The Faculty Lounge

It isn't every day that the New York Times puts Greensboro Alabama on the front page!  Here's a charming story on Walker Evans' photographs of rural Alabama, which he made for…

Larry Solum has updated his 2009 Entry Level Hiring Report, and it's got a new address: find it here.  

Richard Danziger received a life sentence in 1990 for the aggravated sexual assault of a Pizza Hut employee who was raped and murdered in 1988.  Several years later, new DNA…

We now know who will be involved in the search for a replacement for Dean Harold Koh.  This from the Yale Daily News:Law professor Paul Kahn GRD ’77 LAW ’80…

Add this to the flow of faculty to (and periodically ebb from) the Obama Administration.  Phil Weiser, of the University of Colorado School of Law, will be joining the U.S.…

Yesterday I noted the release of the first issue of the Drexel Law Review.  What I didn't mention was that Judge Pollak, the Inaugural Chair of Drexel Law's Visiting Committee ...

I'm pleased to see that the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law is now out.  I'll have some more thoughts when my copy arrives.

In this tough economic climate, it seems that one can’t pick up the daily newspaper without reading a story on another corporate bankruptcy.  Might automaker General Motors be next?  Last…

Danny Sokol asks the trenchant question of whether, given it's impressive student numbers and faculty productivity, you'd publish an article in the UC Irvine Law Review.  It's an interesting topic,…

Larry Solum's talking about an exciting new program from seven leading law reviews--Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Stanford Law Review,…