Month: December 2021

Yesterday’s column for The Hill was about the general problem of incentives in college football coaching contracts. I have a follow-up today in the Academe Blog about one coach’s very ...

My new column for The Hill is about the conflicts of interest created by incentive clauses -- above and beyond their stratospheric salaries -- in the contracts of college football…

This just in: The University of Hamburg and the Legal Priorities Project are co-organizing the 2022 Multidisciplinary Forum on Longtermism and the Law on 9-11 June 2022. The guiding theme…

This just in: St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy: Spring 2022 Symposium  The contemporary world has become an arena for emerging new types of international conflict. In recent…

The American Law Institute has announced (here) the election of 59 new members, including these professors: Alan K. Chen, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law Jorge L. Contreras, University…

I have a new piece on Social Science Space explaining how the NYU law school administration and faculty should respond to the announced Israel boycott by the Review of Law…

Just posted on The Spectator World, David Garrow has a review of Claude Clegg's The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama. Here is a sample: What…

Bessie Smith's 1929 recording is still the definitive rendition of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," which was written by Jimmie Cox six years earlier. It is interesting ...

Externship Director Responsible for overall design and operation of the externship program, including the program’s fit in the overall educational program for JD students, ensuring high-quality placements and compliance with…

As explained by me in a new essay on The Hill.  Here is the gist (but there is lots more exposition, and the full piece is not paywalled.)  How American…