Month: April 2012

Deborah Rhode (Stanford) is now speaking at the MSU Symposium on "Gender and the Legal Profession's Pipeline to Power." She began her talk with two framing points.  First, progress [on…

  The MSU Law Review Symposium on "Gender and the Legal Profession's Pipeline to Power" is in full swing of today.  I'll be live blogging and tweeting (@ProfBCrawford  #genderandlegalprof) throughout…

A recent post by my friend Steve Bainbridge reminds me that I’ve been meaning to weigh in on the most recent in a long line of controversies surrounding the Volcker…

With April 15 just around the corner, you might be asking yourself:  "What is income?" Here's the answer:  "Income is anything defined as income that is not not income." You'll…

I'm very pleased to announce that Drexel Law School will host the inaugural meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Law and Society Association on October 19-20, 2012.  The conference theme is Law, ...

One of my financial derivatives students – Shinichi Yoshiya – has posted to SSRN a very informative paper on the choice among collateral protection regimes as the swaps market moves…

I see in the actual faculty lounge here in Chapel Hill that the new Michigan Law Review book review issue is out. This one runs to 303 pages of book reviews…

The University of Missouri - Columbia has announced that Gary Myers, the associate dean for research at the University of Mississippi School of Law, will become its new dean effective…

Following up on the discussion of late about compensation to sterilization victims, now that I have a picture of the Eugenics Highway Marker in Raleigh, I want to make some…

My friend, Larry Catá Backer, is the incoming chair of Pennsylvania State University Faculty Senate.  On April 2, 2012, he delivered this address before a symposium sponsored by the American…