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Conservative "Faculty Lounge" Blogger And President Obama Find Common Ground

Posted on September 21, 2009
The President foresees a World Series match-up between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees. Some of our readers may remember that the two teams last did battle in the Fall Classic in 1964. For a wonderful book...

All That Jazz -- In Tokyo?

Posted on September 21, 2009
There?s an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal about the popularity of jazz in Japan, particularly in Tokyo. I don?t know why this surprises me, as I?ve heard (pun intended) that Tokyo is one of the most cosmopolitan cities...

Weird Books

Posted on September 21, 2009
From the Weird Books Room of AbeBooks.com: The Pop-Up Book of Phobias How Green Were the Nazis? Poop-eaters: Dung Beetles in the Food Chain The Great Pantyhose Crafts Book Dead Clients Don't Pay: The Bodyguard's Manual How to Survive a...

Law Prof Named To Head New SEC Division

Posted on September 20, 2009
Last week the SEC announced the creation of its fifth division, the Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation. From the SEC's press release: The new division combines the Office of Economic Analysis, the Office of Risk Assessment, and other...

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UCI Egg Theft Case Developments

Posted on September 20, 2009
From The California Bar Journal: Egg donations Award: $4,230,000 Doctors at UCI Center for Reproductive Health were found to have engaged in the misappropriation and nonconsensual transfer of donor eggs, several of which resulted in live births (Beasley v...

Weekend Links

Posted on September 20, 2009
Before buying that Prada knockoff . . . Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational), who I do not think normally wears that Hugh Heffner jacket/robe around campus (HT: Freakonomics) The audio of Obama calling Kanye West a ?jackass.? Cutting Carbon Through Condoms...

More on ISI's Selection Criteria for Journals

Posted on September 19, 2009
Following up on my post yesterday about the 35 student-edited general interest law reviews in ISI's Social Sciences Citation Index -- and a few anomalies in there, I thought I'd post a little on what ISI says about its selection...

Physicians and the public health option

Posted on September 19, 2009
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an interesting study on physician views concerning the public health option. Here's a selection from the introduction portion of the article: In the past few months, a key point of contention in....

A Reenactment So Bad It's Good

Posted on September 19, 2009
Via Hanna Rosin:

Life After The Supreme Court

Posted on September 19, 2009
We wrote a little bit about Justice Souter when he left DC at the end of last term and his plans for doing some cool things, like writing a history of his hometown. It seems he's enjoying life back in...

Paperless to Papered Up

Posted on September 18, 2009
It seems the pendulum is swinging back from computers helping us go "paperless" to computers helping us make physical copies of the written word. As Amy Landers notes over at PrawfsBlawg, lots and lots of really good books are available...

Social Sciences Citation Index and Law Reviews

Posted on September 18, 2009
As I'm working up some thoughts on the use of the social sciences citation index as a companion to westlaw citation searches, I've been looking a little at the journals that the ssci already uses. Couple of things of some...

Faculty Lounges: Rooms with a View?

Posted on September 18, 2009
As my colleagues will attest, I am passionate about interior design, and the title of this wonderful Blog inspired today?s post about?faculty lounges. I think most law schools have them, but I doubt they?re often used for their intended purpose....

Difficulties with Death Penalty

Posted on September 18, 2009
I don't know if people outside of Ohio have heard about the situation this week in the case of Romell Broom who was to be executed earlier this week for a murder committed some 25 years ago. The governor was...

Robins Chair Open at University of Richmond

Posted on September 18, 2009
The University of Richmond has begun a search for the E. Claiborne Robins Chair in their law school. The field is open. From the announcement: The University of Richmond School of Law is seeking to fill the E. Claiborne Robins...

The Birther Defense for Military Deployment

Posted on September 18, 2009
Birthers--conspiracy theorists who believe that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore constitutionally ineligible to be President--have lost their latest lawsuit. (Full text here.) Connie Rhodes, a doctor in the US Army, recently lost a case...

Yesterday in 1930

Posted on September 17, 2009
From the excellent blog, News from 1930, which provides a daily news summary based on the author?s reading of the Wall Street Journal from the corresponding day in 1930. Yesterday?s entry had some gems: Tuesday, September 16, 1930: Dow 236.62...

Taking the Right Seriously

Posted on September 17, 2009
This week's Chroncile Review has an essay by Mark Lilla, "Taking the Right Seriously," that you may be interested in. I think Lilla under-serves the conservative movement (and those of us who take conservative ideas seriously as scholars) with statements...

Should we teach meltdowns?

Posted on September 17, 2009
I regularly read the Legal Profession Blog. At times it's kind of like the car accident I can't help but look at as I drive by. Some of the recent situations highlighted there include a lawyer sanctioned for filing frivolous...

Civility

Posted on September 17, 2009
Know anyone who could use a lesson or two in civility? How about a politician? Maybe a professional athlete? Perhaps an awards presenter? Your boss or co-worker? Possibly even a blogger, or a comment writer? If someone comes to mind,...

Wrapping It Up: The Struggle To Explain Why Difference Makes a Difference (Sotomayor And The Value of Diversity, The Final Installment)

Posted on September 17, 2009
In my prior post on this topic, What Corporate Insiders Say About Why Diversity Matters, I noted that (though our work is still preliminary) our research suggests that corporate insiders appear not to have arrived at a master narrative to...

The entrepreneur as non-risk taker ...

Posted on September 17, 2009
... or perhaps at least not as big of a risk-taker as conventional wisdom has led us to believe. On the 4HWW blog Tim Ferris reviews "Leap" by Rick Smith of World 50, a senior executive networking company. In the...

Does The Number 1700 Cause Sperm (And Embryos) to Go Where It Shouldn?t?

Posted on September 16, 2009
And how is Nancy Hersch always there to see it happen? It?s an address -- 1700 California Street, San Francisco. And it?s the home of both Laurel Fertility Clinic and Fertility Associates. Fertility Associates made the news in 2004 when...

Thomas Cobb

Posted on September 16, 2009
Last month I attended a fabulous seminar at the Thomas Cobb house in Athens, Georgia. The reading for the seminar was Cobb's An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery, which he published in 1858. The first half of the...

My Cousin Vinny Strikes Again

Posted on September 16, 2009
After Justice Scalia's recent remarks indicating that "My Cousin Vinny" is his favorite movie, the film appears again in a Seventh Circuit opinion [pdf] relating to an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. Defendant's counsel was held in contempt and jailed...

Why September drives your dean crazy

Posted on September 16, 2009
Last month I explained the melt (link), how it affects the demographics of the incoming class, and why it drives your dean crazy. But the dynamic of the melt that profs are least familiar with is likely to be the...

Mid-week Links

Posted on September 16, 2009
Georgetown law prof Chai Feldblum nominated as a Commissioner to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Katherine Franke has the story: This is huge not only because Feldblum would be the first out lesbian or gay person on the EEOC (which,...

Update on Peer Reviewed Law Reviews

Posted on September 15, 2009
I was recently contacted by John Zimmer, the former peer review editor for the South Carolina Law Review. On the Voir Dire Blog we had previously reported on the law school's pilot peer review program. He reports that the "experiment"...

Lawyer Disciplined for Blog Comments About a Judge

Posted on September 15, 2009
The New York Times ran an article a few days ago on the pitfalls into which lawyers can fall through blogging and social networking sites. The portion that interested me most concerned Sean Conway, a Florida criminal defense attorney who...

Turkey Hits Media Conglomerate with $2.5 Billion Fine

Posted on September 15, 2009
Yikes. The government says that's what the Dogan Media Group owes in back taxes, but observers both inside and outside of Turkey aren't convinced. PM Erdogan has been urging citizens to boycott Dogan's holdings (which include CNN-Turk, and the top...

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