Month: April 2010

On this date (and for the first time) in baseball history, a batter hit a home run off of a pitcher who had already won over three hundred games and…

Baseball fans who enjoy working crossword puzzles may enjoy the challenge found here.

 . . . all 196 pages of it, is here, via Felix Salmon. Yes, I know, I know that I promised a wrap-up post, but real life intervened – the…

This week I read Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching:  A Primer for New (and Not So New) Professors, co-authored by Howard Katz and Kevin O'Neill and published by…

From Philadelphia comes news of a new literary magazine that's about to launch, called ... The Pedestrian.  I love their logo -- reminds me of Emerson's eyeball ... except this…

In 2004, a film named Downfall was released.  I don't know what was in the whole movie, but it featured a scene designed to be a realistic account of Hitler…

I've just learned that one Warren Emerson (a pseudonym, I'm led to believe) has begun blogging at theliterarytable.com.  One of the things I'm going to do is to try to…

Here's an abstract from a new study by Jason Rydberg and William Terrill in the Police Quarterly: In the past, police scholars have examined the impact of higher education on…

Georgetown University law students and faculty are discussing whether to expand the credit value of the school's externship program.  Georgetown offers a maximum of 2 credits for externships and students…

 Christopher Schroeder, Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy at Duke, has been confirmed by the United States Senate to the post of assistant attorney general…