Month: October 2010

In May, I wrote this post on the "Baseball and American Culture" symposium hosted annually and co-sponsored by SUNY-Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.  A few…

Not satisfied to sell delicious beef-related burgers and dairy-based shakes, McDonalds is now poised to enter the wedding industry.  They're piloting this plan in Hong Kong, but I'm sure McWeddings will…

According to the Boston Globe, there are four finalists in the dean search for the law school previously named Franklin Pierce:  retiring New Hampshire Chief Justice John Broderick, Jim Lupo of…

UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DAVID A. CLARKE SCHOOL OF LAW (UDC-DCSL) invites applications to fill the tenure-track position of Director of Legal Writing. They will consider exceptionally talented…

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate in Arizona State's excellent Aspiring Law Professors conference.   Several of us shared our (sometimes conflicting) advice about how to…

John Neibel (pictured), whose teaching career at the University of Houston Law Center began in 1956 and lasted until his retirement in 2001, passed away in recent days.  Professor Neibel…

Time for another installment of "you know you live in a university town when...." This Thursday the Varsity Theater will be showing "To Kill a Mockingbird" in celebration of the…

Standardized tests are biased against students who don’t give a sh*t.  This is clearly a serious failure of American public education: school is supposed to prepare students for the real…

Our focus for the few remaining weeks of baseball season will be on World Series trivia. Mickey Mantle holds the record for most career WS home runs, with 18.  Can…

One of the nice things about living in the same area as one of your co-bloggers is the ability to have actual face-to-face discussions once in a while.  Or even…