Month: March 2010

Ray Madoff's Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead has just been published by Yale University Press.  Here's the description from the YUP website: This book takes…

The conference below is being organized and run by my colleague, Guy-Uriel Charles.  As with everything else Guy does, this promises to be a wonderful event.  The participant list is…

Yesterday the local newspaper offered "three practical jokes to play on your kids for April Fools' Day."  Coming in at #3:  "Tell them they were adopted and now their birth…

As usual, many bloggers - profs and law review editors -  have been commenting on the spring submission window and strategies for article placement, including best times to submit articles. …

Ming Zhu has a new paper out on SSRN - An Empirical Study of Race and Law School Hiring - that will be of interest to those who think about…

Let's see, an article about pedagogy, law and economics (and the critique thereof), torts, Cardozo and Ponser....  A lot of people are going to be talking about this, I think. …

The Supreme Court this morning handed down its opinion in Jones v. Harris, unanimously reversing Chief Judge Easterbrook’s Seventh Circuit decision (opinion by Justice Alito, with a concurrence by Justice…

So I guess it's that time of year that all professors and students are turning their minds to the dreaded spring examination period. For courses where I utilize end-of-semester exams,…

Readers who enjoy the intersection of tort law and cyberlaw may wish to download an article recently posted to SSRN and authored by Leslie Yalof Garfield (pictured), a professor at…

Bridget Crawford's post on Leslie M. Rose's new article, "The Supreme Court and Gender-Neutral Language: Setting the Standard or Lagging Behind?" reminds me that I should re-post an entry I put…