The Faculty Lounge

The Faculty Lounge

"A law professor blawg designed to feel like a faculty lounge with conversations about law, culture, and academia." A group blawg with multiple daily posts that discuss books and great legal thinkers, track law faculty openings and hires, and generally examine the lay of the land for law professors and law students. The occasional news-of-the-weird item will also slip in.

Author: Dan Filler, a law professor at Drexel University; Al Brophy, law professor at University of North Carolina who also contributes to Ratio Juris and PropertyProf Blog; Kathy Bergin, a law professor at South Texas College of Law; Calvin Massey, a law professor at University of California-Hastings; Kevin Maillard, a law professor at Syracuse University; and Laura Appleman, a law professor at Willamette University who also contributes to Legal Ethics Forum.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Drexel University • South Texas College of Law • Syracuse University • University of California, Hastings College of the Law • University of North Carolina • Willamette University • Law Professor • Law Student

Recent Posts from The Faculty Lounge


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  • Twitter for Class

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  • Iowa Law Slowly Unfolds List Of Five Dean Finalists

    The University of Iowa College of Law is starting on-campus interviews of candidates for its deanship. The first person coming to campus will be Gregory Mark, a professor and associate dean at Rutgers - Newark.…

  • Super Lawyers Rankings and Law School Size

    Following up on Dan Filler's post on the Super Lawyers Rankings (as modified by Dean Van Zandt of Northwestern) and correcting for size of JD institution, I thought that I'd take a quick look at…

  • The Van Zandt Law School Rankings

    The folks over at Above the Law are reporting that Northwestern Law dean David Van Zandt has issued an email to law students addressing the new Super Lawyer rankings. In these rankings, which we discussed…

  • Google Delivers The Law. Are West and Lexis Sweating?

    Google is at it again. Google Scholar has just been expanded to include (some number of) federal judicial opinions. I'm not certain the extent of this collection and, because of that, I'm not sure whether…

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  • Mid-week Links

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  • Call For Papers: Articles, Essays And Reviews About South Asia

    The Drexel Law Review has posted this call for papers for an upcoming symposium issue: The Drexel Law Review is pleased to announce a symposium issue focusing on law and policy in South Asia to…

  • Edward Woodward: 1930-2009

    Versatile actor Edward Woodward died earlier this week. You can find The New York Times obituary here. Many readers may remember Woodward from his television work in "The Equalizer" (1985-89). But I'll always remember him…