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Mid-week Links

By Kim Krawiec

James Boyle at Techdirt on the AP?s recently released plan to develop a new metadata/Digital Rights Management format for news stories.

Robert Shiller on risk management failure as a cause of the current financial crisis in an interview with Charlie Rose, via FinReg21.  (My post on risk management from Monday is here, for those who missed it).

Two posts (here and here) from Historiann on American cuisine before Julia Child (will that movie never open?!  I feel I?ve been waiting for six months). 

Al Roth on the recession, Massachusetts courts, and judicial clerks:

One consequence of the poor economy is that Massachusetts courts have reneged on offers of judicial clerkships made to new law graduates. There is a proposal to fill these positions instead, for free, with other new law graduates who have been put on half pay and had their start dates delayed by Massachusetts law firms.

Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker on Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism, in which he discusses the work of a variety of legal and non-legal academics, including Lounge reader Steven Lubet?s 1999 Michigan Law Review article Reconstructing Atticus Finch.

Paul Caron on the 100 Best Blogs For Law Students (of which TaxProf Blog is one).

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on August 05, 2009 (boomark / email).