Month: October 2009

Just to make it an even three in terms of pot posts for the weekend (see here and here), via Hit & Run, and according to the New York Times,…

The recent David Letterman scandal is renewing interest in the old (but still interesting) question of why blackmail is illegal. Lizzie Widdicombe takes up the case in The New Yorker,…

And none From the Law School?  I’m shocked.The Harvard Crimson profiles “Three Rock Star Professors” -- Niall Ferguson, N. Gregory Mankiw, and Robert A. Lue: They are the celebrity professor,…

Story here.

Since I already kicked off the weekend with one pot post, I thought I’d continue the trend by mentioning the excellent recent article in Fortune magazine by Roger Parloff, How…

As Illinois law prof Bob Lawless explains here, "median family income" is an important figure in bankruptcy.  For filings on or after November 1, 2009, the figures (by state and ...

Police in central Pennsylvania arrested 29-year-old Cesar Lopez after spotting him inside a convenience store with a bag of marijuana stuck to his forehead. Lopez apparently took off his baseball…

Via Rolfe Winkler:

The State of Massachusetts, so rich in many ways, is missing one crucial piece: a state operated law school.  Or at least that's the perspective the folks at Southern New…

I had lunch yesterday with a few of my colleagues.  Among other topics, we discussed Justice Scalia's recent comments concerning whether a cross is an appropriate symbol to honor all…