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Public Accommodations and Private Clubs

Posted on May 24, 2010
Rand Paul caused a stir last week in comments he made about Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As described by the New York Times, Paul contended ?that he supported the sections of the Civil Rights Act...

Law Review Survey: Your Input Requested!

Posted on May 24, 2010
From an email I received last week from North Dakota psychology professor Richard Wise and LSU law professors Lucy McGough and James Bowers (reprinted with Richard's permission):For the last several decades, there has been much controversy and discussion about how...

Women and Careers ... and Parenthood

Posted on May 23, 2010
With thanks to my colleague, Jessica Berg, for passing this along to me, I'm sure others found this NY Times article interesting, if depressing. It compares the first women on the Supreme Court with the more recent appointments in terms...

Austerity And "Punishing The Shorts"

Posted on May 23, 2010
From the New York Times: PARIS ? Across Western Europe, the ?lifestyle superpower,? the assumptions and gains of a lifetime are suddenly in doubt. The deficit crisis that threatens the euro has also undermined the sustainability of the European standard...

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Scalping The Dalai Lama

Posted on May 22, 2010
Via Al Roth, from The NY Times on Scalping World Peace, Outside Radio City: The appearance of the Dalai Lama at Radio City Music Hall has inspired a certain chant on the Avenue of the Americas. ?Tickets for the Dalai...

Baseball Trivia

Posted on May 22, 2010
Nolan Ryan is one of a handful of pitchers to throw a no-hitter in both the American League and the National League. Can you name any of the others? Pictured: Harvey Kuenn, card #25 in the 1954 Topps set. Kuenn...

Global Free Speech Update Pakistan:

Posted on May 21, 2010
Global Free Speech Update Pakistan: YouTube and Wikipedia join the growing list of internet sites (over 450 according to WaPo) blocked because of content deemed offensive to Islam. The crackdown started last week when Facebook was blocked after users were...

Will the War on Terror Save Bivens?

Posted on May 21, 2010
The latest development in the Bivens saga occurred when the government filed its brief in opposition to cert. in Arar v. Ashcroft (09-923). The Bivens doctrine--well known to Federal Courts geeks--permits constitutional tort actions against federal officials, without any statutory...

Arizona's Controversial Immigration Law

Posted on May 21, 2010
Houston law prof David Crump (pictured) offers some thoughts on Arizona's controversial immigration law in this editorial from today's local newspaper.

We are the (godless) World

Posted on May 21, 2010
A few months back, Eric called our attention to the remake of "We Are the World." Like Eric, I was pretty clueless about who most of the people were singing the new version. Eric told us that he would get...

Movie Box-Office Receipts and the Futures Market

Posted on May 21, 2010
I think I found a news story that will provide Kim (and others with an interest in creative financing methods) with the genesis of a law review article or two.

Richard Gershon Named Dean At Ole Miss Law

Posted on May 21, 2010
The University of Mississippi has selected Richard Gershon, the former dean of the Charleston School of Law and Texas Wesleyan, as its new law school dean. As many of you know, Richard has been a guest blogger here at the...

What Does It Take To Graduate Magna Cum Laude From Law School?

Posted on May 21, 2010
Legal Geekery has posted a great chart setting out the standards used by 68 schools in assessing whether to give students the honors cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude. Assuming the info is accurate (and it is...

US News Rankings Chess: Bob Morse Makes His Next Move

Posted on May 21, 2010
Last week, Paul Caron suggested that 16 law schools committed US News ranking malpractice for failing to properly game the magazine's employment data analysis. That got the attention of Bob Morse, the rankings guru at US News. He responded here....

Welcome to George Brown, Guest Blogger

Posted on May 20, 2010
We are delighted to have George Brown, Boston College Law School, blogging with us for a while. I spent three delightful years visiting at BC in the early part of this decade and thus got to know George as the...

The Latest on Simkins Dormitory at UT

Posted on May 20, 2010
The Austin American Statesman has a lengthy article on the growing controversy over the William Simkins dormitory on UT's campus. Tom Russell's recent paper has brought attention to the dormitory, named for a long-time UT professor. Simkins was -- among...

Louisiana Law School Clinic Restrictions Shelved In Committee

Posted on May 20, 2010
I've previously blogged about new proposals to signficantly limit the practice of student law clinics in Louisiana. The chemical and oil industries had pushed legislators to prohibit law school clinics from suing government agencies, seeking damages from private individuals and...

Repo Madness

Posted on May 20, 2010
Readers with an interest in Sadistic Secured Transactions (and who out there doesn't have a soft spot for Article 9?) may enjoy this four-minute news report on high-end repos.

Cover Art and Book Content

Posted on May 20, 2010
Those of us who've used the Norton Anthology of American Literature will recognize Asher Durand's Kindred Spirits (now owned by Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Art Museum), which depicts the landscape artist Thomas Cole and the poet (and lawyer) William Cullen...

Patrick Shin On Liability for Unconscious Discrimination

Posted on May 19, 2010
Lounge readers, particularly those working in the fields of discrimination and employment law, are probably already familiar with the research on ?implicit? or unconscious bias. Many will recall, for example, the heated debates a few years back over Implicit Association...

Stanley Fish and Kittens: Too Quick and Not Dirty Enough

Posted on May 18, 2010
Three weeks ago, Stanley Fish?s essay ?The First Amendment and Kittens? reflected on the Supreme Court?s recent decision in United States v. Stevens (invalidating a federal statute targeting animal cruelty videos) and the meaning of Stevens in a larger First...

Tough Talk In Alabama

Posted on May 18, 2010
Political TV ads in Alabama are serious business this year. Below, I've linked to three of note. The first is Tim James' ad demanding that all drivers license exams be administered in English. The second is an attack ad on...

BYU Law Professor Carl Hawkins: 1926 - 2010

Posted on May 18, 2010
BYU Law Professor Carl Hawkins recently passed away at the age of 84. His list of academic accomplishments is impressive: a Coif grad from Northwestern (and editor in chief of its law review), a Bigelow Fellow at Chicago, and judicial...

Lounge Guest Experts On The European Crisis

Posted on May 17, 2010
As regular readers know, we?ve been covering the building European crisis here at the Lounge since January, and have at times enlisted the help of a great group of sovereign debt experts to write guest posts on particular issues of...

Supreme Court Bars Juvenile LWOP In Non-Homicides; Thomas Gives Tentative OK To Executing First Graders

Posted on May 17, 2010
In another razor-thin 5-4 decision (with Roberts concurring in the outcome) about kids who commit serious crimes, the Supreme Court struck down a sentence of life without parole (LWOP) in the case of a Florida boy - Terrance Graham -...

What Is US News Law School Ranking Malpractice?

Posted on May 17, 2010
If you're a law school with lousy numbers for students employed at graduation, what do you do? Do you admit your problems to US News, or simply remain silent? How would it affect your decisioin if you knew that US...

New Law Review Alert: Columbia Journal Of Race And Law

Posted on May 17, 2010
This just in from the folks at a new law review, the Columbia Journal of Race and Law: The Columbia Journal of Race and Law (CJRL) is now accepting submissions of articles, essays and other original works for possible publication...

What Religion Is Your Egg?

Posted on May 16, 2010
Israel has always posed many interesting issues relating to oocyte donation. Now, according to the WSJ, things are heating up even more. For example, under current Israeli law, only women already undergoing fertility treatments can donate their eggs, leading to...

Political Theory and Law

Posted on May 16, 2010
Al?s recent post highlighting Mary Bilder?s article on Madison as lawyer versus Madison as political theorist reminded me that the connections between these two enterprises are not always self-evident. Political theorists occasionally glaze over when I talk about ?the law,?...

Euro-TARP Love Fades

Posted on May 16, 2010
This should be another interesting week for Europe. On Friday, the euro fell to its lowest level in 18 months, world stock markets took a hit, and there has reportedly been a big sell-off in European periphery zone debt by...

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