Month: June 2010

What can you say?  Three law professors have passed away in the last week and a half.  Our condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of Dean Brian Bromberger, Professor Don…

I've been musing lately about ways in which we say things we don't mean without actually lying.  This has arisen from my attempts to explain to my four year old…

In this post from last August, I proclaimed my profound joy that the CBS television series The Paper Chase had FINALLY (!) become available on DVD.  Fans may recall that…

 Via Calculated Risk. Cartoon from Eric G. Lewis -- www.EricGLewis.com (site coming soon) For more serious thoughts on the BP oil spill-financial crisis connection, see this piece from Kenneth Rogoff.

Now that our nation has abandoned the phrase, "drill, baby drill" -- amazing how quickly some phrases go out of style, isn't it? -- it's time for a new phrase:…

 Ah, how's that for a title of a blog post?  I've been thinking about Confederate Memorial Hall of late -- and so that got me to wondering what was the…

The fifth annual Conglomerate Junior Scholars Workshop is underway and open to all untenured scholars in the general area of business law.  During the virtual workshop, the Conglomerate will link…

Last week, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter delivered a commencement address at Harvard.  You can find a transcript of his remarks here.