Month: June 2010

The trial of Jérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader blamed by Société Générale for losses of €4.9bn, begins tomorrow in Paris.  According to the FT: He faces up to five years…

The University of Texas-Austin's Office of the Vice-President for Diversity and Community Engagement has assembled an advisory group to investigate the proper response to Tom Russell's call for renaming Simkins…

Doubles.  Triples.  Home runs.In the history of major league baseball, only seven players have twenty or more hits in each of those three categories in a single season (the so-called…

It seems that in a number of areas of legal scholarship (intellectual property, privacy just to name some that I follow), law profs are increasingly writing about extra-legal issues -…

Anyone who has ever walked a dog knows that the animals have an exceptional and abiding interest in urine.  What we didn't know was that their excretory speciality could have important…

Here are a couple of late breaking postings for visitors this coming school year: Barry University School of Law is in need of two visitors for the Fall. The classes…

Flying anywhere this summer?In its "Ten Things" column this month, SmartMoney Magazine explores "Ten Things Baggage Handlers Won't Tell You."  Included on the list compiled by author Jami Makan are: …

 Victor David Hans0n, a classics scholar (Stanford Ph.D. in classics and for many years a professor at Cal State Fresno) and farmer, has an essay on "Obama Versus the Way…

So in my (probably) final set of musings for this evening, I was wondering where university-based law reviews originally came from.  Of course today most law schools have more than…

I've talked to a lot of deans in recent years about fund-raising strategies, and the common wisdom seems to be that it's always easier to raise money for a building…