The Faculty Lounge

The Crimson has the  latest on the Harvard Law School's grading curve and how it awards honors.

This story from the Las Vegas Sun discusses lateral moves by three UNLV law professors, with one or more of the departures prompted (at least in part) by recent state…

The US News rankings of law school specialties appears to be here.  It might fairly be entitled "Trading Places" because the number 1 and 2 ranked schools have switched places in…

The Pulitzer Prize committee has just announced the new prize-winners.  This will be huge news for each of these authors, and their respective publishers.  (Random House picked up two of…

The semester is drawing to a close, final exams are about to begin, and graduation ceremonies will be here soon.  Readers are invited to share the names of law school…

A current issue of a popular news magazine describes me as "a tweedy, brainy legal scholar who writes brilliant law-review articles that are carefully reasoned, if more or less impenetrable…

Make of them what you will, but these 2010 US News law rankings seem like they may well be real.   They include the Top 100, Evening Programs, and Diversity…

I appreciate all the leads dedicated readers are sending, but it's the end of the semester here in Chapel Hill and I'm absurdly busy.   In fact, I'm drowning in work. …

We learn now that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the apparent mastermind of 9/11,  was waterboarded 183 times.  Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 35 times.  And I can 't help but wonder why…

Today, the Pulitzer committee will announce the winners of the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes.  This year, Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson, and Shakespeare's Kitchen, by Lore Segal, were nominated for…