Month: October 2009

From the editors of the Yale Law Journal Online: ======================================= The Yale Law Journal is pleased to present its new online platform, The Yale Law Journal Online (http://www.yalelawjournal.org/).  YLJ Online…

from the October 1, 1930, WSJ (Dow 204.90 -3.24 (1.6%)): Wheat futures have plunged from 99 cents/bushel to below 73 cents in less than two months. This is sheer panic:…

'Academic doping' set to rise (HT: Freakonomics) Prior Lounge coverage of sports doping and cheating here and here. An open letter to the Nobel prize committee: create Nobel prizes for…

  Yale law professor Bill Eskridge testifies before Congress on the pending Employment and Non-Discrimination Act of 2009, which would "bar sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the workplace by…

Bob Herbert has an Op-Ed in today’s New York Times regarding the financial situation at UC Berkeley, and the economic problems facing the UC system and the state of California…

In the interests of FULL DISCLOSURE:  I'm on the dean search committee at my school and this post is NOT about any specific dean candidate so no inferences should be ...

Last week, I blogged about the Ochsner Hospital in Louisiana, which has indefinitely suspended operations at its in vitro fertilization center in Elmwood because of a mix-up in the labeling…

My sometimes co-author Sarah Ludington has an important new paper, "The Dogs that Did Not Bark: Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Silence of the Legal Academy During World War II,"…

Our friends at the CUNY School of Law are (or soon will be) on the move.  According to the press release earlier this week, the governing Board of Trustees has…

Reading the Charlotte Observer, and all the hand-wringing over the departure of Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis, got me thinking about the costs of America's regulatory flexibility.  Charlotte residents…