The Faculty Lounge

Tweedy Stepping into the Faculty Lounge

Ann Tweedy, who is an assistant professor at Hamline, is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Ann's teaching and scholarship centers around  Property, Federal Indian Law, and Gender, Sexuality, and Law.  Her recent publications include "Unjustifiable Expectations: Laying to Rest the Ghosts of Allotment-Era Settlers," in the Seattle University Law Review in 2012 -- an article I highly recommend, by the way; "Sex Discrimination Under Tribal Law" in The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty (Kristen Carpenter et al. eds.) in 2012; "Sex Discrimination Under Tribal Law," in Women and the Law (Tracy Thomas ed.) in 2011; and "Polyamory as a Sexual Orientation," in the University of Cincinnati Law Review in 2011.  "How Allotment-Era Literature Can Inform Current Controversies About Tribal Jurisdiction and Reservation Diminishment" is forthcoming in the University of Toronto Quarterly.  This is yet another example of the growth of "applied legal history."  More of her papers are available on ssrn.

Before joining the Hamline faculty, Ann was a visiting assitant professor at Michigan State University and a Fellow at California Western School of Law.  Ann received her J.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley and her A.B. degree from Bryn Mawr College.  Before entering the academy, Ann  clerked for Judge Gould of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Armstrong of the Oregon Court of Appeals, and  worked for several years representing Indian tribes, first as in-house counsel for the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and then as an Associate at Kanji & Katzen, PLLC. Her practice primarily centered on environmental and natural resources law.

Ridgway Stepping Into Faculty Lounge

It's my pleasure to introduce James Ridgway is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.   James is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University School of Law, where he teaches veterans law.  He is the founder and administrator of VeteransLawLibrary.com, a free veterans law resource for practitioners and scholars.

James is also the Chief Counsel for Policy and Procedure at the Board of Veterans’ Appeals within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).   He graduated with highest honors in both physics and history from William and Mary in 1994 and the University of Virginia Law School  in 1997, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.   Before joining the Veterans Administration, James clerked for the Honorable Alan G. Lance, Sr., and the Honorable Kenneth B. Kramer of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC). Between those clerkships, he was a trial and appellate Assistant State’s Attorney in Chicago, Illinois for five years and he also taught at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

James' articles on veterans law have appeared in such journals as the Administrative Law Review, American University Law Review, New York University Annual Survey of American Law, and the Veterans Law Review.  His work examining the veterans benefits system has been cited by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Congress, and by the Solicitor General and other parties arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court.  His writings are available at his ssrn page.

Welcome, James -- very much looking forward to your posts!

Matthew Crow Stepping into the Faculty Lounge

It's my pleasure to announce that Matthew Crow is stepping into the Faculty Lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Matthew is an assistant professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.  He teaches about the colonial and revolutionary history of the United States, as well as on the intellectual history of the United States and the legal and constitutional history of the United States from its European antecedents to the present.  His publications include "History, Politics, and the Self: Jefferson's 'Anas' and Autobiography," in the Blackwell Companion to Thomas Jefferson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).   Matthew was educated at the University of California -- San Diego and took his Ph.D. at UCLA.  Cribbing now a little from Matthew's webpage:

I see my research and teaching interests as intertwined- in both I focus on the history of legal and political thought and constitutionalism in the early modern Atlantic world, including the colonial, revolutionary, and early national history of the United States. My current research looks at the history of thought from the standpoint of the history of intellectual practice, with particular (although not exclusive) attention to the figure of Thomas Jefferson. Other interests include the history of empire, the history of historiography, American intellectual history, the history of thought more broadly, and in that vein the writings of Wittgenstein, Arendt and Foucault, and their British and American readers. 

I'm delighed to welcome Matthew to the lounge and am very much looking forward to his posts on legal and constitutional history and political theory.

Welcome Jeff Redding To The Lounge

We're very pleased to welcome Professor Jeff Redding to the Faculty Lounge this month.  Jeff is an assistant professor at Saint Louis University School of Law.  He teaches civil procedure and comparative law and publishes in these areas, as well as sexuality and the law.  He presented his forthcoming piece, The Case of Ayesha, Muslim ‘Courts,’ and the Rule of Law: Some Ethnographic Lessons for Legal Theory,  at the 2012 Stanford/Yale/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum in the Law & Humanities category.  I confess: whenever I hear legal scholars talk about ethnography, I assume something interesting is happening.  

Welcome to the Lounge!

Drexel Law Introduces 2 Year Accelerated JD Law Degree

For students seeking a faster, higher intensity legal education, the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University has created a new two-year accelerated degree program leading to a law degree.  More details are here.  

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Barros Stepping into the Faculty Lounge

It's my pleasure to welcome Ben Barros to the faculty lounge.  Ben is the Dean of Faculty Research and Development and Associate Professor of Law at Widener's Harrisburg campus, where he teaches property, business organizations, real estate transactions, and seminars on takings and property theory.  He joined Widener's faculty in 2004 from the New York office of Latham & Watkins LLP, where his practice focused on international litigation and arbitration.  Before that he practiced in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton, and was a law clerk to the Honorable Milton Pollack of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Ben was a visiting professor at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law in 2007-08 and has also taught International Arbitration as an adjunct at Fordham University School of Law. 

Ben's recent publications include "The Complexities of Judicial Takings," 45 U. Rich. L. Rev. 903 (2011); "Toward a Model Law of Estates and Future Interests," 66 Washington & Lee L. Rev. 3 (2009); "Property and Freedom," 4 NYU J. L. & Liberty 36 (2009); "Legal Questions for the Psychology of Home," 83 Tulane L. Rev. 645 (2009) and the book Hernando de Soto and Property in a Market Economy (Applegate, 2010).

Close readers of the faculty lounge may recall that last summer -- before everyone else started talking about it -- Ben had a guest post here at the faculty lounge that urged state bar examiners to allow students to take the bar in their third year of law school.  Ben also was the leader of propertyprof blog for many years, where he is now an associate editor.

Tamara Piety stepping into the Faculty Lounge

It's my pleasure to announce that Tamara Piety, who is associate dean for faculty development and a professor at the University of Tulsa's law school, is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Dean Piety teaches in the areas of civil procedure, corporations, corporate speech, evidence, and scientific evidence.   Much of her recent work is on commerical speech.  Her book on commerical speech, Brandishing the First Amendment: Commerical Express in America, appeared last year from the University of Michigan Press.  She has also recently published articles on commerical speech in the Alabama Law Review and Michigan Law Review First Impressions.  I, however, am most familiar with a charming essay on using Melville in property class, "Something Fishy: Or Why I Make My Students Read Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish."  Piety joined the University of Tulsa's faculty in 2001 and has also taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Florida State.  She holds degress from Florida International University, the University of Miami, and Harvard.

Welcome to the faculty lounge -- looking forward to your posts!

Roark stepping into the Faculty Lounge

It's my pleasure to announce that Marc Roark of Savannah Law School is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Marc teaches and writes in the areas of property, secured transactions, sales, payment systems, and law and literature.  Marc was educated at LSU, Loyola of New Orleans, and Duke, and practiced commerical law in New Orleans.  Before moving to Savannah in 2012, Marc taught at La Verne, the University of Missouri -- Columbia, and the University of Tulsa.  His articles have appeared in the Duke Law and Technology Review, the University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Louisiana Law Review, the UCC Law Journal,  the Loyola Law Review, and the  UMKC Law Review, and he has articles forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Education and the Cumberland Law Review.  Marc is working on an extended project tentatively titled “Popular Property,” on the nature of property outside of legal regimes.  We're also working together on an article that bridges legal history and property pedagogy, which Marc may talk a little bit about.

Welcome David Yellen To The Lounge

Dean David Yellen from Loyola University Chicago School of Law will be joining us as a guest this month.  David, who holds a JD from Cornell, entered teaching in 1988 and has an expertise in criminal law.  In 2001, he becamse the dean at Hofstra.  In 2005, he moved to Chicago to become dean at Loyola.  David is a particularly thoughtful professor and law school dean and I'm really looking forward to discovering what's on his mind in these turbulent times.

AALS Happy Hour in New Orleans

Dan Markel reports that the annual blogger and blog-reader happy hour will be held this year at 10 pm Saturday at Whiskey Blue, located in the W Hotel.  

Welcome Beth Haas To The Lounge

We're very pleased to welcome Beth Haas as a guest blogger here at the Faculty Lounge.  Beth is a colleague of mine here at Drexel, serving as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Online Education.  Among her more remarkable achievements is that she's sold an exceptionally skeptical faculty on the idea that online can match live courses for quality and student engagement. 

Beth is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova Law, and brings deep experience in the areas of products liability, toxic torts and aviation law.  Welcome to the Lounge!

Welcome Taja-Nia Henderson And Patrick O'Donnell

We're very pleased to welcome two new guests to the Lounge: Taja-Nia Henderson and Patrick S. O'Donnell.  Taja-Nia is an Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers-Newark, having joined the faculty in 2010.  She focuses on issues related to race, criminal justice, and legal history, among other things.  Regular blawg readers are very familiar with Patrick, who, in addition to being a philosophy prof,  is a regular at Ratio Juris.   We're excited to have them join us for a while!

Henderson Stepping Into the Lounge

It's my pleasure to announce that Professor Taja-Nia Y. Henderson of Rutgers School of Law, Newark, is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  

Cribbing now from the her Rutgers website, I'll add that: Professor Henderson received her A.B. from Dartmouth College, her M.A. from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Dean’s Scholar and senior notes editor of the N.Y.U. Law Review.  Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 2010, Professor Henderson clerked for the Hon. Consuelo B. Marshall, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, was an associate in the litigation practice group of Arnold & Porter LLP in New York, and served as the Derrick Bell Teaching Fellow in constitutional law at NYU School of Law.  Her publications include “New Frontiers in Fair Lending: Confronting Lending Discrimination Against Ex-Offenders,” 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1237 (October 2005) and “Racial Fortuity, Rights Sacrifice, and the Promise of Convergence in Prison and Policing Policy,” forthcoming in the Columubia Journal of Race & Law.

Professor Henderson's teaching and research interests are in slavery, social control organizations, incarceration and prisoner reentry, law and society, and land use/property.  I will also add -- and this is where our interests really overlap -- that Professor Henderson is writing a doctoral dissertation on the 19th century emergence of Virginia’s state prison – the first penitentiary in the slaveholding American south – and its relationship to the institution of racial slavery in the state.  I'm really looking forward to her posts -- and hope to hear a lot about the latest on institutions in Virginia in the pre-Civil War era.

Reynolds Stepping Into the Faculty Lounge

It's my pleasure to announce that Bill Reynolds, the Jacob A. France Professor of Judicial Process at the University of Maryland, is stepping into the lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Bill's been on the faculty at Maryland for forty-one years and in that time has taught across a huge spectrum of courses, including recently Antitrust, Art Law, Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Conflict of Laws, European Union Law, International Business Transactions, and Professional Responsibility.  

Bill is also the author of a wide range of scholarship, including the book Injustice On Appeal: The United States Courts of Appeals in Crisis with William Richman, with is forthcoming imminently from Oxford University Press.  Selections of his recent work is available at ssrn.  Before joining the Maryland faculty in 1971, Bill was educated at Darmouth College and Harvard Law School, where he was on the editorial board of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.  He then clerked with Judge Frank Kaufman.  Bill has also held visiting positions with Brooklyn Law School, SMU, and the University of West Virginia.  He is currently of counsel with DLA Piper.

 Welcome Bill!  Looking forward to your posts.

Welcome Mike Madison To The Lounge

I'm exceptionally excited to have Professor Michael Madison, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, joining us as a guest here in the Faculty Lounge.  Mike is a prodigious scholar and recently he's been doing extremely interesting work around the notion of a cultural commons.   Many of our readers are familiar with Mike's writing;  his Madisonian blog is mandatory reading for law and technology scholars.  On a personal level,  I've also come to know him as an incredibly generous colleague.  Welcome to the Lounge!

Welcome Rita Trivedi To The Lounge

This week, Rita Trivedi will join us as a guest blogger here in the Faculty Lounge.  Rita is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the  Careers-in-Law-Teaching Program  at Columbia Law School.  She holds her JD from Duke and her LLM from Columbia.  She writes in the areas of labor and emploment law.  Please welcome Rita to the Lounge!

Call for Fellowship Applications: Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School

I'm passing on the following call for fellowship applications on behalf of the Petrie-Flom Center:

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology at Harvard Law School is currently accepting applications for the 2013-2015 Academic Fellowship Program on a rolling basis through November 16, 2012.

The fellowship is designed for applicants who have the intellectual focus to make top-rate academics in health law policy, bioethics or biotechnology, and who would benefit from time to develop their ideas and writing before they enter the academic job market. Our prior fellows have found homes on the law faculties at Harvard, Berkeley, BU, UCLA, the University of Arizona, Cornell and the University of Illinois. The fellowships include stipends of $60,000/yr for two years, a research budget, limited benefits and access to the full range of the Center's and Harvard's facilities and research resources.

If you know of any well-suited candidate who might be interested, please direct them to the call for applications (pdf) to learn more.

Welcome Jim Gardner To The Lounge

Professor James Gardner, from SUNY Buffalo Law School, will be joining us for a while as a guest in the Lounge.  Jim is the outgoing vice dean for academic affairs, but he stayed very busy with What Are Campaigns For? The Role of Persuasion in Electoral Law and Politics (Oxford 2009) and an edited volume, New Frontiers of State Constitutional Law: Dual Enforcement of Norms (Oxford 2010 with Jim Rossi).  He has a JD from Yale and joined SUNY Buffalo in 2001.  He'll be visiting at McGill in the fall and Florida State in the spring - but right now we're very pleased that he'll be visiting with us for a month or so! 

Jill Fraley Stepping into the Faculty Lounge

It's my pleasure to announce that Jill Fraley of Washington and Lee's law school is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Jill was educated at Yale College and Duke Law School and she holds a JSD from Yale.  Jill teaches property, environmental law, and legal history and practiced in environmental law and property.

You may recall that Jill's putting together a conference at W&L this October on climate change in the former colonialies.  This is a piece of her extraordinary work, which  links legal history and property across centuries.  Her work spans the settling of British North America to Appalachia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  For instance, she's working on ways that maps tell us about colonial attitudes toward property west of the Appalachian mountains in the eighteenth century.  And then there's the project on the wastelands....  Well, I'll let Jill fill you in on the details.  This is really terrific and creative and new work.

Welcome, Jill!