The Faculty Lounge

Following up on Dan's recent post here, Hannah Buxbaum has been named interim law dean at Indiana-Bloomington.  Professor Buxbaum presently serves as executive associate dean for academic affairs and holds…

John Marshall (Atlanta) has received permission from the ABA to open a branch in Savannah (to be called Savannah Law School).  The law school's press release is here.  Of possible…

The president of the University of Texas, William Powers Jr., has asked for - and received - the immediate resignation of UT Law Dean Lawrence Sager.  Sager had previously announced…

Following up on a post from mid-October, about Joe Gordon's guilty plea for web-publishing Thai translations of The King Never Smiles: there are reports that Joe Gordon has now received a two and one-half…

From an email that I received earlier today: The Becket Fund is assisting with a search to fill a clinical teaching position at a prestigious west-coast law school.  The person…

Raymond Pierce, who has served as dean of the NCCU School of Law since 2005, will step down as of next summer.  Before joining NCCU, Pierce was a partner at…

For those of you who don't read the WSJ religiously, I'm pleased to flag the newest innovation in Economy Class Comfort for international flights: Sky Couch, from Air New Zealand. …

Story here. Call me naive, but I did not see this coming. 

If you will have children with you at the AALS Annual Meeting in D.C., please consider advance registration for childcare service.  The deadline is December 16, 2011. Information, including fees, hours,…

Following on the other sad news of the last few weeks comes news that long-time Boston College law professor Robert Berry passed away November 21.  Bob was a beloved teacher…