The Faculty Lounge

Many of us have submitted manuscripts to law journals this month.  I’m looking for good homes for two articles.  (Student editors, call me please!  Yes, my titles refer to the…

In what is seen as the most significant law school news story in several generations, NYU Law School has unexpectedly launched a hostile takeover of Harvard and Yale Law Schools.  For the…

The Georgetown Law Journal's got a nice little debate in its most recent issue, with Pierre Schlag declaring that: "American legal scholarship today is dead—totally dead, deader than at any ...

Texas is a state that elects its judges, so political affiliation and money can have a significant impact on the outcome.Wallace Jefferson (pictured), Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court,…

South Texas College of Law has named Donald J. Guter as its tenth dean (and president).  He is a law professor at Duquesne and its former dean.  Congrats, Professor Guter,…

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According to a breaking story in Philadelphia's Legal Intelligencer, Wolf Block - or WolfBlock, if you take their PR seriously - is about to dissolve.  If this story proves correct,…

To take my mind off the spring law review submission season, I've been reading "Born Digital" by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser - a very good book particularly if you're…

... on this date in 1980?I'm guessing that most of us who are over 40 were witnesses to one of the most talked-about attempted murders in history. J.R. Ewing was ...

Actually, the sky is NOT falling.  But as Dan notes in his post immediately below this one, housing values are.One of the cover stories in this morning’s Houston Chronicle reports…