From Adjunct
Law Prof Blog, via Above the Law,
Keefe v. New York Law School,
___Misc. 3d___(N.Y. Co. Nov. 17, 2009):
Plaintiff, a current student at New York Law School,
("NYLS") is suing NYLS as a result of a "C" that Plaintiff
received in his Legal Writing II course. Plaintiff now moves for an injunction
requiring the law school to change its grading system from letter grades to
pass/fail. Defendant/New York Law School moves to dismiss. For the reasons
stated below, the motion is granted.
Writers block? In
the
WSJ (subscription), from writing in the bathroom (Junot Díaz) to dressing
in character (Nicholson Baker), 11 top authors share their methods for getting
the story on the page.
NY Times, via Mark
Thoma, Post-Mortems
Reveal Obvious Risk at Banks:
Of the nation’s 8,100 banks, about 2,200 — ranging from
community lenders in the Rust Belt to midsize regional players — far exceed the
risk thresholds that would ordinarily call for greater scrutiny from management
and regulators, according to Foresight Analytics, a banking research firm.
About 600 small banks are in danger of collapsing because of
troubled real estate loans if they do not shore up their finances soon,
according to the firm. About 150 lenders have failed since the crisis erupted
in mid-2007.
Like A Virgin (Again).
From the NY
Times, via Al
Roth:
Conservative [Egyptian]
lawmakers have called for a ban on imports of a Chinese-made kit meant to help
women fake their virginity. The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, which is
distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo and costs about $30, is intended to
help newly married women fool their husbands into believing they are virgins,
an essential marriage requirement for women in much of the Middle East, by
leaking a blood-like substance when inserted and broken. Sheik Sayed Askar, a
member of the parliamentary committee on religious affairs, demanded the
government take responsibility for fighting the product, which he said would
make it easier for women to give in to temptation.
Larry Catá Backer on Disciplining
Education
Via Dan
Ernst:
I learned recently of the BBC radio series, The Cases That Changed Our
World. The latest episode is "The legal case of
the snail found in the ginger beer ," Donoghue v Stevenson
(1932).
James Surowiecki in the New Yorker on The
Debt Economy. Then there’s also
this: