Month: March 2012

Brooklyn Law School has named Nicholas Allard as its new dean.  Allard comes from a political background.  He is currently chair of the Lobbying, Political, and Election law practice at…

The LA Times reports: "Justices Poised to Strike Down Entire Health Care Law" CNN reports: "Supreme Court Appears Willing to Let Most of Health Care Law Stand" How the hell…

This is cool!  I want to cite something from wikipedia in my next law review article ... or try to, at least.  And later today I'm going to be posting…

This Thursday and Friday the University of Maryland's English Department is hosting what promises to be a terrific conference, "Race, Law, and American Literary Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference." Stephen M.…

I'm hearing a lot of pundits who think that Obama has much to fear from the Supreme Court's health care decision.  These folks say that if the law is upheld,  the…

Arizona State University announced, yesterday, that it has appointed interim Dean Douglas Sylvester as the school's new permanent dean.  Sylvester, who joined the law school in 2002, has a very…

Been having some fun of late in property class -- we discussed what Marc Roark over at The Literary Table calls the race nuisance and Americn jazz cases yesterday: Truehart ...

I was on an undergraduate thesis committee recently -- shocking to me how good undergraduate research is these days.   Makes me think I need to step up the quality…

“based on analysis of comments on unicycling forums . . .” Full article: Shuster, S. (2012). The evolution of humor from male aggression. Psychology Research and Behavior Management DOI: 10.2147/PRBM.S29126  Story here.…

A true media hound! His latest comments as reported on the Huff Post: Geraldo Rivera doubled down on his incendiary comments about Trayvon Martin during a Friday appearance on "The…