The Faculty Lounge

Leon Redbone (1949-2019)

From the New York Times obituary: 

His stage persona remained consistent for his entire career, as did his determination to reveal little about his personal life or background. The announcement of his death said he “crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at the age of 127.”

He was actually born on Aug. 26, 1949, in Cyprus. An authoritative article in The Oxford American this year said his parents had relocated there from the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem after the new Israeli government seized their property. Mr. Redbone’s birth name, the article said, was Dickran Gobalian, though he always remained elusive about that and other details of his life.

AALS Alert: Philly Area Law Schools Reception In New Orleans

This one's for all of you who'll be at the AALS conference next month.  Put this must-do on your calendar:

The law schools of Drexel, Penn, Temple and Villanova are co-hosting a Philadelphia Area Law Schools Reception Friday night, January 4, from 6 to 7:30 pm.  Join us in the Newberry Room, 3rd floor of the Hilton, for some Philly-style bites (guaranteed to be every bit as good as the Étouffée you'd find in Center City Philadelphia), drinks and good conversation.  Think of the convenience of one-stop-shopping - no need to schmooze door to door when you can do it all right there in the Newberry Room.  

 

Welcome Brian Gallini to the Lounge

We're pleased to welcome guest blogger Professor Brian Gallini, of the University of Arkansas School of Law.    Brian is an expert in criminal law - with a particular interest in interrogations and confessions.  And he's moonlighting as the Associate Dean for Faculty in his spare time.  We're looking forward to his insights.  Welcome to the Lounge, Brian!

Hiring at Peking University School of Transnational Law

Peking University School of Transnational Law (“STL”) invites applications for entry-level and lateral tenure track scholars of Corporate and Securities Law, Property Law, Law and Economic Development, Intellectual Property Law, Innovation Law and Policy, Law and Biotechnology, Energy Law, and all areas of China Law and Legal History. 

Peking University is one of the world's leading research universities.  STL is located on Peking University's Shenzhen campus, minutes from Hong Kong.  Shenzhen is renowned as China’s “Silicon Valley,” home to information and biotechnology start-ups and such innovative giants as Tencent, Huawei, BGI, BYD, and DJI Drones.  Together, Shenzhen and Hong Kong form the hub of the world’s most populous metropolitan area, China’s Pearl River Delta, where Chinese and Western legal and commercial traditions are meeting and merging in ways likely to preview future legal developments throughout China and the rest of the world as China’s global economic influence grows.  STL is the only law school in the world to offer an integrated dual degree that includes a Common Law J.D. and China law Juris Master (J.M.).  STL also offers an LL.M. for international students with a first degree in law. 

Inquiries should be addressed to Professor Mark Feldman, Chair, Faculty Appointments Committee, at mfeldman@stl.pku.edu.cn or mfeldman97@gmail.com.

Welcome Amy Landers To The Lounge

I'm very pleased that my colleague Amy Landers will be blogging with us for a while.  Amy joined the Drexel University Kline Law faculty in 2014 after a decade at McGeorge Law and a prior stint as an IP litigation partner with Orrick, Herrington.  Amy brings not only deep patent law expertise, but broader interests in innovation and creativity.

Welcome to the Lounge, Amy.  I'm looking forward to your posts.

Hosea Harvey Sits In For A Spell

Hosea Harvey, Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at Temple, joins us in the Lounge this month.  His research applies mixed methods approaches to examining the impact of regulatory policymaking choices in consumer finance and public health markets.  He assures us he is not related to the weather phenomenon currently devastating Texas.  

Welcome Hosea as he pulls up a chair.

Scott Norberg Sits In For A Cup of Commentary

It’s my pleasure to welcome Scott Norberg as a guest blogger on The Faculty Lounge for the month of August.  Scott was the founding Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Florida International University College of Law.  In his original day job he teaches and writes about commercial law and bankruptcy, but he has also become a leader in the ongoing debate on law-school standards and accreditation.  Scott was full-time Deputy Managing Director for the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar from 2011 to 2014, and has served on the ABA Data Policy and Collection and Standards Review Committees.  So he has observed the recent upheavals from a valuable vantage point.

Scott recently posted a new article on SSRN entitled “The Case for an ABA Accreditation Standard on Employment Outcomes,” which you can get here.  I offered to introduce Scott’s visit to the Lounge with some introductory thoughts on his article, and Scott agreed to join us anyway.  Those thoughts appear in the post that follows.  In the meantime, welcome Scott to the Lounge.

TerBeek Visiting with Us

I'm delighted to announce that Calvin TerBeek will be sitting with us for a spell here in the faculty lounge.  Calvin is a second-year political science PhD student at the University of Chicago (he also has a JD from Tulane). He is interested in all forms of American politics, especially judicial politics, constitutional conservatism, and originalism.  And close readers of the comments section may recall that Calvin comments now and then.

Welcome to the faculty lounge!

Welcome Carole Silver To The Lounge

We are very pleased to have Professor Carole Silver, of Northwestern Law, join us in the Lounge as a guest.  Carole joined Northwestern in 2014.  Cribbing from the school's website:  

Silver was Professor of Law at Indiana University, Maurer School of Law from 2010-2013; at the same time, she was Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, which surveys law students in the United States, Canada and Australia about their educational experiences, behaviors and attitudes towards law school. Before joining Indiana, she was Executive Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University Law School. Earlier, she practiced corporate and securities law at Sidley & Austin, and clerked for Judge Jesse Eschbach of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Professor Silver served as a member of the ABA’s Ethics 20/20 Commission from 2009 – 2013, a group created by the ABA President to study the influence of globalization and technology on lawyer regulation.

Deborah Merritt Stepping into Faculty Lounge

I am pleased to announce that Deborah Merritt of Ohio State's law school is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Cribbing now from her webpage:

Professor Deborah Jones Merritt graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1977 and from Columbia Law School in 1980. While at Columbia, she was managing editor of the Columbia Law Review and won the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize.

After graduation, Professor Merritt clerked for Judge (now Justice) Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court of the United States. ...

Professor Merritt has published widely on issues of equality, affirmative action, federalism, health and technology, legal education, tort reform, and law and social science. Much of her work has focused on public policy issues, and she has made numerous presentations to judges, legislators, and other policymakers. In 2009, the United States Supreme Court invited her to defend the lower-court judgment in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick, a prominent copyright class action. Professor Merritt also has co-taught courses in Europe with both Justice Ginsburg and Justice O’Connor.

Welcome to the lounge, Deborah!  Looking forward to your posts.

Sheldon Lyke Stepping into Faculty Lounge

I am pleased to announce (a little belatedly) that Sheldon Lyke, who is a professor at Whittier Law School, is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Sheldon was educated at Princeton and Northwestern Law School, and holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.  He teaches property and trusts and estates.  Cribbing now a little from his webpage:

Professor Lyke uses empirical methods, comparative law, and property theory to study the role of law and its institutions in the stratification of marginalized people He particularly studies racial and sexual minorities in a comparative context. At the heart of his scholarship is a desire to identify the social collective action problems associated with shared resources (i.e., commons) and understand their links to oppression. His dissertation project examined cosmopolitanism and how foreign high court judges use and share foreign legal authority in their civil and human rights decisions. Professor Lyke’s current research explores anti-affirmative action practices in higher education as a shared commons problem. His work is increasingly observing commons property law institutions (e.g., charitable trusts, estates, and organizations) and their role in creating and ameliorating social inequality.

Welcome to the lounge!  I'm very much looking forward to your posts.

Mark Edwards Stepping into Faculty Lounge

I'm pleased to announce that Mark Edwards of William Mitchell's law school is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Mark is a scholar of property law and also the interaction of law and social relations.  His scholarship includes work on ERISA, restitution, the Wisconsin timber industry, and property law's policing of the boundaries of acceptable behavior.  And he's also at the center of Chartacourse, which is presenting innovative teaching materials.  I hope we'll hear a lot about all that during his visit.

 

Welcome Martha Ertman To The Lounge

I'm very pleased that Martha Ertman will be joining us for a while here in the Lounge.  Martha is the Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor of Law at the University of Maryland.  Her new book is  Love’s Promises: How Formal & Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families.  More broadly, she rights about the role of contracts in intimate relationships.   Here full cv is here.  Welcome to the Lounge, Martha!

Haskell Stepping into Faculty Lounge

I'm pleased to announce that John Haskell, who teaches at Mississippi College School of Law, is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  John teaches in the areas of contracts, administrative law, and both public and private international law.  Cribbing now from John's webpage:

Dr. John D. Haskell graduated with a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (UC Hastings), and an LLM and PhD in Philosophy from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).  Prior to joining MC Law, he held positions as Visiting Researcher, Docent and Junior Faculty at Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy, Visiting Assistant Professor at the International University of Turin, Assistant Director of the Institute for the study of Political Economy and Law, Fulbright Fellow at the University of Helsinki Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Visiting Scholar at the University of San Francisco School of Law, Lecturer and Deputy Director of External Relations, and subsequently, as an Honorary Research Fellow at Durham Law School, and Visiting Lecturer at Lille Catholic University.

Welcome Steven Lubet, A New Permanent Member Of The Lounge

We're very excited to announce that Steven Lubet will be joining the Faculty Lounge as a permanent blogger.  We've enjoyed his engaging, thoughtful and sometimes controversial posts as a guest, and we're incredibly pleased that he'll be staying on for the long haul.  Steven is the Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law.  He is also the Director of the Fred Bartlit Center for Trial Advocacy.  Steven holds JD from the artist formerly known as Boalt Hall, the UC Berkeley School of Law.  He is a prolific author and his books include The Colored Hero of Harper's Ferry (Cambridge, forthcoming 2015), John Brown's Spy (Yale, 2012), Fugitive Justice (Harvard, 2010) and The Importance of Being Honest (NYU, 2008).  There's a lot more to look at;  check out his full ouevre here.

If you've been under a rock recently, take a look at his hot new review of Alice Goffman's On the Run here or his first post of his series on L'Affaire Steven Salaida here.

Welcome Steven!

Welcome Taunya Lovell Banks To The Lounge

We're very pleased to welcome Professor Taunya Lovell Banks to the Faculty Lounge for a visit.  Professor Banks is the Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence at University of Maryland Law. Her most recent publications explore the continuing impact of gender, race, racial formation and racial hierarchies on the quest for social equality.  Welcome to the Lounge!

Whalen Stepping into Faculty Lounge

It's my pleasure to announce that Ryan Whalen is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Close readers of faculty lounge may recall that he put together an impressive map of the law professor twitterverse, back in January.  Ryan blogs at ryanwhalen.com. and is a JD/Ph.D. candidate (in media, law, and technology) at Northwestern.  He's just finished a term as editor-in-chief of the Northwestern University Law Review.  Cribbing now from his website, I'd like to add that before attending university, he worked around the world as a juggler, actor and entertainer.

I'm very much looking forward to his posts.

Salkin Stepping into Faculty Lounge

It is my pleasure to announce that Dean Patricia Salkin of Touro Law is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Salkin became dean at Touro in summer 2012.  Before that she had been a faculty member for many years at Albany Law School, where she was the Raymond & Ella Smith Distinguished Professor of Law, as well as Associate Dean and Director of the Government Law Center of Albany Law School.  Her scholarship is on land use law and zoning and her home blog is Law of the Land.  Her publications include New York Zoning Law & Practice (1999-present); American Law of Zoning (2008-present); Bordering on Madness: An American Land Use Tale Companion (with Popper and Avitale)(2008); Land Use & Sustainable Development: Cases and Materials, (8th ed. Thomson West, 2012) (with Nolon); Climate Change and Sustainable Development Law in a Nutshell (Thomson Reuters, 2010) (with Nolon); The Greening of Local Governments (ed. with Hirokawa, ABA Press, 2012); the annual Zoning and Planning Law Handbook (Thomson Reuters); and Pioneering Women Lawyers: From Kate Stoneman To Present (ed., American Bar Association Press, 2008).

Welcome, Patricia.  Very much looking forward to your posts.

Michael Risch Stepping into the Faculty Lounge

I'm delighted to report that Michael Risch of Villanova University's law school is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Cribbing now a little from his webpage:

Professor Michael Risch joined the Villanova faculty in 2010 from the West Virginia University College of Law, where he directed the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Law Program. Prior to joining the West Virginia faculty, he served as an Olin Fellow in Law at Stanford Law School. Professor Risch’s teaching and scholarship focus on intellectual property and internet law, with an emphasis on patents, trade secrets and information access.  His articles have been published in the Stanford Law Review and Duke Law Journal, among others; online in the Yale Law Journal Online and PENNumbra; and less formally at the Madisonian, Prawfsblawg, and Patently-O blogs. Two of his articles have been cited by the United States Supreme Court. Professor Risch received his A.B. with honors and distinction in Public Policy and with distinction in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University, and his J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to entering academia, he was a partner at intellectual property boutique Russo & Hale LLP in Palo Alto, California.

Welcome, Michael.  I'm pushing a chair into the lounge for you now; looking forward to your posts.

James Fox Stepping into the Faculty Lounge

I'm delighted to report that James W. Fox of Stetson Law School is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Cribbing now from his biography:

Professor Fox joined the Stetson faculty in fall 2000. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and then attended the University of Michigan Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1990, became a member of Order of the Coif, and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law Reform. He then clerked for the Honorable Phyllis Kravitch on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He was an associate with the Washington, D.C., firm of Covington & Burling, where his practice focused on complex tort and insurance litigation. He also served as a temporary staff attorney for the Neighborhood Legal Services Program in Washington. Before joining the faculty at Stetson, Professor Fox taught at Mercer University Law School.

Professor Fox has written on the history and theory of democratic citizenship and poverty and on contract theory in journals such as the Howard Law Journal, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, the Case Western Reserve Law Review, the Kentucky Law Journal, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, and theWashington University Law Quarterly. Professor Fox's current research focuses on the intersection of civil society and public sphere theory and the actual practices of citizenship and implementation of the Fourteenth Amendment on the ground during the period from Reconstruction through the Progressive Era. Professor Fox is also exploring the ways in which the ideas and experiences of African Americans during the Reconstruction period can expand notions of originalism.  Professor Fox served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2009 through 2012.  In addition to his teaching and research, Professor Fox has also served on the board of directors of Gulfcoast Legal Services.

I'm very much looking forward to having Jamie blog with us -- and I'm looking forward to his posts!