Month: August 2009

Senator Cornyn's remarks, published in today's Houston Chronicle as an editorial, can be viewed here.  In part:"Judge Sotomayor's speeches suggest a surprisingly radical view of the law....  In her speeches,…

Tulane law professor Brooke Overby has unexpectedly passed away at the age of 49. Professor Overby graduated first in her law class at Iowa in 1987, where she served as…

Given that we're all blogging about what and when to submit articles in the fall, has anyone given any thought to using LexOpus (W&L's newish submission service)?  It looks interesting…

In what the Wall Street Journal Law Blog is calling “the best fair use controversy ever,” the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has “tweaked” an old…

Most readers have seen The Paper Chase at least once.  The film, released in 1973, starred Timothy Bottoms (as law student James Hart), Lindsey Wagner (the non-bionic daughter of a…

The final installment of Melissa Jacoby's and Mirya Holman's guest posting on their new article:Today we’ll finish talking about our paper on medical bills and bankruptcy (our first post featured…

By popular request, another (earlier) Merle Hazard video:    From the chorus: Inflation or deflation? Tell me, if you can Will we be Zimbabwe Or will we be Japan?  Credit markets came undone And still are…

Just looking at the post on entry level hiring over at Prawfs and I realized that the coming weekend is the last free weekend before those of us on law…

Perhaps this message is a bit late, but today is the deadline for submitting your FAR form and payment to the AALS if you wish to be included in the…

Obviously, I am too easily distracted FROM the fall submission window by blogging ABOUT the fall submission window, but if you haven't already seen it, you should check out Dave…