnant income generating activities ("RIGA") of phase I medical research ("guinea pigging"), sex…

This just in: The International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family (IASJF) is pleased to announce that it will hold its sixteenth international Symposium on “Internationalization…

In this moving piece, Sally Satel, a two time kidney transplant patient argues in favor of The End Kidney Deaths Act. One thing I always appreciate about Sally is her…

 "The EKDA, a 10-year pilot program proposed by the Coalition to Modify NOTA, offers a sensible, moderate approach to valuable consideration in the form of refundable tax credits of $50,000…

In 1966, "Paint It Black" was the Rolling Stones' first song featuring the sitar, and only the second by a rock group with sitar (after the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood," which ...

From a recent email message: University of San Francisco seeks renewable term and visiting legal writing faculty The University of San Francisco School of Law is hiring for a full-time…

This abstract, with an interesting title, from an always-interesting author, came across my desk recently. Anita Bernstein, Are You There Law? It's Me Semen. Here's the abstract from SSRN: AbstractJoining…

This long-awaited paper from Kessler and Roth was just published last week. As Roth notes, they began work on the project in 2010, when Kessler was "just a kid." In…