Month: December 2009

We come to the end of another calendar year, when thoughts may turn to resolutions for the upcoming year.  Lose weight.  Exercise.  Be more patient.  Learn to play the cello. …

I just returned today from my extended visit to Israel, where I spent the month of December sightseeing, conferencing, teaching, presenting papers (here and here), and meeting new friends.  I…

Reading in one of the antebellum orations (an address at Catawba College in 1854) I came across this statement: "Revolutions in society and government succeed each other as rapidly as…

 Talk about an embarrassment of riches!  How many law schools can react to the sudden loss of a dean by naming an interim dean with the gravitas of Judith Areen?…

Yesterday, thanks to the organizational energies of the amazing Yuval Feldman, I spent the day at Bar-Ilan giving a faculty workshop and meeting some of the faculty.  I had already…

Brian Tamanaha's comments on my earlier post about faculty scholarship got me realizing that I really had posted it out of context without explaining that I had also been having…

I've been thinking a lot lately about the role of the law school and university administration with respect to faculty scholarship.  Starting with a couple of propositions that may not…

I've got a couple of nice photos of monuments in Oxford, North Carolina.  First, the obligatory Confederate Monument.  The neighborhood around the monument's undergoing some construction, obviously.  Within sight of…

A few days ago, I had the chance to visit the University of Tel Aviv Law School to present my latest research (which I’m striving to make SSRN-ready in the…

In terms of holiday movies, so far I've seen Avatar and Up in the Air.  Surprisingly, I can highly recommend both, although Up in the Air is understandably a little…