Month: July 2010

The AALS Section on Children and the Law has issued a call for papers for the 2011 San Francisco meeting on "Our Children --  The World's Children: The Effects of…

Well, this was a fast resolution to the controversy surrounding the Simkins dormitory on the UT Austin campus.  It was just at the end of March that Tom Russell's paper…

Despite the fact that my broadway trivia is no match for the readers of this blog, I'm going to try again.  So here it is ....What broadway musical from the…

Patrick Shin and Mitu Gulati have a new paper up on ssrn, which was part of the board diversity conference at UNC last spring.  Their abstract is as follows:Diversity initiatives…

Judge Touro of the District of Massachusetts has now ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.   This provision mandates that the federal government may…

My friend (and Suffolk law prof) Jeff Lipshaw sends along this conference announcement:"Contract as Promise" Symposium – Save the Date – March 25, 2011In 1981, Professor Charles Fried published a…

KKR is going public later this month (story here).  Some of us are old enough to remember the merger, buyout, and takeover mania of the 1980s.  Some of the higher-profile…

Baseball's mid-summer All-Star game will be held next Tuesday in Anaheim.   Readers of this blog know that I'm a die-hard Cardinals fan.   So given next week's big event,…

Today's question involves broadway musicals on the silver screen.  Here goes...What popular over-dubbing artist made a rare appearance herself as a singing nun in the movie version of The Sound…

In an attempt to counteract some of the sports trivia over the summer (no offense, Tim!), I've decided to add some broadway musical trivia for those of us who couldn't…