Month: July 2009

I'd told myself that I wouldn't blog about Henry Lewis Gates' arrest, because I have nothing to add that hasn't been said better by someone else already.  But I now…

Something that hasn't gotten the attention it deserves in the blogosphere is the conversation that Richard Posner had with a Duke Law School class led by David Levi and Mitu Gulati.  The…

An earlier post raised the topic of Triple Crown winners -- a player who, in a single season, leads his league in homers, runs batted in, and batting average.   The…

Naomi Cahn’s new book, Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation, is reviewed by Anne Lyerly in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. …

Wanna be a law school dean?Wanna live in the Dallas area?If you answered "yes" to these questions, then perhaps you should apply to be the founding dean at the start-up…

On Monday, I noted that 21 UC San Diego department heads had signed a letter sent to all UC Chancellors urging them to preserve its elite, world-class research campuses –…

Thanks to a friend's post on Facebook, I've just learned that Facebook now has a default feature that allows Facebook advertisers to use your news feed and wall to sell…

In a post on Wednesday, When Taxpayers Welcome Taxes, Steven Levitt discussed this CNN report on Oakland’s new “pot tax”: OAKLAND, California (CNN) -- Oakland's bid to become the first…

I've been following the discussions of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr's arrest on the blogs and elsewhere, including today's report on CNN quoting President Obama saying that the police had…

If you haven't been following the story, NYU Law invited a scholar (and former legislator) from Singapore to teach human rights courses this fall.   While a member of the Singapore Parliment,…