Month: June 2010

A few days ago the White House announced the appointment of 13 incredibly talented men and women as White House Fellows.   You'll find brief bios on these outstanding individuals…

I guess I'm going to lose a big chunk of my work week watching the Kagan hearings.  Probably you are, too.So why not start the week with University of New…

The Wall Street Journal has a story on the controversy at UT-Austin on re-naming of the Simkins dormitory.

Are you considering adding the new iPhone 4 to your technology arsenal?  Houston Chronicle columnist Dwight Silverman has a favorable review here.

Say hey!  Willie Mays here.  I was quite a phenomenal batter during my career, amassing over 3,200 hits, walloping 660 homers, driving in over 1,900 runs, and finishing with a…

Next February the Washington and Lee Law School will host a conference on "Restitution Rollout: The Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment."  From the call for papers: With the accolades…

My colleague Bill Marshall has a post up over at Huffinton on Michael Gershon's op-ed in the Washington Post on Al Franken's speech on originalism at the ACS meeting. 

My caption is prompted by a comment posted to an earlier iteration of our list of "visitors."  In many instances, the info on our list has been provided by the…

In this series of posts on the Jérôme Kerviel trial, I’ve argued that, contrary to Société Générale’s contentions that they were duped by a genius, the bank itself is to…

The media is loving the law school GPA inflation story. As we learn from scholars of social crises, news stories work best - and gain the most traction - when…