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Catching My Eye

Posted on March 01, 2010
Baseball season will soon be upon us. (I could drop a reference here to Ernie Harwell and "the voice of the turtle," but most readers would have no clue as to what I'm talking about.) So imagine my delight when...

Oscar Countdown: Day 6

Posted on March 01, 2010
Today's question, courtesy of Lance McMillian: Identify the following movies based on their taglines: (1) "The Truth Can Be Adjusted" (2) "In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at...

Reflections of a Former Law Faculty Candidate (Now Law Professor)

Posted on March 01, 2010
Borrowing the title of this post from Stephen Carter .... Over at propertyprof, Tanya Marsh has some thoughts on the hiring process. She's moving from IU-Indianapolis, where she's been teaching legal writing for the last few years, to Wake Forest,...

Universities Move to Notify Parents Of Underage Drinking

Posted on March 01, 2010
Virginia Tech joined an (allegedly) growing movement of universities to notify parents when their kids get busted for drinking under age, the Washington Post reports. According to the article, parental notification regarding other disciplinary violations is normally prohibited by privacy...

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Ecuador's Shenanigans (Part II)

Posted on February 28, 2010
A few days ago, Mitu Gulati (Duke) gave us a guest post on Ecuador?s recent debt restructuring. Today, I bring you Adam Feibelman (Tulane) with a follow-up to that post. I?m grateful to Kim and the other folks at the...

Financial Regulation and the Kindness of . . . Whom?

Posted on February 28, 2010
Erik Gerding has a nice post up at The Conglomerate discussing Joel Seligman?s recent NY Times op ed, which argues the case for funding the SEC through corporate fees. Currently, the SEC is funded exclusively by congressional appropriations and has...

Oscar Countdown: Day 7

Posted on February 28, 2010
Today's question (a take-off on an earlier query): Franklyn Farnum holds the record for appearing in the most Best Picture winners (six). The films were released in three different decades (the 1930s, the 1940s and the 1950s). Name four other...

From the Desk of the Associate Dean, 2/28/10

Posted on February 28, 2010
Today marks six months and 28 days for me as Associate Dean. In terms of actual work, I think that coverts to about six years in faculty time. As I mentioned in my introductory post, I've come to really like...

Cooley Law School Gets Itself A Ballpark

Posted on February 28, 2010
Move over University of Phoenix. There's a new kid on the ballparks-named-for-educational-institutions block. Thomas Cooley Law School has just purchased naming rights to the downtown Lansing, Michigan facility previously known as Oldsmobile Park. Since Olds went under, GM decided not...

Anna Gelpern, On Why Sovereign Is The New Black

Posted on February 27, 2010
Anna Gelpern (American), who recently did a guest post here at the Lounge on the Greek crisis, is guest blogging over at Credit Slips. In her first post today, Anna asked Why Sovereign Is The New Black, noting that, after...

Oscar Countdown: Day 8

Posted on February 27, 2010
Today's question: name the two Best Picture winners that were based on books that won the Pulitzer Prize. (I suppose related questions might ask for Best Picture nominees adapted from Pulitzer Prize books, or Best Picture winners (or nominees) based....

Politics and the Antebellum UNC Literary Addresses

Posted on February 27, 2010
Following up my post on William Gaston's literary addresses at UNC and Princeton, I thought I'd talk a little about the political affiliations of the speakers. There are thirty-four published graduation addresses from pre-Civil War UNC -- most are addresses...

Blame It On Derivatives, Blame it On Goldman Sachs, Blame It On the Nazis. But Don?t Blame the Greek Crisis on Greece

Posted on February 27, 2010
In an earlier post, The Greek Crisis: Economic Meltdown or Mental One?, I took issue with a recent New York Time?s article which contends that ?Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened...

Dayton Law Dean, Lisa Kloppenberg, Stepping Down

Posted on February 27, 2010
Lisa Kloppenberg, who has served two for nine years as dean of the University of Dayton Law School will step down in the summer of 2011. Her advance planning leaves plenty of time for the law school to do a...

Contracts Conference (Part Five)

Posted on February 26, 2010
So far I am greatly enjoying the Spring Contracts Conference, which I am currently attending at UNLV. One of the panels I caught this morning featured the intersection of contract law and business associations (two of the subjects that I...

Laurence Tribe To Join Department Of Justice

Posted on February 26, 2010
Once upon a time, we figured that when Laurence Tribe joined the Federal government, he'd be working for the judiciary. But time has passed, and the controversial professor is no longer destined for an Article III career. Instead, he's going...

Oscar Countdown: Day 9

Posted on February 26, 2010
Today's question: name any of the three films which captured acting nominations for each/every cast member who had a speaking part. Pictured: All About Eve (1950), which earned a record-tying five acting nominations. Four actresses received nominations (a record?), but...

Is Northwestern Law #1 In Skills Training?

Posted on February 26, 2010
Northwestern Law School was pleased by the recent National Law Journal report that showed that it was the #1 law school in the U.S. in terms of placing students at the NLJ 250 firms. On a per capita basis, no...

Ministerial Exception, Schministerial Exception, Part III

Posted on February 25, 2010
In my last post, which seems like weeks ago (probably because I was out sick for a day, and then had to draft my first class schedule as associate dean, but that's a story for another post), I discussed whether...

Single Sex Gyms and BFOQs

Posted on February 05, 2010
Speaking of BFOQs, which fellow guest-blogger Paul McGreal happens to be (scroll down), I posed the following hypothetical to my employment seminar the other day: A gym runs a chain of 30 all women's clubs and employs 150 workers, all...

Logic Puzzles

Posted on February 05, 2010
A while ago I was reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and I was taken with two logic puzzles that readers of this blog might enjoy. They are found on pages 120 and 121 of the book respectively. 1. A man and...

More on Oscar...

Posted on February 05, 2010
So this one's for Tim who thoroughly beat me to the Oscar countdown. I was in a plane when the nominees were announced. Here is a question I should know the answer to, but I bet Tim already does: Has...

Audio Books

Posted on February 05, 2010
In my quest to kill time while driving long distances I have finally succumbed to the audio book - for those times when you just can't use a Kindle because you'd cause a car crash. I've always thought audio books...

Oscar Countdown: Day 30

Posted on February 05, 2010
Today's question: Name the only film to receive the most Oscar nominations in its year of eligibility and NOT receive a nomination for Best Picture. Pictured: No Country For Old Men, the Best Picture winner from 2007 (tying There Will...

Ministerial Exception, Shministerial Exception, Part I

Posted on February 05, 2010
In my first post, I mentioned that one of my current works-in-progress addresses a doctrine known as the "ministerial exception" to Title VII employment discrimination claims. This post is the first in a series that critiques the exception. This post...

Time to Re-examine Tenure Process?

Posted on February 05, 2010
Ohio State president Gordon Gee thinks so. Story here. And did you know that Ohio State has the country's largest university enrollment? Neither did I. Get out the crayons and color me surprised.

The Sit-Ins, A View From The Other Side

Posted on February 05, 2010
These are the iconic pictures of the sit-ins we're commemorating this week. Above are the four students who started the movement on February 1, 1960, when they sat down at a Whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina.....

New Mexico Seeks Clinical Visitor

Posted on February 05, 2010
From an email I received today via the lawprof listserv, and posted here with permission: The University of New Mexico School of Law ("UNM") seeks a Visiting Professor of Law to teach in its nationally-recognized clinical law program during the...

Oscar Countdown: Day 31

Posted on February 05, 2010
Today's trivia question: Name the only film directed by Alfred Hitchcock to win the Best Picture prize. (P.S. He never won the Best Director award.) Pictured: stamp released by the United States Postal Service on August 3, 1998.

Blogevity

Posted on February 05, 2010
Thanks, Dan, Kim, Jacqui, et al for the warm welcome to the Lounge! Ah, yes, I have been doing guest blogs for some time now, as Dan notes, although not quite as far back as 1955. *Cherry dusts off an...

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