Month: August 2011

After a seven month hiatus, the folks blogging at Law School Innovation - Doug Berman, Anupam Chander, and Mark Osler - felt the time was right, and they've re-ignited the…

In a few days Lee Roy Chapman's major article on Tate Brady, a leading figure in the growth of Tulsa in the early twentieth century, will be published in the…

image (c) Getty Images; source here Hurricane Irene has come and gone from New York City.  In Lower Manhattan, where I live, damage seems to be minimal.  Both the Hudson…

I finally had the chance to see The Help.  I actually enjoyed it and wasn't nearly as bothered as some by the movie. Couple of quick thoughts here.  First off,…

Here in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg has ordered the mandatory evacuation of approximately 370,000 people from  low-lying coastal areas (so-called "Zone A" areas, marked in orange on the map…

I see that Paul Caron is blogging about  the new paper by Joni Hersch and W. Kip Viscusi (both of Vanderbilt Law School), entitled "Law and Economics as a Pillar of Legal Education,"…

From an email that I received in recent days: The University of California, Hastings College of the Law invites applications to fill two to three positions from either lateral candidates with…

While playing around on Expresso lately (yes, it's that time of year!), I noticed not for the first time the option when you're trying to expedite an article of deciding…

Via Greg Mankiw:   From the lyrics: Two triple As, One double A plus Our debt is rated thus The guys who bet on Abacus Won’t double down on us.…

From an email that I received earlier this week: THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL invites applications for one or more tenure-track faculty positions to begin Fall 2012 (negotiable).  Applications…