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Why Today I Joined Twitter

Posted on June 17, 2009
Twitter's about the only way now that protesters inside Iran can funnel news to the outside. And though there's a real danger facing those who do, you can make it harder for authorities to find them. From Reunify Gally: Do...

Continental Airlines Loses Kid; Parent Gains Silver Elite Status

Posted on June 17, 2009
Continental Airlines, which one study ranked as #5 for handling luggage, appears to have particular trouble with misplaced child passengers. This weekend was particularly problematic for the airline, according to press accounts: In one case, an 8-year-old Texas girl wound...

Harvard Board of Overseers Election Results

Posted on June 17, 2009
This seems like a lot of inside baseball, but those following Harvey Silvergate's attempt to get on the Harvard Board of Overseers will be interested in knowing that his petition candidacy was unsucccessful. From the Crimson: Lawyer Morgan Chu, cardiologist...

Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorism?

Posted on June 17, 2009
(A) Attacking the Pentagon (B) IEDs (C) Hate crimes against racial groups (D) Protests "D" is the correct answer, at least according to folks over at the Defense Department who include the question on a written routine training exam. Good...

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Law School Centers

Posted on June 17, 2009
I posted a while back when I was visiting at Concurring Opinions about the role of academic Centers within the law school enterprise. That post didn't generate a lot of discussion, but I'd really be interested in whether anyone at...

Remarks from the Nominee

Posted on June 16, 2009
Many thanks to President Filler for nominating me to an open position at The Faculty Lounge. No doubt President Filler considered many remarkable candidates for this vacancy. Critics will wail that I received this appointment solely because of my diversity...

Stigma? Laterals In The AALS Law Faculty Recruitment Directory

Posted on June 16, 2009
Brian Leiter has a post up posing the recurring question of whether a lateral move candidate ought to sign up up for the AALS faculty recruiting conference registry. My co-blogger Tim commented in favor of using the book. When I...

Democracy rising

Posted on June 16, 2009
. . . what a beautiful sound Kathleen Bergin

My Tenure's For Sale. How About Yours?

Posted on June 16, 2009
What?s the minimum that you would accept to give up tenure? Steve Levitt?s asking price is only $15,000, on the rationale that ?the value of tenure is inversely related to how good you are. If you are way over the...

Visiting The Lounge

Posted on June 16, 2009
Many thanks to Al, Dan, and the rest of the Faculty Lounge gang for letting me hang out with them for a while. Here in Chapel Hill, I have the ability to hang out with Al not just virtually, but...

Facebook and Imaginary "Friends"

Posted on June 16, 2009
While indulging in my usual conference-inspired USA Today-fest last week, I noticed an article by Craig Wilson effectively dealing with "friendship fatigue" on Facebook. Wilson likens Facebook friends to the imaginary friends of our childhoods ie people who help you...

Kimberly Krawiec Blogging With Us

Posted on June 16, 2009
It's my great pleasure to welcome Kim Krawiec of Duke Law School into the faculty lounge. Kim's going to be sitting with us for a spell. Kim was with UNC for many years and she has taught law at the...

Heald on the Problems Confronting Law and Literature

Posted on June 16, 2009
Paul Heald has a brief essay up on ssrn, "The Death of Law and Literature." It's a fast read and addresses the problems of relevancy and audience for law and literature. Here is his abstract: Thirty years after the publication...

Jacqui Lipton And Tim Zinnecker Officially Join The Lounge!

Posted on June 15, 2009
We're very excited to announce that we have two new permanent bloggers here at the Faculty Lounge: Jacqueline Lipton and Timothy Zinnecker. Most of you are already familiar with these folks. They've been thoughtful visitors to the Lounge for some...

Monument Law: Tennessee Statehouse Version

Posted on June 15, 2009
I'm back from a couple of days in lovely Tennessee, where I had the chance to talk a little bit about monuments and memory with Spencer Crew's students at Middle Tennessee State University. The extraordinary Jim Campbell was there to...

Be the kind of woman that when

Posted on June 15, 2009
Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "Oh Shit, She's up!" -Kathleen Bergin

Conference Formats...

Posted on June 15, 2009
Thanks to Dan and the gang at the Lounge for inviting me stay on permanently - I feel like Heather Locklear on Melrose Place, the guest who just won't go away! [Probably dating myself there with that reference as usual.]...

2009 Lateral Moves List Updated. Last Call For News And Corrections!

Posted on June 15, 2009
My almost-final update of the 2009 law faculty lateral moves list is here. I'd be very, very appreciative if readers would take one more look to make sure that I've got a complete and accurate picture. I'm confident there will...

Cravath Defers Start Dates. Stigma Ends. Judicial Clerkship Crush Begins.

Posted on June 15, 2009
It took a while, but the Cravath ceiling has finally shattered.. On Friday, the firm announced that the incoming class (2009) would be offered a voluntary one year deferral of start date. That's the good news. The bad news is...

Ave Maria Replaced! Massachusetts Law School Targets Junior Colleges! UNT Law Sweats Gov's John Hancock!

Posted on June 13, 2009
For those of you who don't scour the law school news feed daily - and God only knows what you do with your time - here are three items to contemplate over this pleasant June weekend. 1. Ave Maria has...

Czar Kenneth Feinberg: A Dynamic, Transparent Special Master

Posted on June 12, 2009
Yesterday the Treasury Department announced that Kenneth Feinberg would serve as a special master - czar, to many media outlets - supervising executive compesnation for those companies getting tons-o-bux from Uncle Samuel. As many people probably know, Feinberg was the...

Texas Ends 81st Legislative Session

Posted on June 12, 2009
The good news: lawmakers passed a bill to restrict the use of shackles on pregnant inmates during labor and delivery. The bad news: its 2009, and lawmakers just now passed a bill to prevent shackling inmates during delivery. HB 3653...

Pace Environmental Law Review Moves to Peer Review

Posted on June 12, 2009
From our friend Prof. Bridget Crawford (Pace): Eablished in 1982, PELR was one of the first scholarly environmental law journals. As of August 1, 2009, Pace Environmental Law Review (PELR) will use a new Peer Review process to select articles...

Face(book)ing the New Cybersquatters

Posted on June 12, 2009
This morning, the National Law Journal noted: "Starting Saturday, at 12:01 a.m. EST, Facebook will allow an estimated 200 million users to select any "usernames," which can include a trademark, brand name or personal name. And if the owner hasn't...

Loving v. Virginia: June 12, 1967

Posted on June 12, 2009
Today, June 12, is the 42nd year after the Loving v. Virginia case, which ruled as unconstitutional Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws. The plaintiffs, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, lifelong acquaintances and residents of Central Point, VA, were jailed for cohabitating as...

Stranger in a Strange Land

Posted on June 11, 2009
The subtitle of this post is "law professor in Target." (Or perhaps it should be "law professor loose in Target.") I delayed my trip to Philadelphia so that I could stay in North Carolina for today's memorial service for John...

Bing on da new search engine...

Posted on June 11, 2009
So this week, Microsoft seems to have unveiled its new search engine, bing.com. I'm told it's supposed to rival and even surpass Google in popularity. I gave it a whirl and noticed that the search results are different than on...

Martha Minow New Dean Of Harvard Law School

Posted on June 11, 2009
Martha Minow, a Harvard Law professor since 1981, has just been named the Dean of Harvard Law. She replaces Elana Kagan. She is a Yale Law School graduate. Her bibliography is here. Sorry Rutgers-Newark...this just wasn't your year. Based on...

Why Don't Law Students Choose the Cheaper Option?

Posted on June 11, 2009
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am trying to write up an article in the next few weeks. In the meantime, some of my colleagues are teaching summer classes. One thing that I wonder is why there are not more...

On Grammar, Usage, and Style

Posted on June 10, 2009
I cannot resist seconding Nancy Rapoport's observations about student literacy. I am tired of student inability to distinguish the possessive from the plural, with consequent butchering of the poor apostrophe. I bemoan the failure of students to understand the difference...

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