Month: August 2010

The semester begins for me today (early, perhaps, but we're done before Thanksgiving).  I'm teaching both Secured Transactions and Payment Systems, so by the end of the week (if not…

Working away on edits on "the most esteemed act of my life," especially the part on Henry Watson, a lawyer from Greensboro.  He wrote home to his mother in Connecticut…

I'm the only pitcher in MLB history whose strike-out victims have included Hank Aaron, Ken Griffey, Roger Maris, and Mark McGwire.  Who am I?Pictured:  Nolan Ryan (card #4 from the…

 Well, it's time for that annual ritual: the visits to faculty offices by students looking for a note topic. Many congratulations to you all on making whatever review.  It's going ...

Kudos to our friends at Liberty University School of Law, which received full ABA accreditation in recent days.  My personal congrats go out to founding dean Bruce Green.

Kent Syverud (pictured), law dean at Washington University, has been named a trustee of the  Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust, established to address claims arising from the recent disaster in…

Our friends at the Charlotte School of Law have posted an announcement concerning hiring needs in the areas of Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure,…

Returning to the subject of  my post of a few weeks back, "Happy Yet?" (which is about Nancy Levit and Douglas Linder's The Happy Lawyer)....   Reading the ads in…

 A few weeks ago, we blogged about the paper, An Option Value Problem from Seinfeld, by Avinash Dixit (Princeton University).  From this weekend’s Dear Economist (Tim Harford) column: I have…

Earlier this week Alex Rodriguez became the newest member of the 60o homer club.  He is the youngest player in MLB history to achieve the feat.   For some fascinating…