Spidey in Trouble?

According to a recent blog post, Columbia Pictures may have officially ended its relationship with Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi with respect to the popular Spiderman movie franchise.  There have…

Calling All Contracts Profs!

Our friends at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV are hosting a two-day contracts conference in late February.  From the announcement:Reviving the spirit of prior International Conferences…

How Can I Get . . .?

How can I get my boyfriend to _____? How can I get my girlfriend to _____? You could fill in the blanks yourself, but Dan Ariely’s post using Google to…

Pros and Cons of Peer Review

At an AALS Annual Meeting panel on the electronification of law libraries over the weekend, an interesting point was made about the need (or otherwise) for peer reviewed law journals. …

Route One Gas Stations

Anyone else around here like pictures of old gas stations?  Is it just me?  I've collected some photographs of gas stations along US Route One in southern Virginia and northern ...

Do Top Scholars Make Better Administrators?

Via Peter Klein at Organizations and Markets, Amanda Goodall, of Warwick Business School and author of Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should be Led by Top Scholars (Princeton…