Month: June 2009

It's my great pleasure to welcome my colleague Mark Weidemaier into the faculty lounge.  Mark's going to be sitting with us for a spell.  Mark writes on a bunch of things,…

The University of Illinois admissions scandal, documented everwhere from Leiter's Law School Reports, to TaxProf, from ATL  to WSJ Law Blog continues to reverberate.  Now the past and present dean are speaking…

Yesterday, Villanova Law School Dean Mark Sargent resigned his position.  According to the information we've received, he stated that he stepped down for personal and medical reasons.  Professor Doris Brogan, who…

Last week, I blogged about the Ninth Circuit decision in Vernoff v. Astrue, which upheld the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) denial of child survivor benefits to Brandalynn Vernoff, a 10-year-old…

My brother just alerted me to a series of "demotivational posters" available online from Despair, Inc.  While my technological prowess is failing me, and I'm having trouble downloading the images,…

I submitted two articles to numerous journals earlier this year in March/April using the Expresso service.Two statistics:Percentage of journals that took action triggering the “confirmation of receipt” response at my…

Now who says that no one cares about nineteenth-century southern legal history? According to the AP, $493 in confederate currencywas found in a Morgan County [Alabama] court file containing documents about…

In a sharp divergence from the guidelines of some scientific organizations and the laws of other states, such as California, which forbid such payments, New York last week became the…

My colleauge Carol Brown has a new paper, Intent and Empirics: Race to the Subprime, up on ssrn, which turns to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act filings to dissect the racial…

Much has been made during the recent economic crisis of the vast difference in household savings rates between the United States and China.  The difference has led to the somewhat…