Posts by Tim Zinnecker

So how was your weekend? Mine?  Pretty good.  Thanks for asking.But don't ask Link Christin, an adjunct law professor at William Mitchell.   He and 46 other passengers  were trapped in…

Anwar Sadat was the former President of Egypt who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 with Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin.One of the characters in this year's movie I…

Andrew Coats (pictured) announced a few days ago that he will leave the deanship at Oklahoma next summer.  He has been at the helm since 1996.  University president David Boren…

Perhaps the most famous home run in the history of baseball occurred on October 3, 1951.  The New York Giants won 37 of their final 44 games of the season…

Senator Cornyn's remarks, published in today's Houston Chronicle as an editorial, can be viewed here.  In part:"Judge Sotomayor's speeches suggest a surprisingly radical view of the law....  In her speeches,…

Tulane law professor Brooke Overby has unexpectedly passed away at the age of 49. Professor Overby graduated first in her law class at Iowa in 1987, where she served as…

Most readers have seen The Paper Chase at least once.  The film, released in 1973, starred Timothy Bottoms (as law student James Hart), Lindsey Wagner (the non-bionic daughter of a…

Perhaps this message is a bit late, but today is the deadline for submitting your FAR form and payment to the AALS if you wish to be included in the…

Some of us (like Aristotle, Charles Dickens, and Faith Hill) are adopted.  Some of us (like Paul Newman, John McCain, and Willie Mays) are adoptive parents.  And some of us…

Co-lounger Kim Krawiec alerted me to this story in today's edition of The New York Times:  No Casual Fans at World Series of Baseball Trivia.  (Hey Kim -- did you ...