Month: December 2017

You know what we haven't had in, well, basically forever?  A building trivia question.  This is almost going to be so easy I shouldn't ask it, but my stock of…

If anyone today remembers Fishin' Blues, it is most likely the rollicking, good-time version released by the Lovin' Spoonful in 1965.  As with Going Up the Country, however, the original ...

For those of you who are still questioning the correlation between LSAT Scores and Bar Passage Rate, I recently compiled some statistics on the three InfiLaw schools which are extremely…

I'm excited to be back in the classroom in the spring and particularly excited to be teaching trusts and estates.  As I've been pulling my course together -- and dusting…

Writing at PrawfsBlawg, Howard Wasserman has an interesting take on my recent post about the La Marseillaise scene in Casablanca.  He calls it "the greatest heckler's veto in cinema history,"…

In light of the recently announced ban on the Russian team for the 2018 Winter Olympics, Scientific American has republished "The Scientific American Guide to Cheating in the Olympics." Here is the…

A recent article by David Youngblood argues that the La Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is the single greatest scene in cinema history.  I don't know enough film history to agree…

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a front-page article about the rise and fall of InfiLaw.  The article mentioned that when I was a candidate to be the Dean at…

Some readers may recall my post about the sketchy "Brain Health Quiz" used as a marketing device by North Shore University Health Systems.  My article about it appeared last August…

Over at the legal history blog Melissa Milewski spent last month talking about her new book Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End…