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The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On The Shorts

Posted on May 30, 2010
Fitch downgraded Spain?s long-term foreign and local currency ratings by one notch to AA+ from triple-A. According to the company: ?The downgrade reflects Fitch?s assessment that the process of adjustment to a lower level of private sector and external indebtedness...

The Problems of Intimate and Expressive Association

Posted on May 30, 2010
I noted in an earlier post my dissatisfaction with the categories of intimate and expressive association that the Supreme Court first announced in Roberts v. United States Jaycees. In this post, I briefly explain some of my concerns. They remain...

Advice to New Teachers

Posted on May 30, 2010
Insidehighereducation has a very nice brief essay by Elizabeth Parfitt on the challenges new teachers face. Lots of good wisdom in there, which it's helpful for veterans to remind ourselves of as well.

The Antebellum Fence

Posted on May 29, 2010
Time for a couple of pictures of fences. First ,a few from my last visit to Athens, Georgia. The fence around the historic UGA campus: Then a fence around Thomas Cobb's cemetery plot. And then there's the fence in antebellum...

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Who do you want to bet with? A tenured skiing professor, or me?

Posted on May 29, 2010
Sachs is much more positive about the ability to bring PIIGS deficits under control and avoid restructuring than other commenters. Unfortunately, he doesn't elaborate on the reasons for such optimism. The real reason I posted this, though, is because of...

More How Would Greece Restructure Now?

Posted on May 29, 2010
Yesterday, in How Would Greece Restructure Now?, I asked Lee Buchheit (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton) to summarize the possible impact of the European Central Bank?s recent ?26.5bn government bond purchases on the possibility and mechanics of a Greek debt...

Baseball Trivia

Posted on May 29, 2010
Prompted by this post from earlier this week: Name the pair of brothers, each of whom is a member of baseball's Hall of Fame. Pictured: Card #5 in the Topps 1988 set, featuring knucklers Phil and Joe Niekro. Phil is...

Latest law review?

Posted on May 29, 2010
So, have you noticed that some student-run law reviews tend to run, um, a little behind? I was just mentioning to someone that an article of mine that was supposed to come out in the summer of 2009 has still...

Law Prof Peter Erlinder Arrested in Kigali

Posted on May 28, 2010
William Mitchell Law Prof Peter Erlinder has been arrested in Kigali on charges of denying the Rwandan genocide. Erlinder is well known for defense work at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and was in Kigali representing Victoire Ingabire, a...

Death of Loyola Law Dean Brian Bromberger

Posted on May 28, 2010
Brian Bromberger, who in recent months announced that he would be retiring this summer as dean of the law school at Loyola University New Orleans, passed away last night. Bromberger, whose academic career began in the 1960s, had taught at...

Hey, Dean. What Law School Course Was The Hardest For You?

Posted on May 28, 2010
"I never enjoyed income tax. Anyway, I use TurboTax now, so who cares? Just kidding!" "Procedure." "Estates and trusts." "Tax." "Commercial Law - UCC." "Property (which is why I teach it. ???)." "None of them posed any problems." These were...

Global Free Speech Update United

Posted on May 28, 2010
Global Free Speech Update United States: The Thomas More Law Center filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Freedom Defense Initiative against a Detroit transportation authority that refused to run an anti-Muslim ad on city buses. Richard Thompson, president...

How Would Greece Restructure Now?

Posted on May 28, 2010
A few weeks ago, we asked when Greece would restructure and noted that the emerging consensus seems to be that they will eventually have to do so. The real question is ?when?? After that, I provided the ?how,? as explained...

Across the Generations

Posted on May 28, 2010
Long-time (and close) followers of the faculty lounge may recall that one of my great interests is families across several generations -- the Winthrops, the Pynchons, the Adamses,Francis Daniel Pastorius to ... Jaco Pastorius, and Theodore Dwight Sedgwick to Kyra...

The Top Ten Academic Films

Posted on May 28, 2010
Lavelle Porter, writing for the CUNY Graduate Center Advocate, has authored The University On Screen: The Top 10 Academic Films. In his opening remarks, Porter states: "In this par­tic­u­lar list I eval­u­ate some films that in some way try to...

Call For Papers

Posted on May 27, 2010
The Center For Law, Economics And Finance At The George Washington University Law School Inaugural Junior Faculty Business And Financial Law Workshop And Junior Faculty Scholarship Prizes Sponsored by Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP The Center for Law, Economics and...

New Law Dean at Mercer

Posted on May 27, 2010
Story here.

Georgia Law Professor Gabriel Wilner: 1938 - 2010

Posted on May 27, 2010
Gabriel M. Wilner (pictured), who joined the Georgia law faculty in 1973, recently died. Professor Wilner was the Charles H. Kirbo Professor of International Law and directed the law school's program in graduate legal studies. His areas of expertise included...

New York Law Nabs $20 Million Gift

Posted on May 27, 2010
New York Law School announced on Wednesday that it had received a $20 million gift from the Starr Foundation. According to this story: The donation has been given in the name of The Starr Foundation Chairman Maurice Greenberg, an alumnus...

The American Scholar, 2010 Edition

Posted on May 26, 2010
Sticking my head up from working on University, Court, and Slave for a moment to bring you some exciting news.... I've been talking a lot about college literary addresses in the pre-Civil War era this spring (and here and here)....

Should Greece Bail Out Germany?

Posted on May 26, 2010
That?s the tongue in cheek question posed by Wolfgang Münchau yesterday, in a column that raises some pointed questions about the European debt crisis. Is the eurozone insolvent? In the past few weeks, we have all focused on the solvency...

My so-called right to procreate

Posted on May 26, 2010
My seminar papers seem to be giving me much fodder for thought this year. I posted earlier about mandatory cesarean sections, insipired by one student's paper topic. Another student of mine has written a very interesting paper about restrictions on...

Haiti's Resettlement Policy

Posted on May 26, 2010
I'm back from Haiti where the situation is still apocalyptic yet somehow more dire than it was a month ago. Humanitarian aid in most of the camps we visited stopped two months ago. In those where aid is being provided,...

Extra, Extra, Read All About It!

Posted on May 26, 2010
I hope I am not alone in feeling a bit of anxiety over whether what I write is novel or interesting. That is certainly the case with scholarship, but it feels amplified with this blogging experience, where yesterday?s news really...

Aaron (Hank and Tommie), Brett (George and Ken), Conigliaro (Billy and Tony), Etc.: Sibling Behavior On The Diamond

Posted on May 26, 2010
Readers with an interest in both baseball and sibling behavior may find interesting a recent article entitled Birth Order and Risk Taking in Athletics: A Meta-Analysis and Study of Major League Baseball, published in the current issue of Personality and...

Blawg Friends Happy Hour

Posted on May 26, 2010
Thanks to Dan Markel, Prawfsblawg will be having a happy hour with friends from other blogs and law schools this coming Thursday in Chicago. (Perhaps some other Loungers will be in attendance? Sadly, I?ll have to miss the festivities this...

Northern Kentucky Law Seeks Visitor

Posted on May 26, 2010
Northern Kentucky University ? Salmon P. Chase College of Law, which is located just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, may need a visiting faculty member for the fall 2010 semester. They would need someone willing to teach Family Law and one...

Dean Once, Twice, Thrice

Posted on May 25, 2010
As Dan announced last week, our Lounge guest Richard Gershon will become the next law dean at the University of Mississippi in a few weeks. This will be Richard's third deanship, following Texas Wesleyan and Charleston. This got me wondering...

Loan Repayment News: Duke Law Juices Up LRAP

Posted on May 25, 2010
I haven't followed the state of Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAP) around the country, but Duke has definitely amped up its program to address the economy (and to encourage grads to take a job, even if it doesn't pay that...

Home security systems and crime

Posted on May 24, 2010
I had a briefly harrowing experience today, when I got a call on my cell phone from ADT security services, telling me that the security alarm on my house had been going off. My entire family is currently out of...

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