Month: January 2019

Over the years, I have developed some rubrics for writing that I try to follow without exception. They are not the standard editing rules (which I also respect), but rather…

Stanford Law professor Marcus Cole has been named the new dean of the University of Notre Dame School of Law.   He joined the Stanford faculty in 1997.  Cole is a…

This just in: THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL is seeking to hire a visiting professor for the fall 2019 semester and/or the spring 2020 semester. For more information about…

BDS is the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. In the below video, the Prime Minister of Canada explains why he opposes it:  

There are many good reasons – both humane and political – to wish Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a speedy and complete recovery from her recent lung cancer surgery. ...

The New Riders of the Purple Sage opened for the Grateful Dead at the famous Berkeley Community Theater concert in the summer of 1971 -- from which I was kicked ...

As I have written before, the website Science Based Medicine is a daily must-read for anyone interested in developments in medicine, or simply in critical thinking. The five or six ...

I have a piece on Slate this morning, once again addressing the absence of a Code of Conduct for the U.S. Supreme Court. Here are some key paragraphs: The first…

This just in: The University of Miami invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of Law. The next Dean should be an innovative thinker and…

Yesterday's New York Times Book Review includes the following sentence from Charles Graeber’s The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer, as quoted in a review by Mimi Swartz: [He was] ...