Month: July 2017

My brother (who is a music prof at UMN) sent me this article with a list of the ten most "influential" Minnesotans in history.  You can read the article for…

In this article on Slate, Joel Cohen (a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan) interviews U.S. Judges Richard Posner and Jed Rakoff on whether there should be age limits…

Wait, Norman Dorsen has just passed away, too?  Good Lord this has been a tough week.  In fact, I see that both Professors Dorsen and Ferguson passed away on July…

I am very sad to report on the passing of Robert A. Ferguson, who was  the George Edward Woodberry emeritus professor at Columbia Law School.  I did not have the…

As reported by Inside Higher Ed, Charles Armstrong recently had to return the 2014 John K. Fairbank Prize in Asian History, awarded by the American Historical Association, because it was…

The New York Times is talking about Edward Albee's instructions to his executor to destroy his unfinished work.  (And congratulations to law professors Lior Stahilevitz and Eva Subotnik who're quoted…

I have a guest post today at the Virology Blog about Dr. Michael Sharpe's recent presentation on ethics, ME/CFS, and "the future of science," which I have copied in full…

To my Canadian friends and family, Mazel tov oyf Kanadeh tog, und far 150 yor:  Azoy, Ich zugn: zayn freydik far an ander hundert und finftzek Kanadyen yor.

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