Posts by jacquelinelipton

(Cross-posted from Madisonian.net) With thanks to one of my Canadian students for forwarding this to me, it appears that the the Supreme Court of Canada will soon be deciding a…

With gratitude to an Australian colleague for passing this along, here's some academic humor to brighten the grading season ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What Academic Jargon Really Means http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/jokes/jokes_academic.htm   'IT HAS…

For those looking for a small sci-fi fix while eagerly awaiting the release of Tron:  Legacy (starring "Oscar Winner - TM - Jeff Bridges"), might I recommend the audio-book version…

  For anyone who shares my obsession with the regulation of Internet domain names and the balance between the (quasi)-property rights in domain names against other interests such as privacy…

In my continuing obsession to understand everyone else's continuing obsession with Harry Potter, I came across this week's column by Michael Heaton in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.  Heaton muses about…

In the last 24 hours, two colleagues have brought to my attention cases of academic plagiarism at the professorial level, and another brought to my attention an article from The…

I have just learned that my alma mater, the University of Melbourne School of Law, has just appointed its first female dean:  Professor Carolyn Evans who is a law and…

Like many other law schools and other institutions, our school has in recent years made many of its public lectures and symposia available via webcast.  This can be very useful…

As I near the end of my fall semester university mentoring fellowship, I had an interesting conversation with one of the course leaders earlier this week.  I was toying with…

So many of us have now returned home from the AALS Recruitment Conference hopefully unscathed for the most part.  I thought I'd share a few of my general observations on…