Mid-week Links

Posh
Law Prof Pads, via Above The Law, including an $8.45 million Manhattan
pied-à-terre recently purchased by Daniel Fischel, former dean of the
University of Chicago Law School. 
The others, as you might expect, are at Harvard, Yale, NYU, and
Columbia.  Highest priced law prof
pad listed?  $30 million.  Yep, you read it right, $30 million.  

Relatedly, for those who missed it in late August, the
Boston Globe ran this story about the “new owner of the grand Victorian
home on Irving Street in Cambridge where Julia Child, the doyenne of la cuisine
bourgeoise, lived, cooked, and warbled for 43 years” – Harvard law professor
Michael Klarman and his family.

Via
Brian Leiter, William Sage (University of Texas at Austin) and Susan Wolf
(Minnesota) have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the
National Academy of Sciences. 

Eric Posner and Henry
Farrell discuss Eric’s new book
on bloggingheads.

Mike Dorf, Spork
Puts New Twist on Old Rules/Standards Question

The Superfreakonomics controversy continues (See the first
round in Weekend
Links):

            Dubner:
The
Anatomy of a Smear

            Brad
DeLong’s Last
Post on SuperFreakonomics

            Via
Brad DeLong, Four Defenenders of SuperFreakonomics (Bryan
Caplan, Tim
Harford, Joshua Gans, and Robert Waldmann)

Via
Greg Mankiw, some reactions from Yoram Bauman (the Stand-up Economist – see
video below) here
and here,
and an
exchange with Levitt.

Above
The Law
reports that Stanford Law is moving to
a quarter system, and Steve
Bainbridge suspects that quarters are in his future as well.

Via The Blog of Legal Times, Judge
Gives OK to Examine GMU Professor's Job Record in Harassment Case

Paul
Horwitz and Jack
Chin with advice for aspiring law profs on Choosing Among “Lower-Tier” Schools.

Instapundit:
“Is the Blogosphere Superior to the
Twitterverse? They’re just different, okay? — and there are
enough electrons and pixels to go around.”