Month: October 2009

Recently in the FT (HT: Lisa Fairfax),  Alison Maitland and Sarah Halls rank the top 50 women in world business and discuss the evidence surrounding gender diversity and firm performance:…

Following my practice from the lateral moves list, I'm not moving the dean search list to the top...for fear that the permanent link will be lost.  Instead, I'll note that…

John Cassidy in The New Yorker on this year’s economics Nobels (includes a roundup of links to reactions from the econ community).  There’s been less talk in the blogoshere about…

I don't drink beer or energy drinks (unless one includes the "buzz" I get from an occasional Pepsi or Coca-Cola).  Nevertheless, this "David v. Goliath" story holds some appeal for…

From the Crimson.

I have a couple of occasional series  --the law of people magazine, the "this is why...." series (as in this is why it's called the moonlight and magnolia school and…

The Boston Globe has the details.  The bill would study Massachusetts' connections to slavery.  Sounds pretty similar to Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, which we've spoken about…

Arthur Levitt, “We need an orderly way to let institutions fail.”  From the FT (via Paul Kedrosky): So in the unique series of events that started with the fall of…

1) The inaugural class of the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University posted very impressive numbers on the July 2009 bar exam in Pennsylvania.  Kudos to Dean Roger…

My co-author, John Conley (UNC) will be giving an interdisciplinary (their terminology, but perhaps we should say “multidisciplinary”?) seminar sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center…