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Deans on Film

Posted on September 04, 2009
I am honored and delighted to join The Faculty Lounge this month. During my stint as a guest, I will focus primarily on "Law and Popular Culture" topics. The following issue is freshest on my mind because it took place...

Tickers, Trackers, and . . . Tamils? Today in 1930

Posted on September 03, 2009
I couldn?t think of a better word beginning with ?T? to represent India, so that will have to do. Regular readers know that I am a fan of the blog, News From 1930, which provides a daily news summary based...

Welcome Guest Blogger Kelly Anders

Posted on September 03, 2009
We're very pleased to welcome Kelly Anders as a guest blogger here at the Lounge. Kelly is the Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Washburn University School of Law. She also directs Washburn's externship program and teaches Art Law. (Is...

AALS Faculty Recruitment: "I Wish I'd Known That BEFORE The Conference!"

Posted on September 03, 2009
Nine weeks from today the AALS will kick off its annual Faculty Recruitment Conference. The AALS released its first distribution of FAR forms a few weeks ago, and the second distribution is scheduled for release today. Faculty appointments committees are...

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General vs Specialty Journals

Posted on September 02, 2009
A couple of people commented with respect to a previous thread that they had received offers from both general and specialty journals during this submission season. Some people also blogged about how confusing the different sets of rankings are when....

What's In Your 'Sent' Box?

Posted on September 02, 2009
Five Wisconsin teachers are objecting to the release of personal e-mails they sent using the school's computer pursuant to a citizen's public records request. The school district disclosed the e-mails after concluding that they were "records" under the applicable statute...

"Of Pedagogical Epiphanies ..."

Posted on September 02, 2009
Suffolk law professor Jeff Lipshaw (pictured) posted "Of Pedagogical Epiphanies and the "On Call" List - Will the Deontological Prevail Over the Consequential in Class Participation?" yesterday at the Legal Profession Blog (where he is one of the founding contributors)...

Mid-week Links

Posted on September 02, 2009
The newest thing in hip hop culture? White Scottish law professor reading rap lyrics with careful enunciation. (The Public Domain). Brian Leiter on Information and Advice for Persons Interested in Teaching Law. Tom Bell on How Top Ranked Law Schools....

Fear The Robots. Fear The Robot Love.

Posted on September 01, 2009
From the News & Observer (via boingboing, Andrew Sullivan). Remember this statement from David Gibbs III at an anti-gay marriage rally in Raleigh, North Carolina this spring? (Gibbs) told rally participants gay marriage would "open the door to unusual marriage...

Cloud computing? Maybe not . . .

Posted on September 01, 2009
The "next big thing" in Internet applications is called "cloud computing" (there's even a Cloud Computing Journal). The idea is rather simple: you (the user) carry around a computer that has a web browser on it. Using the web browser,...

The Case of the Framed Fly-Fisher?

Posted on September 01, 2009
It isn't everyday that fly fishing plays a role in a criminal investigation and appellate court decision. So imagine my glee upon reading the (sadly unpublished) opinion in Miller v. Spiers, 2009 WL 2219256 (10th Cir. July 27, 2009), a...

Vermont Debuts 'Hubby Hubby' . . . And Marriage Equality

Posted on September 01, 2009
Beginning today, same sex couples can marry in Vermont and to celebrate, during the month of September, Ben & Jerry's will be selling pints of their enormously popular "Chubby Hubby" under its new name "Hubby Hubby." From the website: In...

Montana Supreme Court to hear Right to Assisted Suicide Case

Posted on September 01, 2009
Tomorrow, the Montana Supreme Court will hear argument in Baxter v. Montana, DA 09-0051, a case in which it is claimed that the Montana Constitution secures the right of a person to the aid of a physician in committing suicide....

Online Privacy in Israel

Posted on September 01, 2009
For those interested in reading and writing in the area of online privacy, Michael Birnhack and Niva Elkin-Koren recently posted an article on SSRN that details their study of compliance by Israeli websites with Israeli privacy laws. The study is...

New Laws in Texas

Posted on September 01, 2009
Many new laws take effect in Texas today (September 1). Here are a few (paraphrasing; consult statute for actual language): Drivers and passengers, regardless of age and seat location, must wear a seat belt (some exceptions). Drivers under the age...

A Self-Referential Book Review: On Blogs and Blogging

Posted on August 31, 2009
At the risk of sounding like a coffee table book about coffee tables in the shape of a coffee table... I have just completed Scott Rosenberg's new book, Say Everything. If you have the time, it's a really interesting history...

That Post Was Written By A Lawyer?! No Wonder It Doesn't Make Any Sense

Posted on August 31, 2009
In what one hopes is an unusual combination, a musician, the Zodiac Killer, and the Tennessee bar association cross paths on the message board of Goner Records, a record store in Memphis, Tennessee.

A New Literary History of America

Posted on August 31, 2009
Last week brought a wonderful volume that I've been eagerly awaiting all summer: Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors' A New Literary History of America. The book has about 250 essays on American literary history -- organized around dates (like 1692,...

Preparing To Be A Law Professor: A List Of Faculty Fellowships

Posted on August 31, 2009
One of the new realities of law faculty hiring is that appointments committees increasingly tilt toward candidates with advanced degrees, a fellowship/VAP experience, or both. But where do you get that fellowship or VAP experience? The answer from Paul Caron...

The New School Year and Subconscious Copyright Infringement?

Posted on August 31, 2009
Following Al's musings on pre-Civil War curricula in honor of the new school year, I thought I'd share my own musings as my little 4 year old trudged off to pre-school for the first time this morning. He had informed...

Supersize Me: Too Big To Fail, and Getting Bigger

Posted on August 31, 2009
From the Washington Post: The crisis may be turning out very well for many of the behemoths that dominate U.S. finance. A series of federally arranged mergers safely landed troubled banks on the decks of more stable firms. And it...

What did students study in Southern Colleges before the Civil War?

Posted on August 31, 2009
With classes starting today and curriculum on my mind, I thought I'd talk a little bit about the curriculum of the antebellum southern college. In algebra class, they sometimes studied how terrible Yankees were. Take several examples from the math...

Yet Another Politician's Thesis

Posted on August 30, 2009
I've been following now for some years the periodic stories about politicians' writings when they were in college or law school. Hillary Clinton's Wellesley College thesis on Saul Alinsky got some attention a few years back. We're heard about Barack....

More On Atheist Pet Rescues After the Rapture

Posted on August 30, 2009
Following up on last week?s post, Let Atheists (or Jews or Muslims) Care For Your Pets After the Rapture, the news video clip below discusses the rapture industry, including an interview with the head of Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, one of...

Weekend Links

Posted on August 29, 2009
Oh, that kind of ?stimulus package!? (New York Post) More on the economists, this time Justin Wolfers (Freakonomics), versus Posner versus Romer (The Atlantic). Prior Lounge coverage: Conversations About Richard Posner And The People He Fights With, and More Conversations...

Fear and Loathing Come to Greensboro

Posted on August 28, 2009
This afternoon, passing through the law school lobby on my way to teach Civil Procedure, I was distracted by the roar of motorcycles. A biker caravan passing down Greene Street might not have attracted much notice, but for the fact...

Global Free Speech Update Argentina:

Posted on August 28, 2009
Global Free Speech Update Argentina: President Christina Frenandez is pushing a media reform bill that would give state broadcasters and non-profits organizations a better opportunity to compete with private companies for broadcast space. The bill would also limit the total...

Failures, Funds, and the FDIC

Posted on August 28, 2009
On Wednesday, the FDIC released new rules (available in PDF here) regarding private equity acquisition of failed banking institutions. From the New York Times: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation board on Wednesday imposed tough new restrictions on private equity firms...

Sorry, No Direction Home. Bob Dylan To Become GPS Voice?

Posted on August 27, 2009
Simply because it is hard to imagine a more entertaining way to find Highway 61, and because life is truly stranger than fiction, I offer for your consideration this story indicating that Bob Dylan is negotiating with a couple of...

Hal Turner's 'Shock-Jock Defense'

Posted on August 27, 2009
The complaint in US v. Turner is available here. In it, the FBI alleges that Hal Turner, the right-wing shock-jock, internet blogger, and one-time FBI informant, threatened to assault and murder three federal judges because of an anti-gun rights ruling...

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