Month: November 2010

Fertility and taxes are seemingly unrelated topics with surprising intersections.  Consider this example. Taxpayers can exclude up to $250,000 (if single) or $500,000 (if married and filing jointly) of gain…

The ABA has come out with its annual roll of top legal blogs - the Blawg 100 - and we're there among the law prof weblogs.  (Oddly, Volokh - last year's…

My friend, and former South Texas colleague, Paul McGreal has been named law dean at Dayton.  Congrats, Paul! The Dayton announcement is here.

Lounge readers have no doubt followed the Eurozone's recent travails with interest.  Below is a guest post from Mitu Gulati on one of the recent fix-it proposals: Collective Action Clauses.…

Best wishes to our friend, University of Mississippi law dean Richard Gershon, and his colleagues as they move into their new offices this week.  Pictured:  artist rendering of the new…

  Six hundred students in Professor Richard Quinn's class at the University of Central Florida are retaking a mid-term exam after a cheating scandal (reported here, here and here, e.g.) that…

Poking my head up from work this Thanksgiving weekend, I see that the University of Michigan Law School has announced a call for papers for the conference “'We Must First…

In a new paper posted to SSRN, David A. Matsa and Amalia R. Miller examine the impact of the Norwegian quota (roughly 40% of board seats must be held by…

On this week's Smiley and West radio show (here), law prof Michelle Alexander (Ohio State) speaks about her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness…

I have several student recommendations on my “to do” list for this weekend.  Writing many  in a concentrated period has focused my attention on voice and tone.  Looking at the…