Month: January 2014

Here's an inspiring video about the Ninth Circuit judge I clerked for, the Honorable Ronald M. Gould.   He was a great judge to work for, and this is both a wonderful testament to…

In my last post, I discussed a new paper, A Primer on Kidney Transplantation: Anatomy of the Shortage, that Phil Cook and I just posted to SSRN.  The paper provides…

Following up on my recent posts on LSAC data on LSAT administrations and applications for fall 2014, I wanted to call attention to these statements from the LSAC:  "As of 1/17/14, there are 171,899 fall…

I've previously noted that there are significant regional differences in the cost of law school.  Put simply, it's cheaper to go to law school in Philadelphia than in many other…

The National Business Law Scholars Conference (NBLSC) will be held on Thursday, June 19th and Friday, June 20th at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.   This is the fifth annual…

I spent a lot of Thanksgiving day reading a powerful and moving collection, Letters to My Younger Self, which was co-edited by Jayne Thompson and Emily DeFreitas.  The book, which is…

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In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Gary Becker and Julio Elias have an essay, Cash for Kidneys: The Case for a Market for Organs, in which they argue that paying…

As I was sitting at my desk last December taking a little break from putting what I hope are the final edits into University, Court, and Slave I saw that…

When I have some more time I want to talk a lot about David Sloss' "Polymorphous Public Law Litigation: The Forgotten History of Nineteenth Century Public Law Litigation."  Cribbing now…