Month: April 2009

Ok--I'm resurfacing briefly from grading trusts and estates exams.  Been quiet of late because I've been busy.  However, there are a series of history of the book posts that I'm…

This is a kerfuffle really worth watching.  At a conference recently, Justice Scalia made comments suggesting that he has limited passion for the notion of privacy protection in an Internet…

Despite the hiring freezes this past year, many law schools, including my own, will be welcoming new tenure track faculty and perhaps some new visitors as well over coming months.  ...

Over at TaxProf Blog, Paul Caron has taken the two components of US News that most folks think have some merit - the peer assessment survey number (reputation among academics)…

Who knew?  Apparently Portland, Oregon's Concordia University  had been planning on opening a new law school in Boise next year, and now it's putting that plan off to a later date.…

The WSJ Law Blog tells us that there are new previews coming to the local Regal Cinema (at least the local cinema in D.C.) and they're  not going to be…

Our friends over at HUP blog are talking about Judge Posner's forthcoming book A Failure of Capitalism on the crash of 08.  It's due out in May and it's a…

Ben Franklin once remarked, “Fish and visitors stink after three days.”  My stint as a guest blogger started with my first post back on February 23, so I’m waaaaaaay past…

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Contra Costa County, located outside of San Francisco, is going to severly cut back on prosecution of smaller criminal offenses: Misdemeanors such as assaults,…

Supposing that some of us are actually going to attempt to read some books for fun over the summer [not, of course, implying that reading law review articles and recent…