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Students in Breckinridge County Spared Socialist Indoctriniation; Offered Salvation Instead

Posted on September 09, 2009
"Local control" is a big deal to school officials in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, which is why instead of allowing parents to opt their children out of the Obama speech earlier today, they required them to opt-in by providing written notice...

Oral Argument in Citizens United

Posted on September 09, 2009
Scotusblog has a summary and analysis of today's oral argument in Citizens United, which suggests that a majority of the Court is leaning strongly towards overturning Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and that portion of McConnell v. FEC which...

A "Not-To-Do" List

Posted on September 09, 2009
Busy professionals and academics often find solace and guidance in constructing "to-do" lists. However, it might be useful to think about a "not-to-do" list. On the Voir Dire Blog I have occasionally highlighted the blogging of Tim Ferris, author of....

Gratuitous, tenuously-law-related, musical post

Posted on September 09, 2009
Because I'm covering World Wide Volkswagen v. Woodson and Calder v. Jones in Civil Procedure this week, and because I'm a fan of old movies, I couldn't resist the temptation to show this clip of Shirley Jones in her movie...

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The Year of Living Electronically

Posted on September 09, 2009
There?s an interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the use of e-textbooks ? or the lack thereof. The article discusses the wariness of students, but I also can?t help but wonder about the potential drawbacks for authors,...

Mid-week Links

Posted on September 09, 2009
UCLA Law Dean Michael Schill to become dean at Chicago Law, effective January 1, 2010. Leiter gloats; Bainbridge mourns. (See Dan's post on this here). The Boston Globe reports that some professors are giving their courses a sexier name to...

Dean Michael Schill Leaves UCLA, Joins Chicago Law

Posted on September 09, 2009
As Brian Leiter now informs us, the University of Chicago Law School has selected UCLA Law dean Michael Schill to be its new dean. He replaces Saul Levmore, who will step down at the end of the year. Schill has...

Do The Right Thing ? So Long As It?s Free (Or, Sotomayor And The Value Of Diversity, Part II)

Posted on September 08, 2009
As I noted in my last post on this topic, Sotomayor, Diversity, And Group Dynamics: Why Do We Care? What Do We Know?, the concept of diversity has over the last generation become almost commonplace and taken-for-granted in discourses ranging...

Finding a Hippie Jurisprudence?

Posted on September 08, 2009
We're in the midst of classes; I'm teaching two huge lectures; I'm drowning in work. So no time for new posts. That means ... it's time for a classic. And after talking about State v. Shack in property last week,...

Catching My Eye

Posted on September 08, 2009
Two articles recently abstracted in the SSRN digests I receive weekly have caught my eye. The first is authored by cross-town friend and UH law prof Jim Hawkins (pictured) and is titled "Doctors as Bankers: Evidence from Fertility Markets." The...

Supreme Court Justices as Human Decision Makers

Posted on September 08, 2009
How do U.S. Supreme Court justices decide how to vote in cases? I would suggest that for all of the complex legal, strategic, and attitudinal models set forth by scholars, a reasonable response to this question would be to ask...

The Court Gets its Digs, and Paris Gets Her Day in Court

Posted on September 07, 2009
If you've not been following it (and why would you be), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision last week in Paris Hilton v. Hallmark Cards, [pdf] no. 08-55443 (August 31, 2009). The suit involves a card, produced...

Parental Discretion Advised

Posted on September 07, 2009
Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Back to School Event Arlington, Virginia September 8, 2009 The President: Hello everyone ? how?s everybody doing today? I?m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we?ve got students tuning...

Business Ethics from the Shark Tank

Posted on September 07, 2009
I guess I have to start this post by admitting that I am getting a little hooked on ABC's new series, Shark Tank, modelled (I assume) on the BBC's Dragons' Den. This is the reality show where would-be entrepreneurs try...

"Law and Order SVU" and the Ranking of Law Reviews

Posted on September 07, 2009
Last night I watched a rerun of Law and Order SVU -- about someone who faked multiple personality disorder to get away with killing her parents (she was found not guilty by reason of insanity -- or something like that)....

Michael Moore: Capitalism is Evil

Posted on September 07, 2009
That's the message of Michael Moore's new film. Hmmm. Moore has earned gross box office receipts of close to $173 million on his films to date. Need I say more?

Countdown to Obama

Posted on September 07, 2009
Well, it's Monday. We're one day closer to what Johathan Turley aptly describes as: Obama?s brain-washing, soul-crushing, communist-loving subliminal-laced speech to our children. By Wednesday, our schools will be little more than communes with kids calling for redistribution of wealth...

A potential opportunity for recent (unemployed) law graduates

Posted on September 07, 2009
Recent unemployed law graduates or 3rd year law students who are working to find a job in this tough market will likely need to think outside of the box in order to find gainful employment. This can take many forms...

Do Museums Still Need Objects?

Posted on September 07, 2009
Steven Conn's Do Museums Still Need Objects, which will be published next month by Penn Press, is yet another book I want to read. I'll pick up a copy when I'm in Philly for the Pastorius conference next month. In...

Understanding the Difference Between Men and Women (in Corporate Law)

Posted on September 07, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am in the office working on an article as we are officially off today at the University of Florida for Labor Day. This semester I am teaching corporate law and have a gender breakdown...

Sotomayor, Diversity, And Group Dynamics: Why Do We Care? What Do We Know?

Posted on September 07, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor arrives at the Court this week for a special session, capping off a long and often heated debate about her qualifications, her ideology, and her potential impact on the Court. This latter point, of course, has included many...

"Blame it on the Muslims . . . no, wait, it's the Jews." Actually, the problem is the prosecutor.

Posted on September 06, 2009
Remember back in 2006 when a Dutch newspaper published a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb that was about to explode? Neither the cartoonist nor the newspaper were investigted for inciting hatred under Denmark's...

Some advice and a gift for recent (unemployed) law graduates

Posted on September 06, 2009
First, I'd like to thank the editors at Faculty Lounge for inviting me to guest blog. I've always enjoyed this blog and I am honored to be a guest blogger. I plan to offer a variety of posts on topics...

Student Reaction to UC Faculty Walkout: Not Good

Posted on September 06, 2009
Fellow Faculty Lounger Kim Krawiec posted on 9/5 links to talk about a UC Faculty walkout concerning mandated furloughs. I thought readers might be interested in this post on the Berkeley Law student blog Nuts and Boalts. Self- indulgent might...

Welcome Guest Blogger Jeff Yates

Posted on September 06, 2009
We're pleased to welcome Jeff Gates as a guest here at the Lounge. Jeff is a professor of political science at Binghamton University (aka SUNY Binghamton). Jeff moved to Binghamton in 2008, after serving as an associate professor in the...

Weekend Links

Posted on September 06, 2009
Alex Tabarrok, Sally Satel, and Frank Delmonico on Putting A Price On Organ Donation. (Al Roth) Also via Al Roth: The current issue of the American Journal of Transplantation contains a survey of the ASTS membership, which finds that a...

The Drama Returns: UC Prof Walkouts Planned

Posted on September 05, 2009
Regular Lounge readers should be well-versed by now in the University of California?s woes, since we covered it here, here, here, and here. Now the drama continues as professors gear up for a walkout during the first day of class...

Baseball Trivia: Nicknames

Posted on September 05, 2009
Identify these members of baseball's hall of fame by their nicknames: Whitey. Pudge. Yaz. Sparky. Yogi. Dizzy. Catfish. Too easy, right? Edward "Whitey" Ford (aka "The Chairman of the Board"). Carlton "Pudge" Fisk. Carl "Yaz" Yastrzemski. George "Sparky" Anderson...

Paying it Forward in the Legal Academy

Posted on September 04, 2009
In recent years, a number of senior colleagues - who I won't name here for fear of embarrassing them - have helped me out in the professional context by both agreeing to serve as references for hiring, promotion, tenure, fellowships...

The web of blog affiliations

Posted on September 04, 2009
Having imbibed a great deal of Pierre Bourdieu during my graduate study in Sociology, I have a reflexivity reflex that some might regard as excessive. During my two forays into the AALS meat market, I couldn't help regarding the experience...

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