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Pollard on Intentional Sex Torts: Continuing the Discussion

Posted on May 08, 2008
I told you last week that we haven't heard this last of this. Here's the latest roundup of the responses to Deana Pollard Sacks' article on "Intentional Sex Torts." First, the background. The whole discussion began with Deana's post at...

Collateral Consequences: Phiadelphia Judge Unseated Over 1984 Conviction

Posted on May 07, 2008
When we talk about the collateral consequences of conviction - sometimes known as civil disabilities - we rarely are able to see the costs to someone who actually does put her life together. (Mostly, these consequences function to stop people...

Hiatus on Guatemalan Adoptions

Posted on May 07, 2008
In the midst of investigating claims of fraud, Guatemala has halted all foreign adoptions. Since January, adoptions that were once handled by private attorneys have been handed over to a government agency. The US State Department has reported evidence of...

Government Roadblocks: Smokers, Dealers, Drinkers and Pedophiles

Posted on May 07, 2008
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the federal government is peddling fear. Sitting at my desk, drinking a cup of coffee, I attempted to read a New York Times article this morning. As sometimes happens, I encountered a roadblock...

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Score One For The Fraud Fighters: Elderly Nuns Denied Vote In Indiana

Posted on May 06, 2008
Indiana's Supreme Court certified fraud-fightin' voting ID law got a good workout today. AP tells us that several elderly nuns were denied the right to vote in South Bend (home of St. Marys and Notre Dame.) OK, maybe it was...

Randall Kennedy's Five Most Important Books

Posted on May 06, 2008
The current issue of Newsweek features Randall Kennedy. It talks about his five most important books. Pretty intriguing list. Professor Kennedy writes: 1. "The American Political Tradition" by Richard Hofstadter. It ignited my interest in history. 2. "Black Boy" by...

Cookie Dough Pucks, Melon Rinds, And The Missing Tray

Posted on May 06, 2008
We learn today, from the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required), that university food service operations are feeling financial pressure from the rising cost of food. How to make ends meet? A number of ideas surfaced in the article -...

A List Of Current Law School Dean Searches

Posted on May 05, 2008
Moved to the top May 5 with additions and modifications. As always, I encourage readers to provide any additional information. A couple of months ago, a colleague from another law school suggested I start a new list: a compilation of...

Loving v. Virginia's Mildred Loving: 1940-2008

Posted on May 05, 2008
By DIONNE WALKER for the AP: RICHMOND, Va. - Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died, her daughter said Monday....

The First Law School in (English Speaking) America?

Posted on May 05, 2008
I'm working on a short essay on Francis Daniel Pastorius. You've never heard of him, I'm almost certain. He was trained in law in Germany in the middle of the seventeenth century, then came to Pennsylvania and served as a...

Why Are Our Prisons Stuffed? Bill Stuntz Calls Out Democrats

Posted on May 03, 2008
Bill Stuntz, at Less Than the Least, has an interesting post up suggesting that disproportionate blame for the "social catastrophe" that is our mass incarcerative state falls to the Democrats. He argues that while Republicans can simply talk these deeply...

Why Does Fox News Even Exist?

Posted on May 03, 2008
This is the image they ran with after Clinton challenged Obama to a "Lincoln-Douglas" debate. I'm not sure which explanation is worse: (a) intentional race baiting; (b) negligent newsroom editing; (c) an educational system that completely failed the intern likely...

Anonymous Articles Editor Blog?!

Posted on May 03, 2008
How, how has this escaped our reading up to now? I'm most interested in hearing the thoughts of articles editors and here's a way to hear some of them. Now, whether we agree with them is an entirely separate matter....

Pollard on Intentional Sex Torts

Posted on May 03, 2008
As the Drudge Report would say, this is a developing story. Yesterday, my friend Deana Pollard Sacks of Texas Southern University blogged at feministlawprofs about her article "Intentional Sex Torts," which is forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review. (Her earlier...

Thoughts on the Free Flow of Information Act - Part II

Posted on May 02, 2008
Lets assume the Free Flow of Information Act, the proposed reporter?s shield law I blogged about on Tuesday, would lead to greater public disclosure of government wrongdoing. That alone might explain why AG Michael Mukasey opposes the law. But what...

Saving Sergeant Hagel (VP Brackets For Politics Nerds)

Posted on May 02, 2008
NCAA brackets are always loads of fun - the perfect way to break gambling laws and feel good about it. (Back in the day, Justice Rehnquist ran the Supreme Court tourney out of his chambers.) Now, for political junkies, comes...

The Law of People Magazine

Posted on May 02, 2008
Ok. It's Friday in May; it's been a very, very long year. Time for a little fun. (Hope I don't regret this post.) Amidst all the talk of reform of law school, here's something that I think gets lost. Rather...

Blackmon on Convict Labor

Posted on May 01, 2008
If you're by a television tonight, you'll want to check out Douglas Blackmon's interview with Tavis Smiley about his new book, Slavery By Another Name. It's about convict labor. Here's a description from the webpage for Slavery by Another Name....

The Future of the Reparations Movement?

Posted on May 01, 2008
I haven't written about reparations in a while, in part because other news has been consuming everyone's attention this spring. There have been some developments: the University of Maryland's starting a course this fall to investigate its connections to slavery...

Drexel Law Gets A New Name: The Earle Mack School of Law

Posted on May 01, 2008
Today we officially announce the renaming of the Drexel University College of Law. Henceforth, we will be called the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law. Mack, who (not surprisingly) is donating a lot of money to the law school,...

Theorizing The FLDS Case: Should Texas Terminate Parental Rights?

Posted on April 30, 2008
Harry Brighouse, a philosopher at UW Madison, has a nice post considering the question of when a state ought to terminate parental rights. (It's based on his article, with Adam Swift, Parents' Rights and the Value of the Family.) He...

Sovern on Rankings and Law School Priorities: A One Act Play

Posted on April 30, 2008
A recent ssrn digest brings news of Jeff Sovern's latest, "Rankings: A Dramatization of the Incentives Created by Ranking Law Schools." Here's his abstract: Sellers in a competitive market shift resources from attributes buyers don't care about to attributes buyers...

Summer Submissions to the Alabama Law Review

Posted on April 30, 2008
This summer, the Alabama Law Review is trying out a new program, which promises an expedited review (an answer up or down within two weeks) for articles where the author promises to publish with law review if the article is...

A Lesson In (In)credibility: LAPD Discovers It's Perfect

Posted on April 30, 2008
The Los Angeles Police Department announced, yesterday, that after looking into over 300 complaints of racial profiling, every single claim had no merit. The news is even better: according to the LA Times story, this is the sixth straight year...

A Gift For The Husband Who Has Everything: Daily Sex (For A Year)

Posted on April 29, 2008
Like Kathy, I like to troll newspapers from around the country and find out what's news. Normally, I focus on things related to law. But sometimes you can't ignore a great story - even when there really is no legal...

Law School Visitors 2008: Updated as of April 28

Posted on April 29, 2008
Here is the second iteration of this year's law school visiting professor list. This does not include visiting assistant professors who have yet to take their first full-time tenure track position. The entire list appears after the jump. I'm not...

Thoughts on the Proposed Reporter's Shield - Part I

Posted on April 29, 2008
In an opinion piece in USA Today, Attorney General Michael Mukasey sounds off against the Free Flow of Information Act presently being debated in Congress. If enacted into law, the measure would protect members of the press under certain circumstances...

Only In Berserkely: Boalt Hall Changes Name; Total Dummy Joins Faculty

Posted on April 29, 2008
Eric Muller has all the news. It's absolutely true. Download the incriminating evidence

Istanbul Legal Skills Conference

Posted on April 29, 2008
Still looking for a summer conference - try this one: The Istanbul Legal Skills Conference sponsored by the Legal Writing Institute and hosted by Bahcesehir University's Institute for Global Understanding in Law will bring together professors from the United States...

Baldus Redux - Race and the Death Penalty, Again

Posted on April 29, 2008
A new study to be published in the Houston Law Review this fall purports to provide statistical backing to what many in the criminal justice system would say is a no-brainer: race matters, especially when we're talking about who is...

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