Month: August 2009

Randall Bezanson and Andrew Finkelman have posted a most creative work, "Trespassory Art," on ssrn.  In short they argue for an expansion of the rights of artists to trespass on…

We had our faculty retreat last week, which, strangely, got me thinking about drilling holes in my head.  So I decided to do some internet digging on the phenomenon.Via Wired…

In this iTunes podcast, Dan Ariely (of Predictably Irrational fame) interviews Duke law prof Barak Richman about Richman’s current research on insurance coverage of outpatient mental health services. John Yoo…

A colleague of mine today raised an interesting question to which I don't know the answer.  He wondered if anyone was writing on the parallels between cyber-terrorism and the laws…

In his wonderful book, Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse, Todd Clear shows that prisoners come overwhelmingly from a small number of communities.  These affected communities are…

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Just back in the office briefly after a trip to Philadelphia.  Couple of really cool things to share right now, before my trip down to lovely Athens tomorrow for a…

Neville Longbottom, the notoriously incompetent young wizard from Harry Potter, must have just materialized in Cambridge, Mass.  How else can we explain the fact that Harvard Yard has just been convered…

Mike Konczal, Tyler Cowen, and Felix Salmon on NPR’s Planet Money answer the question: has financial innovation in the last 25 years been positive or negative?  Podcast here:  http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pmoney/2009/08/podcast08.17.09.mp3?_kip_ipx=725366478-1250611423 Duke History…

Thanks to Tiffani Darden for forwarding me this link about a protest at an Orlando Chick-Fil-A related to patrons' rights to breastfeed in the restaurant without "covering up".  Having asked…