Month: July 2009

In just a few weeks, the fall semester will start.  Many of us will welcome one or more colleagues who are beginning what we all hope will be illustrious academic…

Now that I've introduced the paper that  Stephen Davis and I have out on probate in the old South and written about the county where our study is centered, I'd like…

Bailout -- the new video from Merle HazardFrom the chorus:We got a great big bailout, ten trillion bucks and moreUnprecedented bailout, it costs more than a warWe bailed out even…

Number One of the Top 10 Reasons You Failed The Bar Exam.Other reasons include: -       -Inspired by Sarah Palin, you lost a week thinking that the best way…

As reported earlier this week, the senior senator from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchison (pictured), will vote "no" on Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation  to the Supreme Court (the story also notes the…

On Monday, I blogged about the announcement by the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority that it will reconsider its restrictive caps on payments to egg and sperm donors, due…

Following up my post on the interview of Richard Posner by the Duke Law School class co-taught by David Levi and Mitu Gulati, I thought I'd talk a little about…

USC’s Daria Roithmayr and Duke’s Guy-Uriel Charles on Why Race Still Matters at CNN. On Sotomayor: No one was surprised when the subject of race dominated the public conversation during…

"Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all…

In case you haven't already heard it, it's here. What's remarkable is the degree to which the caller - Lucia Whalen, a Harvard Magazine fundraiser - didn't seem at all…