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P& T Prep 101

Posted on June 23, 2009
While a number of us have started posting advice and information on the soon-to-be-in-full-swing fall hiring season, we should also spare a thought for those poor oft-forgotten-until-the-last-minute folks going up for promotion or tenure in the fall. So what are...

Visiting Professor List, Version 1.0

Posted on June 23, 2009
Thanks to everyone who submitted information. Please send updates and corrections to thefacultylounge@gmail.com. Many schools have not reported so please keep up the new tips. Thanks! Visiting Institutions are in bold, home institutions are in italics...

Obama Nominates Alito's Replacement

Posted on June 22, 2009
OK, so the title of the post is perhaps just a bit misleading. Maybe it should have read "Obama Nominates Alito's Replacement on the Third Circuit." But that phrasing was less likely to get the lefties salivating! On Friday, President...

Law Faculty Hiring And The Article Placement Timing Problem

Posted on June 22, 2009
A recurring challenge for candidates entering the AALS meat market relates to an unfortunate timing quirk. FAR biographical forms are due during the summer, a couple of months before the August law review submission cycle. Law school hiring committees then...

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Golf Trivia

Posted on June 22, 2009
With Lucas Glover's win earlier today at Bethpage, the following trivia question comes to mind: Name a multiple-time winner of the U.S. Open Golf Championship who attended a "tier one" law school.

DePaul Names Warren Wolfson Interim Dean. Associate Dean To Resign In Protest.

Posted on June 22, 2009
Today DePaul named 76 year old Illinois state appellate judge Warren Wolfson the interim dean of its law school. The university fired Dean Glen Weissenberger last week after he alerted the ABA accrediation committee that the University was not -...

Commerce Clause and Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders

Posted on June 22, 2009
The United States Supreme Court today granted certiorari in United States v. Comstock, 08-1224, in which the question presented is whether Congress had constitutional authority to enact 18 USC 4248. That section purports to give the federal government power to...

On Immoral Markets

Posted on June 22, 2009
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel presents the Reith lectures ? the topic, ?A New Citizenship? -- this month on the BBC. (HT: Al Roth via Tim Harford). You can listen to a podcast of the lectures (a series of four, of...

Congratulations to Robert Post and Yale Law School!

Posted on June 22, 2009
What great news that Robert Post is the new dean of Yale Law School! Many congratulations to Dean Post and to Yale, too. They're most foruntate to have one another. We'd been hearing these rumors for a while. I've been...

Posted on June 21, 2009

From the people who brought you KGC ...

Posted on June 21, 2009
After rebranding Kentucky Fried Chicken first as "KFC" and more recently "KGC" (for Kentucky GRILLED chicken), Yum! Brands Inc, the parent company of KFC and Taco Bell, is also moving towards a rebranding for Pizza Hut. Some restaurants will now...

Sunday Baseball News: Another Triple Crown

Posted on June 21, 2009
Inspired by co-blogger Tim Zinnecker's post on Yaz and other triple crown winners, I am moved to report that yesterday the Deer Isle-Stonington Mariners (the high school in my summer community) won the Maine state baseball championship for their class...

Live Sperm, Dead Donor . . . No Case

Posted on June 21, 2009
From the L.A. Times (June 18, 2009): Court denies benefits for girl conceived from dead father's sperm ?A 10-year-old Los Angeles girl conceived from the frozen sperm of a dead man will not receive his Social Security benefits, a U.S....

Global Free Speech Update Turkey:

Posted on June 20, 2009
Global Free Speech Update Turkey: Nadim Sener, author of "The Dink Murder and Intelligence Lies," faced anti-terrorism charges this week in an Istanbul court. Sener's book accuses law enforcement officials of negligence and a cover-up in failing to thwart the...

Baseball Trivia

Posted on June 20, 2009
I am the son of a potato farmer. I attended Notre Dame University. I was the last player to achieve one of baseball's rarest accomplishments. I was a first-ballot electee into MLB's hall of fame. Oh, and Tim Zinnecker's initials...

One Law Student's Extraordinary Summer Stipend

Posted on June 19, 2009
Every law school career planning office wants to help students find summer work. For many 1L's, a summer internship - albeit unpaid - is a good choice. So it was for Leo Wolpert, law student at UVa. He's doing a...

Clash At DePaul Law. Provost Sacks The Dean. Stay Tuned.

Posted on June 19, 2009
Brian Leiter and ATL are both reporting that DePaul Law Dean Glen Weissenberger has been ousted by university provost, Helmut Epp. From a quick and dirty review of available materials (available in more complete form from the blogs above), it...

Celebrity Drug Habits: Public or Private?

Posted on June 19, 2009
With thanks as usual to Patricia Sanchez Abril for drawing this case to my attention, I was intrigued by a small issue when reading the 2004 British House of Lords decision in the Naomi Campbell case. This case involved the...

Fathers Day

Posted on June 19, 2009
A big shout-out to fathers everywhere, as we honor you on Sunday. For many of us, our father is a hero, an inspiration, a teacher, a role model, a mentor, a friend. Long after our father may pass away, or...

Super Bowl Of Rock Redux: Birmingham Alabama Discovers 1977

Posted on June 19, 2009
I was taking a look at this weekend's line up at City Stages in Birmingham. Lynyrd Skynyrd (such as it is.) REO Speedwagon. 38 Special. Hey, wait!! This is sounding suspiciously like one of the most important musical events in...

Incentives And Institutions ? Why Stop With The Banks? (or, My Tenure's For Sale, Part II)

Posted on June 19, 2009
A few days ago, in My Tenure?s For Sale. How About Yours?, I blogged about the purported costs and benefits of tenure, and the extra salary I would demand in exchange for giving up tenure (not that my dean has...

Coffee and Parking: A Misunderstood Relation?

Posted on June 18, 2009
We've spoken before about the combination of beer and coffee. Now a new installment in the coffee series. This time it's about a thermos, coffee, and a parking space .... This seems like a little over-charging--and it's perhaps further evidence...

I Pay Dead People

Posted on June 18, 2009
Tom Coburn (pictured) is a U.S. Senator from Oklahama. (We may become more familiar with him in days to come, given his membership on the Senate Judiciary Committee.) His online biography states that his Senate priorities include ?reducing wasteful spending...

Law School Hiring: 2009 Faculty Appointments Committee Chairs

Posted on June 18, 2009
Dan Markel is doing his part to facilitate the law school faculty search process by compiling a list of faculty appointments committee chairs here. As I argued , a lateral candidate should do his or her best to make direct...

Wilkes Barre Law School Moving Ahead

Posted on June 18, 2009
Wilkes University's board of trustees is moving ahead with plans to open a law school, according to this story from the Times Leader. We've previously mentioned that they hired Loren D. Prescott from Widener Law School as their initial dean....

United States Senate Slavery Apology

Posted on June 18, 2009
Thanks to a pointer from Sally Greene, I learn this afternoon that the Senate has adopted a non-binding resolution that apologizes for slavery. The resolution passed via a voice vote. This follows on the heels of the Brown University's Steering...

More on Facebook and Friendship

Posted on June 18, 2009
Further to a post I made the other day about the nature of "friends" on Facebook being more like imaginary friends from childhood than real flesh and blood people, I noticed an interesting article online last night from Newsweek. In...

Judges and Personal Feelings

Posted on June 17, 2009
I know I'm probably a little behind the times on this one, but I saw in today's Philly Inquirer that Jeff Sessions is poised to give a speech decrying the use of "personal feelings" in judging. Because I am spending...

Becker And Posner On The Pay Czar

Posted on June 17, 2009
This week, Becker and Posner take on the Obama administration?s ?Pay Czar,? with predictably critical reactions. Posner, in particular, discusses an issue near and dear to my own heart (see here, here and here) -- trading floor compensation and compliance...

Sex Offender Registration (SORNA) And The Tenth Amendment

Posted on June 17, 2009
Doug Berman points to an interesting opinion from the Supreme Court of Missouri. It raises some complicated standing issues under the Tenth Amendment and begs the question of whether a state itself has an interest in enforcing state constitutional provisions...

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