Month: June 2014

A couple of weeks back I wrote about a brief study that ranks schools based on their rank on median LSAT score of the class entering in fall 2013, employment…

As in years past, we welcome the opportunity to post law school hiring announcements.  Send your announcement to me (zinneckert@campbell.edu) or any of the other bloggers here in the Lounge.…

Now here's a courthouse that looks like, well, a courthouse. Where is it?

A few years back my co-author Alberto Lopez sent me a link to the Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans during the era of Jim Crow.…

I usually don't think of university buildings as skyscapers. But ... here's an exception. Where is this building?

Eric Berger of the University of Nebraska has a new article up on ssrn, "The Rhetoric of Constitutional Absolutism."  He's interested in mostly contemporary constitutional opinions that phrase their results…

The lead essay in this month's Reviews in American History is Robert Cohen's "The Second Worst History Book in Print?  Rethinking [Howard Zinn's] A People's History of the United States."  Let me…

Discussions at faculty meetings can get heated, for sure, but they are nothing like the Uruguay vs. Italy match in today's World Cup.  Uruguay's Luis Suarez [thanks, anon] appears to…

Professor Wendy Scott (North Carolina Central School of Law) has been named as the Dean of Mississippi College of Law, effective this August. Professor (now Dean-to-be) Scott will be the…

As I looked closely at the ABA letter regarding the Penn State application to split its single law school into two schools, I realized that the formal titles of the two law…