Month: September 2009

From the excellent blog, News from 1930, which provides a daily news summary based on the author’s reading of the Wall Street Journal from the corresponding day in 1930.  Yesterday’s…

This week's Chroncile Review has an essay by Mark Lilla, "Taking the Right Seriously," that you may be interested in.  I think Lilla under-serves the conservative movement (and those of…

Georgetown law prof Chai Feldblum nominated as a Commissioner to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  Katherine Franke has the story: This is huge not only because Feldblum would be the…

And embryos too?  And how is Nancy Hersch always there to see it happen?  It’s an address -- 1700 California Street, San Francisco. And it’s the home of both Laurel…

Last month I attended a fabulous seminar at the Thomas Cobb house in Athens, Georgia.  The reading for the seminar was Cobb's An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery,…

Over at Prawfsblawg, one can cut the anxiety with a chainsaw as candidates (many adopting the moniker "anon" or some variation thereof) trade updates and questions on interview scheduling for…

In my prior post on this topic, Money Is Diversity Or Diversity Is Money?, I discussed performance-based rationales for board diversity, but noted that there is no consensus on the…

I haven't blogged about rankings in, oh, a while--maybe not since the US News rankings came out this spring?  (Ok -- I had a fun post on the Southern California Interdisciplinary…

Am I the only one who enjoyed this weekend story about levitating mice? Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge have succeeded in levitating mice...."We first tried…

What not to say on your blog (especially if you’re a public defender): that your client lied to the court, and that certain judges are clueless or a-holes, among other…