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Bailout!

Posted on July 31, 2009
Bailout -- the new video from Merle Hazard From the chorus: We got a great big bailout, ten trillion bucks and more Unprecedented bailout, it costs more than a war We bailed out even big banks, like Citi and WaMu...

Dear New Law Professor ...

Posted on July 31, 2009
In just a few weeks, the fall semester will start. Many of us will welcome one or more colleagues who are beginning what we all hope will be illustrious academic careers. The Cardozo Law Review De Novo has recently published...

Probate in the Old South: Who?

Posted on July 31, 2009
Now that I've introduced the paper that Stephen Davis and I have out on probate in the old South and written about the county where our study is centered, I'd like to talk a little bit about what we found...

Taboo Trades and Forbidden Markets

Posted on July 30, 2009
On Monday, I blogged about the announcement by the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority that it will reconsider its restrictive caps on payments to egg and sperm donors, due to donor shortages and the resulting reproductive tourism. The proposed...

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The Empirical Judiciary: Levi on Ponser on Judges

Posted on July 30, 2009
Following up my post on the interview of Richard Posner by the Duke Law School class co-taught by David Levi and Mitu Gulati, I thought I'd talk a little about Dean Levi's review of How Judges Think, which has also...

You were counting on everything in your life being deferred for a year.

Posted on July 30, 2009
Number One of the Top 10 Reasons You Failed The Bar Exam. Other reasons include: - -Inspired by Sarah Palin, you lost a week thinking that the best way to achieve your goals is to quit, and - -Worried that...

Just Say "No"

Posted on July 30, 2009
As reported earlier this week, the senior senator from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchison (pictured), will vote "no" on Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court (the story also notes the same "no" vote on Sotomayor's nomination to the appellate bench)...

"We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population." Well, that's settled then.

Posted on July 30, 2009
From the be-careful-what-you-name-your-innovation files: The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (yes, that's EATR) is a conceptual (for now) robot designed in part for military use that can "find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment...

From Academia to the Race Track

Posted on July 29, 2009
The NYT has a story about Michelle Nihei, former professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, who is now a horse trainer at Saratoga Springs. She has 14 horses there, and has won an equal number of races in her new...

Mid-Week Links

Posted on July 29, 2009
USC?s Daria Roithmayr and Duke?s Guy-Uriel Charles on Why Race Still Matters at CNN. On Sotomayor: No one was surprised when the subject of race dominated the public conversation during Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. What was surprising was how unwilling...

OK Ben Stein, Tell Us What You REALLY Think!

Posted on July 29, 2009
"Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our...

The Henry Louis Gates 911 Call

Posted on July 29, 2009
In case you haven't already heard it, it's here. What's remarkable is the degree to which the caller - Lucia Whalen, a Harvard Magazine fundraiser - didn't seem at all sure there was a break-in occuring. She thought the men...

Powell Weighs in on Gates, Clinton, and the new Administration

Posted on July 29, 2009
I didn't actually see CNN's recent interview with Colin Powell that covered issues of racial profiling amongst others. However the online summary is worth a look. I wonder if he'll come back into public life?

Obama has a beer with Gates and Crowley ....

Posted on July 28, 2009
I couldn't resist one more post on Obama/Gates/Crowley. I just loved this cartoon from the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Editorial Cartoonist, Jeff Darcy. Image Source: Cleveland.com

North Carolina: First in Flight . . . and in Alienation of Affections

Posted on July 28, 2009
Yet another reason to be proud to be a Tar Heel! Image source: Wright House

New Blog Devoted To Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Posted on July 28, 2009
Mike Koehler (pictured), set to embark on an academic career as an associate professor in the business school at Butler University this fall, has started a blog devoted to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act -- "FCPA Professor." Here's the "mission...

Huge Cigar Counterfeiting Ring Exposed. I Wonder If They Were Grape Flavored?

Posted on July 28, 2009
Alabama authorities have busted a huge cigar counterfeiting ring involving hundreds of thousands of cigars. Apparently, many were masquerading as Swisher Sweets an "affordably priced" brand that comes in packs of five and boxes of 50. Swisher caught on to...

An Economist, A Historian, And A Billionaire Walk Onto A TV Set

Posted on July 28, 2009
Nouriel Roubini, Niall Ferguson, and Mort Zuckerman discuss whether the end of the recession is near on CNN. Embedded video from CNN Video (HT: Paul Kedrosky, who also gets credit for the title)

HUP Books on Scribd

Posted on July 27, 2009
While I'm still reeling from the news that Harvard University Press' display room is closed, I see that HUP has signed a deal with Scribd to distribute HUP books in electronic format. One thing that's interesting is the split of...

Skynet Comes to Hillsborough (the machines really are taking over)

Posted on July 27, 2009
Well, I was up Hillsborough recently to check out some of the historical sites up there. (I wrote a little bit about Thomas Ruffin's grave not too long ago.) On the way back, there was a crew working on the...

Kevin Flynn Lives!!

Posted on July 27, 2009
I'm probably the only Faculty Lounger nerdy enough to care about this, but here goes... The LONG awaited TRON sequel, Tron Legacy, is due to arrive in theaters in 2010/2011. There's some info and a link to a teaser involving...

Gates, Obama, Crowley - Inspiring Some New Poetry...

Posted on July 27, 2009
In what I *promise* (fingers crossed behind my back) will be my last post on the Gates/Obama/Crowley media triangle, I wanted to share a website that includes two poems about the Gates incident (Gatesgate?) - the second poem is in...

Driving Dangers: Texting Is Equal To Driving Double Drunk

Posted on July 27, 2009
Or, almost. A new study shows that a trucker's risk of collision rises 23 fold when the driver is texting. If the DWI Blog is to believed, this is roughly the risk associated with driving with a blood alcohol content...

U.K. To Reconsider Payments to Egg and Sperm Donors

Posted on July 27, 2009
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has indicated that it will reconsider its restrictive caps on payments to egg and sperm donors, due to donor shortages and the resulting reproductive tourism. Via the BBC: More and more British couples...

FAR and Away!

Posted on July 27, 2009
Given that the 8/5/09 deadline is less than two weeks away, I thought I'd repost my thoughts on the FAR form. Recent posts here and elsewhere have started to address the topic of faculty hiring and the upcoming AALS Faculty...

Vive Le Tour! Vive Le Dope!

Posted on July 27, 2009
The Tour de France ended yesterday, with Alberto Contador in yellow, and Lance Armstrong on the podium in third. Like Gordon, I love the Tour de France for many reasons, including that the French just aren?t that good at it...

Antebellum Greene County

Posted on July 27, 2009
In the series of posts that I'm doing on the paper Stephen Davis and I have up on ssrn about wills and trusts in the old South, I thought that I'd start by talking a little bit about the county...

I Second Christine?s Nomination . . .

Posted on July 26, 2009
Over at the Glom for the best footnote ever: Compare INVASION Of THE BODY SNATCHERS (Walter Wanger Productions 1956) (depicting pod people as merely pointing silently at humans that had not been replaced) with INVASION Of THE BODY SNATCHERS (Solofilm...

About that Beer?

Posted on July 26, 2009
When Officer Crowley, Professor Gates, and President Obama sit down to a beer at the White House (or perhaps it should be at a neutral place, like Fenway Park--next time the White Sox play the Red Sox?!), just what kind...

Gates, Crowley, and Obama: A Teachable Moment

Posted on July 26, 2009
I think I read somewhere in the New York Times this weekend that President Obama described the incident involving the arrest of his friend, Harvard Prof Henry Gates and its aftermath as a "teachable moment" - a phrase I only...

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