The Faculty Lounge

Here's an author's dilemma.  Imagine you'd written a treatise for West.  After a few years, you decided to pen an update - but West declined.  And when West sliced your…

Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren (pictured), no stranger to those of us who have been anointed to teach commercial law, is featured in the current issue of Newsweek (April 20). …

Thanks to Doug Berman for surfacing this new product, WatchOut!, an iPhone app which allows phone owners to search for sex offenders wherever they are.  The product press release is…

Danielle Citron's paper, Cyber Civil Rights, argued that one way to address anonymous online attackes - of the Auto Admit variety -  is to conceptualize them as civil rights violations.…

Who said that President Obama has a fixation on law professors only at Harvard and Yale? Last Friday, President Obama nominated Larry Echohawk (pictured) to be Assistant Secretary for Indian…

From the Washington Post today:The D.C.-based Sentencing Project reported that the number of black inmates in state prisons for drug offenses had fallen from 145,000 in 1999 to 113,500 in…

I was surprised to learn that, last year, Yale College placed 1052 people on its waitlist.  60 received offers of admission.   MIT placed 700 students on the queue and…

A 43 year old man was, going by the name Perry Mason, was arrested in Houston today.  He apparently was practicing law without a license and collecting fees for it.…

Yesterday the SEC filed securities fraud charges against a firm for operating a $23 million investment scheme.  The SEC’s complaint alleges that the firm “purported to use investor funds to…