Posts by Tim Zinnecker

Carol applied to Yale.So did Kenny.Martina, too.And Ray.Last week,  Yale offered each of them a spot in the next freshman class.And why is this newsworthy?Carol, Kenny, Martina and Ray are…

In recent days, Time magazine named FRB chairman Ben Bernanke as its "person of the year."Loren Steffy, a business columnist for The Houston Chronicle, offers a different choice:  Harvard law…

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I'm working my way through nearly 75 Secured Transactions exams this week (and next week, if necessary).  Long ago I ceased to be shocked by the misspelling of my last…

At a recent squash match between Dartmouth and Harvard, some Dartmouth students apparently crossed the line between merely heckling the visitors and engaging in inappropriate verbal behavior.For at least 90…

Hey Dan, add Washington and Lee to your list of law schools looking for a dean.  Rod Smolla will be leaving the Lexington VA school and moving to Greenville SC…

Congrats to Fred Rooney, the director of CUNY Law’s Community Legal Resource Network.  The AALS has announced that Rooney is being awarded the Father Robert Drinan Award from its Section…

As a follow-up to Dan's pre-Thanksgiving post here, the dean search committee at Iowa has released the names of its five finalists.  They are:1) Gregory Mark (associate dean and professor…

While channel surfing in recent days, I stumbled across a concert on the local PBS station.  The concert, recorded live in New York, featured Straight No Chaser, an a capella …

I read John Grisham's book, The Associate, this week.  I enjoyed the story (notwithstanding my expectation of a different ending).In a brief part of the book, the main character (a…