Month: March 2008

Who doesn't like a free book?  Dan Solove's two excellent volumes, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, and The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in…

OK, so I agree with Brian Leiter that the overall US News law school rankings don't tell you that much (although to be fair, over time they produce what they…

Call me hyperbolic, but it simply does not get much better than this.  Watch the Red Army Choir (alongside Finnish rockers The Leningrad Cowboys) express their heartfelt love for the…

A rational investor presumably seeks out all the available data about housing markets.  One paticularly alluring piece of information, it seems to me, is the national days-on-market average - the…

I think so.  Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post notes that many pundits have written off Hillary.  But he says that he's not ready to declare the race over yet…

Massachusetts state legislator Demetrius Atsalis has proposed that high risk sex offenders be prohibited from voting at polling places located in libraries and schools.  As he explained, "if someone has…

What are the odds of contracting a computer virus when you download a free file?  I was pondering this question yesterday as I found an apparent link to a lecture…

Howard Wasserman over at Prawfs has a great conversation going on about this narrow but absolutely critical scholarship question:  how do you write?  Do you draft the piece freestyle, straight…

The Temple Law dean search has yielded three finalists: JoAnne Epps of Temple, Paul Schiff Berman of Connecticut (also a finalist at Arizona State), and Wendell Pritchett of Penn (on…

Here is one of those Steven Levitt Freakonomics mysteries I've been pondering recently.  As many people know, designer knockoff bags are sold by vendors on Manhattan's Canal Street.  You can…