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Drexel Law Seeks IP Faculty Candidates 27 Aug 2013 | 04:40 pm
What can I say? I'm biased. I think we have a great faculty, an inclusive community, and a hometown - Philadelphia - that's nearly unbeatable. To top it off, the university is a deeply committed su...
Cost-Cutting and AALS Annual Meeting 26 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
I've heard a few folks say this year that they think attendance at the AALS Annual Meeting in January will be lower than usual because of cost-cutting measures on faculty budgets. Wondering if this is...
Faculty Hiring: UNT-Dallas 26 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
From an email message that I received a day or two ago: The University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law invites applications for 4-5 full time faculty members who would begin teaching in the a...
Welcome To Two New Permanent Bloggers: Michelle Meyer and Jeff Redding 26 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm
We're incredibly pleased to announce that two new permabloggers are joining the Faculty Lounge. Many of you will already be familiar with their particularly engaging (and at times controversial) post...
Putting It On Our Children to Fix the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
I was visiting Sydney Sea Life Aquarium recently and, in the children’s activity area, noticed signs urging kids to become plastic warriors by pledging to reduce their families’ use of plastic packagi...
Battle of Blair Mountain 25 Aug 2013 | 11:39 pm
Erik Lomis has a very good post on the Battle of Blair Mountain, which began on August 25, 1921, ninety two years ago today and about which I am shamefully ill-informed. Since I'm deeply interested i...
Audience-Oriented Wrongs 25 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
As I mentioned in my last post, one of the things that I've been thinking about lately is how law and scholarship are beginning to pay more attention to the importance of audience in various contexts....
Hidden Gems: Community Law Schools Part of the Solution - Part V 25 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
Changing the classroom experience. Why are traditional faculty threatened by discussions about adding practice skills to the law school classroom? On one side of the argument are the academic purita....
Obama: Law School to Two Years? 24 Aug 2013 | 01:55 am
Ian Holloway sends along a link to a report that President Obama has called for law school to shorten to two years. Whenever I hear Obama talking about law school or race I think about his course on ...
Antebellum Courthouse Trivia 23 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
Well, we're at the 182nd anniversary of the end of the Nat Turner rebellion. It unravelled on the morning of August 23, 1831. After the rebellion ended following a battle at the Belmont plantation,...
