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Burris Admits He Tried to Raise $$ for Blago

Posted on February 17, 2009
According to a transcript of a colloquy with reporters released by the Chicago Tribune, Senator Roland Burris (D-Ill.) now admits that he tried, albeit unsuccessfuly, to raise cash for Governor Blagojevich at a time when Burris knew he was under...

Princeton had a law school from 1847 to 1854?

Posted on February 17, 2009
Who knew? Certainly not me--and I purport to study things antebellum and legal. (And the law school was only in operation for five years, though it was wasn't disbanded until 1854.) David Hollander, Princeton's law librarian, tells the story and...

Demise Of The White Pages: The Ohio Phone Book Disappears

Posted on February 17, 2009
The State of Ohio just gave AT&T permission to stop delivering White Pages books to its subscribers. That makes business sense, I'm sure. Those hefty volumes must cost a ton to produce and deliver. And we do live in a...

Jones Day and Blockshopper.com: Trademarks or Privacy Rights?

Posted on February 17, 2009
I don't know how many people have followed the settlement in the case involving Jones Day and blockshopper.com - the case in which Jones Day sued for trademark infringement over blockshopper's reference to Jones Day associates and their property purchases...

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Thomas Saenz Biography - New Attorney General For DOJ Civil Rights Division?

Posted on February 17, 2009
Based on these sources, here is the biography of Tom Saenz - the likely nominee to head up the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. His formal title at DOJ would be the Assistant Attorney General. Saentz grew...

Note to Future Deans

Posted on February 16, 2009
First let me express thanks and gratitude to the founders and bloggers of the Faculty Lounge. It is a great blog, and I am happy to join as a guest blogger. Al Brophy and I concur that you bold souls...

What?s legal education going to look like after the economic crisis?

Posted on February 16, 2009
Well, it?s hard to see where the end of the crisis is. But some trends in legal education are emerging and there's been a lot of talk about this the last couple months by faculty like Michael Cahill under the...

Grandma jailbird

Posted on February 16, 2009
Salon has an interesting article on the growing numbers of geriatric women who are incarcerated. Drawing on Viji Sundaram's excellent article, Golden Girls Behind Bars, the piece notes not only the difficulties of being imprisoned in your 70's and 80's,...

US District Judge Rules SORNA is Outside the Commerce Clause

Posted on February 15, 2009
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton (E.D. California) ruled that the portion of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act which criminalizes interstate movement of unregistered sex offenders is beyond Congress's commerce power. A Sacramento Bee news article summarizes the case...

Welcome Eric Chaffee To The Lounge

Posted on February 15, 2009
Now that we're fully a year old, we're bringing on some new guests to spice up the conversation. We're very excited to welcome Eric Chaffee to the Faculty Lounge for a visit. Eric is an Assistant Professor, and the Chair...

Welcome Guest Blogger Jacqueline Lipton

Posted on February 15, 2009
We're very excited to welcome Jacqueline Lipton to the Faculty Lounge for a visit. Jacqui is a Professor at Case Western University School of Law. She is also the co-director of their Center for Law, Technology and Arts and the...

Memo to Senator Reid: The Senate could expel Burris

Posted on February 15, 2009
The New York Times is reporting that Senator Roland Burris has released an affidavit that admits he was contacted by deposed Gov. Blago's brother to see if Burris would donate to or help with fund raising for the embattled Governor....

Note to New Deans

Posted on February 15, 2009
First let me express thanks and gratitude to the founders and bloggers of the Faculty Lounge. It is a great blog, and I am happy to join as a guest blogger. Al Brophy and I concur that you bold souls...

The Best Chinese Food In Philadelphia, And It Comes From A Truck

Posted on February 14, 2009
I know the topic is fluffy, and the story local, but let's speak some truth: the best Chinese food in Philly comes from Kim's Dragon. Kim's Dragon is a truck. And one of the great perks of teaching at Drexel...

Scott Taylor Guest Blogging With Us

Posted on February 14, 2009
It's my great pleasure to announce that Scott Taylor is coming into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell. Scott teaches and writes in the areas of tax, nonprofit institutions, and Native American law, at St. Thomas...

Disability And Moral Culpability, Paralysis And Child Porn

Posted on February 13, 2009
Doug Berman highlights a couple of cases where individuals with severe paralysis were involved in the possession (and in one case, production) of child pornography. In an Alabama case, the defendant apparently secretly videotaped young girls using his bathroom...

Further Thoughts On Law Firm Layoffs: Stigma Is Gone, More To Come

Posted on February 13, 2009
In the aftermath of Black Thursday, commentators are pondering the meaning of yesterday's big firm layoff frenzy. Over at American Lawyer, Aric Press has this to say: Law firms are actively considering the prospect of pay cuts, delayed starting dates,...

Nerd Fun

Posted on February 13, 2009
From Wired:Unix weenies everywhere will be partying like it's 1234567890 this Friday. That's because, at precisely 3:31:30 p.m. Pacific time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" clock used by most Unix computers will display all ten decimal digits...

Preet Bharara Favored For SDNY US Attorney; EDNY Candidates Also Named

Posted on February 12, 2009
The WSJ is reporting that Preet Bharara, a graduate of Columbia Law School and counsel to Senator Chuck Shumer, will likely be tabbed as the next U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He is 40. He would...

It's A Tidal Wave: ATL Reports Law Firm Layoff Frenzy

Posted on February 12, 2009
Above the Law is reporting a slew of Big Law layoffs today. The firms include Dechert, Byan Cave, Goodwin Proctor, WolfBlock, Holland & Knight, Faegre and Benson, and DLA Piper. It seems like a number of firms avoided Grinch status,...

The Michael Steele Fallout

Posted on February 12, 2009
So David Duke's a racist crack-pot, and I almost hate to give him any press, but his reaction to Michael Steele's election to run the RNC (hat tip Pandagon) does raise a question: how much can the party seriously re-tool...

More On Dean Searches In The Sunshine State

Posted on February 12, 2009
On Tuesday, two South Florida papers reported that there were 10 candidates being interviewed for the FIU dean slot. As I discussed yesterday, these press accounts gave the impression that one particular person - the sitting U.S. Attorney, Alex Acosta...

Could Press Coverage Of Alex Acosta Skew The FIU Dean Search?

Posted on February 11, 2009
Two Florida papers - the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel - reported Tuesday on the dean search at Florida International University School of Law. The law school, a state institution presumably operating under sunshine laws, announced that it...

Procrastination and the Law

Posted on February 11, 2009
I keep a file of criminal law & procedure articles I wish I'd written. Today brings another one to add to the pile, written by Manuel Utset and wonderfully entitled Procrastination and the Law:There is a large literature in behavioral...

Penelope Bryan Named Dean at Whittier

Posted on February 10, 2009
Many congratulations to Penelope Bryan, associate dean at the University of Denver, who will be the next dean at Whittier. They're lucky to have her.The complete list of dean searches is here.

Double Bicentennial: Lincoln and Darwin

Posted on February 10, 2009
On Thursday, February 12, it will be 200 years since the births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Darwin was born to wealth and social standing at the family home, The Mount, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on that date in...

Rockefeller Drug Laws Finally Go

Posted on February 09, 2009
As an editorial in the New York Times points out today, it looks like the horribly punitive Rockefeller Drug Laws, a set of NY sentencing guidelines that harshly punished even the smallest amount of drug possession or sale, may finally...

The Second Amendment after Heller

Posted on February 08, 2009
The University of California, Hastings and the Hastings Law Journal will present a symposium on "The Second Amendment after Heller" this coming Friday, February 13th, in the Alumni Reception Center of Hastings, 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco. Speakers include Sanford...

The New School

Posted on February 07, 2009
Elizabeth Eckford, Little Rock Central High School, 1957. Sasha Obama, Sidwell Friends School, 2009

A Second Look at Professor Obama's "Current Issues in Racism and Law"

Posted on February 07, 2009
Yesterday was a most, most extraordinary day, spent over at Mitu Gulati's symposium on judging, at Duke. In addition to the usual sparkling commentary from the usual suspects, I had the chance to visit with a couple of people of...

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