Mid-week Links

The Odds
On Athletes Spending Time Behind Bars This Season (via Above The Law).

In The New Yorker, economist Andrew Zimbalist
on the sports
recession.

Mary Dudziak at Legal History Blog with book reviews (here
and here)
of interest to legal historians.

Via the
Financial Times, there’s a big fight a-brewin’ . . . and it’s over Times
New Roman:

typography may present a genteel
exterior, but it’s an art form punctuated by bitter rivalries and rampant
plagiarism. . . .

The Times newspaper itself has begun
accepting the possibility of an alternative history to its famous font. In
2007, the newspaper stated that Times New Roman was designed by Stanley Morison,
Victor Lardent “and possibly Starling Burgess”. 

(HT: Tyler
Cowen)

Above
The Law on Working Mother Magazine’s list of 50 Best Law Firms For
Women (more coverage here,
at ABA Journal).

Becker and
Posner on the financial crisis.  Becker:
The World Recession is Ending: What Next? And Posner:
It's Not a Recession, and It's Not Over.

And on the media industry, Law Librarian Blog with the CRS
Report, Tyler Cowen with Can
Murdoch charge for the web?, and Felix Salmon with How
the link economy benefits Reuters.