The Faculty Lounge

The unemployment rate in the nation's largest state soared .4% in a month, hitting an excrutiating 10.5% for February.  It's the highest jobless rate there since 1983, and the job loss…

Earlier this week NHL goalie Martin Brodeur set a new record for career wins.Today a New Jersey appeals court slid one past him.  Story here.

I was born on this date in 1891 in Los Angeles.My father was murdered.I played the clarinet in my high school band.I flunked a course in Greek as an undergraduate ...

It appears that, notwithstanding all the strong challenges to rational action theory in law, there is still at least some rational action when it comes to reproductive choices.  As the…

March – the month when one of the more exciting spectacles in sport kicks off:  the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament.March – the month when one of the most emotionally-draining, ...

He was born in New York City on June 19, 1903, and attended Columbia University on a football scholarship.  But he excelled at baseball and later signed a contract to…

It felt odd when the Pan Am Building disappeared from the New York skyline (replaced by the MetLife Building monniker in 1991.)  And it feels even stranger to hear that…

Vanderbilt Law School has named the search committee tasked with replacing Dean Ed Rubin.  Lisa Bressman will be chairing the committee.  She'll be joined by Suzanna Sherry, Ingrid Wuerth, Richard…

Two broadcasts I saw/heard last Thursday gave me something to think about.  Like many others, I had eagerly (?) awaited Jon Stewart's much hyped interview with Jim Cramer on The…

Don't fuck with Texas.  Or at least not the fine police and peace officers of the Lonestar State.  Perhaps it's all the anxiety over declining morals of American society (wait…