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IOLTA Problems in the Post-Kelo World

Posted on February 05, 2010
Assume, in response to the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), that your state legislature enacts a law that bans the government from taking private property and giving it to another private...

Oscar Countdown: Day 32

Posted on February 05, 2010
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards yesterday. How did you do on your prognostication? Beginning today, I'll post an "Oscar Trivia" question each day until March 7, when Steve Martin...

Denver Seeks Director of Research

Posted on February 05, 2010
This announcement is posted at the request of Jordan M. Singer, who is with the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver: The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at...

Getting to Know Me, Getting to Know All About Me

Posted on February 05, 2010
A heartfelt "thank you" to my former colleague and good friend Tim Zinnecker for his warm welcome to The Faculty Lounge. And thanks also to the Lounge's permanent residents for the opportunity to spend some time here. I am looking...

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Bar Review On Your iPhone. And It's (Relatively) Cheap!

Posted on February 05, 2010
We already knew we could do almost everything on our little iPhone. Thanks to the magic of capitalism, humans have created 140,000 different applications - from the mundane to the sublime - to run on that magical Apple toy. But...

Welcome Guest Blogger Miriam Cherry

Posted on February 05, 2010
We are very pleased to welcome Miriam Cherry, Professor of Law at McGeorge School of Law, at University of the Pacific, here to the Lounge. Miriam is just back at McGeorge after spending a semester visiting at the University of...

Drake Seeks Visitors

Posted on February 05, 2010
From emails posted this week on the lawprof listserv: DRAKE LAW SCHOOL may have one or more tenure-track or visiting positions available in the 2010-11 academic year. We are interested in both entry-level and experienced candidates. Our curricular needs include...

Verge of the Unb ring (The Modern Greek Drama, Part 3)

Posted on February 05, 2010
In my first post on this topic, The Modern Greek Drama: Comedy, Tragedy, or Both?, I offered the insights of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partner and sovereign debt guru, Lee Buchheit, on the current Greek sovereign debt drama. In...

Welcome, Paul McGreal!

Posted on February 05, 2010
I'm delighted to welcome Paul McGreal as our guest. Paul was my colleague at South Texas College of Law for ten years before leaving us in 2006 to join the Southern Illinois University School of Law (where he recently became...

Prison Libraries and Black Identity

Posted on February 05, 2010
In honor of black history month, I thought I'd repost an entry from a visit I did at blackprof a while back. I was thinking about this because I attended a conference a couple weeks back on the the rules...

Bradley and Gulati and the Sine Curve of Customary International Law

Posted on February 05, 2010
This past weekend, Duke Law School hosted a fabulous conference on Curtis Bradley's and Mitu Gulati's new article on Opt Out in Customary International Law (it's called "Withdrawing from International Custom"). Alas, the one big snow storm of the year...

The Modern Greek Drama, Part 2

Posted on February 05, 2010
In my last post, The Modern Greek Drama: Comedy, Tragedy, or Both?, I offered the insights of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partner and sovereign debt guru, Lee Buchheit, on the current Greek sovereign debt drama. In this post, Buchheit's...

The Modern Greek Drama: Comedy, Tragedy, or Both?

Posted on February 05, 2010
Earlier this month, we asked the question, "Is 2010 The Year of Odious Sovereign Defaults?" As predicted, Greece (and Europe more generally) will have to answer that question soon. According to Bloomberg: Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Greece is losing the...

LaVerne Immigration Law Symposium

Posted on February 05, 2010
On February 19-20 the LaVerne Law Review is hosting an immigration law symposium, "Encountering Stereotypes." Hiroshi Motomura of UCLA law school (and before that UNC) will deliver the keynote address, "What Is 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform'?" Motomura is the author of,...

Medieval Justice

Posted on February 05, 2010
From the Boston Globe comes Peter Leeson's "defense" of the medieval ordeal. Here's a sample: Modern observers have roundly condemned ordeals for being cruel and arbitrary. Ordeals seem to reflect everything that was wrong with the Dark Ages...

Swinger Economics

Posted on February 05, 2010
On SSRN. Better yet, these comments on the paper, lifted from the comments section at Robin Hanson's Overcoming Bias: Anon: "It's somewhat unhinging to realize that there is an economist studying these things in Italy, and his name is Fabio."...

New Monument Coming Soon To Tuscaloosa

Posted on February 05, 2010
I'm deep in analysis of votes in the Virginia legislature in the early 1830s right now, so this is going to be fast. There's a new statue -- of Nick Saban -- coming to the University of Alabama's walk of...

Global Free Speech Update Iran:

Posted on February 05, 2010
Global Free Speech Update Iran: Iran this week broadcast the execution of two men convicted of "counterrevolutionary" acts and defying god. Bad enough that Iranian authorities say the charges were justified on account of the men's involvement in protests surrounding...

Yet Another Law School Merger? UC San Diego, Meet Cal Western

Posted on February 05, 2010
Thanks to Paul Caron, we learn that the San Diego Union is reporting that UC San Diego and California Western Law School have entered into preliminary negotiations to merge - or perhaps, simply, to affiliate. Apparently, there is talk of...

Cleveland Marshall Dean Geoff Mearns Named Interim CSU Provost

Posted on February 05, 2010
Geoff Mearns, dean of Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law has been named interim provost of the University. The sitting provost, Mary Jane Saunders stepped down - apparently immediately. Although I don't have any information right now, I assume...

Chapman Law Dean, John Eastman, Resigns For AG Run

Posted on February 05, 2010
John Eastman, the dean of Chapman University School of Law in southern California, is resigning Monday. He will seek the Republican nomination in the race for the post of state Attorney General. Eastman has a JD from the University of...

One Lawyer's Part For Haiti

Posted on February 05, 2010
My co-author's spouse, Adam Broome (Vice President-Legal, General Counsel & Secretary at Cree, Inc.), is a super-interesting guy for a whole lot of reasons, not the least of which is his passion for aviation. Last week, Adam had a chance...

Paul Jones (1928-2010)

Posted on February 05, 2010
It is sad news to report that a friend of mine, Paul Jones, has passed away. I got to know Dr. Jones in 2004, after he sent me a letter that contained a few words of encouragement. He had seen...

Citizens United and Compelled Speech

Posted on February 05, 2010
In Citizens United the government argued that the ban on corporate political speech was justified by the need to protect dissenting shareholders. The Court brushed that argument aside, noting that it was not applicable to non-profit advocacy corporations and that...

RIP, J.D. Salinger

Posted on February 05, 2010
Hot off the presses (and how long will it be until that particular phrase is defunct?): J.D. Salinger died yesterday at age 91. Story here. For over 50 years, an important part of teenage-hood has been reading, and emphasizing, with...

Wouldn't Alexander Bickel Be Smiling Today?

Posted on February 05, 2010
Calvin Massey says that the President was showing "puerile anger" last night in criticizing the Citizens United decision in the presence of six of the nine Justices. Ann Althouse sees it this way: I think that if [the Justices] knew...

Obama's Supreme Court Attack

Posted on February 05, 2010
In last night's State of the Union message, President Obama attacked the Supreme Court for its Citizens United decision. With the justices sitting in the well of the chamber, directly before him, he tactlessly chastised them for their decision. Of...

Quotes of the Day

Posted on February 05, 2010
Via Tyler Cowen, from Barking Up The Wrong Tree: "[P]itchers from the southern United States were more likely to hit batters in these situations, but primarily if the batter was White." Source: "It was a thought pitch": Personal, situational, and...

Avatar Not So Titanic?

Posted on February 05, 2010
So Avatar has passed Titanic as history's highest-grossing film, with worldwide ticket sales of $1.86 billion (story here and list here). Yeah, but we all recognize that ticket prices today are higher than in years gone by, making any such...

Monuments of West Chester, Pennsylvania

Posted on January 04, 2010
As I promised, I've taken a few photographs of my home town, West Chester, Pennsylvania. I've got a couple of photographs of the Union Solider Monument -- in Marshall Square Park. Whenever I think of a park in my mind's...

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