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Illinois Law Deans, Past And Present, Speak Out On Admissions Corruption

Posted on June 30, 2009
The University of Illinois admissions scandal, documented everwhere from Leiter's Law School Reports, to TaxProf, from ATL to WSJ Law Blog continues to reverberate. Now the past and present dean are speaking out, each with their own goal. Former Dean...

Villanova Law Dean Mark Sargent Resigns

Posted on June 30, 2009
Yesterday, Villanova Law School Dean Mark Sargent resigned his position. According to the information we've received, he stated that he stepped down for personal and medical reasons. Professor Doris Brogan, who has been the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at...

Beautiful . . .

Posted on June 30, 2009
More laughs herre.

Sunny Samaritans or Entrepreneurs? New York Allows Egg Donor Payments For Stem Cell Research

Posted on June 29, 2009
In a sharp divergence from the guidelines of some scientific organizations and the laws of other states, such as California, which forbid such payments, New York last week became the first state to allow taxpayer-funded researchers to pay women for...

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Two Stats From The Most Recent Season of Manuscript Submissions

Posted on June 29, 2009
I submitted two articles to numerous journals earlier this year in March/April using the Expresso service. Two statistics: Percentage of journals that took action triggering the ?confirmation of receipt? response at my Expresso account: 39%. Percentage of journals that have...

Legal Skills In Doctrinal Classrooms

Posted on June 29, 2009
They're talking about the value of practice skills to the law school curriculum over at the Conglomerate. Here's my take on it: Though I'm a doctrinal prof fond of critical theory, I side with those who think that US law...

Like New Confederate Cash Found in Alabama Courthouse

Posted on June 29, 2009
Now who says that no one cares about nineteenth-century southern legal history? According to the AP, $493 in confederate currency was found in a Morgan County [Alabama] court file containing documents about the estate of slave owner Riley S. Davis,...

Justices Rule for Firefighters in New Haven Bias Case

Posted on June 29, 2009
The NYT reports that the Supreme Court has decided in favor (5-4) of the white firefighters in the New Haven bias case, where the city threw out the results of a promotion exam to avoid a lawsuit. The exam resulted...

Demotivational Messages for These Troubled Economic Times

Posted on June 29, 2009
My brother just alerted me to a series of "demotivational posters" available online from Despair, Inc. While my technological prowess is failing me, and I'm having trouble downloading the images, I'll set out some of my favorite taglines below and...

Brown on Racial Aspects of Subprime Lending

Posted on June 28, 2009
My colleauge Carol Brown has a new paper, Intent and Empirics: Race to the Subprime, up on ssrn, which turns to FHA filings to dissect the racial disparities in subprime lending. She links that empirical evidence with qualitative evidence of...

The UCC Goes To Prison

Posted on June 27, 2009
Tim's dry wit makes the UCC seem far more appealing than I remember if from law school, and now a recent federal appeals decision makes me realize that I've got to start integrating more of the code into my First...

How to Make Americans Save More? Get Rid of the Women.

Posted on June 27, 2009
Much has been made during the recent economic crisis of the vast difference in household savings rates between the United States and China. The difference has led to the somewhat incongruous outcome of massive lending from an emerging economy to...

Michael Jackson's Will

Posted on June 26, 2009
In case you didn't know, or are pretending not to, Michael Jackson, who was a singer of popular music, died yesterday. Fans worldwide have mourned the death of the musical superstar, and news of the death clogged the internet yesterday....

More on the Beyond Text conference at the University of Edinburgh

Posted on June 26, 2009
Here's the conference schedule from last weekend: Saturday 20 June ? Theoretical Perspectives Opening Panel ? Zenon Bankowski, The Space to See ? Maksymilian Del Mar, Breaking the Spell: The Education of Attention and Encounter in Law Schools and Law...

Admissions At Illinois: Corrupt Pols Meet Snarky Law Dean

Posted on June 26, 2009
News is exploding out of Champaign-Urbana in the last day or so as a series of admissions-related emails were just released by the University of Illinois. The state's rough and tumble political community appears to have targeted the U of...

Packing the Court

Posted on June 26, 2009
Publisher Penguin Press is releasing a new book on the United States Supreme Court this month titled Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court. Information on the book is available here,...

Why June drives your dean crazy

Posted on June 25, 2009
First of all, thanks to Al and Dan for inviting me to sit in the Faculty Lounge. It?s a great pleasure to me to join the community. For faculty members, June is usually a wonderful month. Grades are turned in...

American Financial Scandals are Boring

Posted on June 25, 2009
Forget Bernie Madoff. Meet James Amburn, 56, a financial advisor who runs the investment firm Digitalglobalnet, who was kidnapped, beaten, and tortured by four middle-age investors after Mr. Amburn lost £2 million of their savings in Florida real estate investments...

Supreme Court Finds Strip Search Unconstitutional

Posted on June 25, 2009
This morning the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in the so-called strip search case, Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding, finding that the search violated the student's 4th Amendment rights. The opinion is available here.

More Gladwell Brainteasers

Posted on June 25, 2009
So I've just finished reading "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell. Here's a puzzle from page 159 for readers' amusement... "Suppose I give you four cards labeled with the letters A and D and with the numerals 3 and 6....

Faculty Salary Data From Twenty State Universities

Posted on June 24, 2009
Paul Caron recently noted that faculty salaries from Illinois state universities - including the law schools at Illinois, Southern Illinois, and Northern Illinois - are here. I've now added this link to my prior post, which provides links to sources....

FAR and Away!

Posted on June 24, 2009
Recent posts here and elsewhere have started to address the topic of faculty hiring and the upcoming AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference. For the candidate who will be attending the Conference for the first time, helpful information is only a click...

Texas Governor Perry Approves New State Law School

Posted on June 24, 2009
Dallas is getting a new law school. After much waiting and watching, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed new legislation authorizing and funding the creation of a new law school at the University of North Texas. UNT Law is expected to...

Virginia's Ban on Partial Birth Abortion Upheld

Posted on June 24, 2009
The Fourth Circuit issued its en banc opinion earlier today in the case of Richmond Medical Center for Women v. Herring. Readers can find the opinion here, with a nice summary here.

Nothing like Edinburgh in the summer (the Beyond Text conference at the University of Edinburgh)

Posted on June 24, 2009
I just returned (hello, jet lag!) from the Beyond Text in Legal Education conference at the University of Edinburgh, and it was a marvelous reunion. (The first part of the conference was in December 2008, and if you want to...

When It Comes To Law Faculty, We?re All Post-Modernists (Or, My Tenure Is For Sale: Part III)

Posted on June 24, 2009
A few days ago, I argued that, even assuming that the costs of the tenure system outweighed any benefits, law schools would derive few benefits from abolishing tenure. Most schools show little willingness to implement less extreme measures designed to...

Visiting Assistant Professor List (VAP) 2009-2010

Posted on June 24, 2009
Thanks for all those who submitted information. Updates and corrections should be emailed to thefacultylounge@gmail.com, with a subject line of "VAP Tip." Thanks! Visiting Assistant Professors are one or two year fellowships for new scholars looking to enter the teaching...

Welcome Eric Chiapinelli To The Lounge

Posted on June 24, 2009
We're very pleased to welcome Dean Eric Chiapinelli, from Creighton University School of Law, as a guest blogger here at the Faculty Lounge. Eric received his BA from Claremont McKenna and his JD from Columbia University. Prior to becoming dean...

Rogue Hedge Funds?

Posted on June 23, 2009
The rogue trader story is one that is now all too familiar. A trader appears to be making phenomenal profits, garnering respect, high bonuses, and power within the financial institution. Eventually, it is revealed that the profits are illusory, the...

The Angry Student

Posted on June 23, 2009
Now that exam season has ended, it is now time for grade conferences. As expected, there are many students that are surprised by the grade on their exam or paper, and would like to talk about it. Entirely fair. We...

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