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Blogging about all sorts of things--governance in higher education, in businesses, and in law firms; bankruptcy ethics; popular culture & the law; Enron & other corporate fiascos; professional responsibility generally; movies; ballroom dancing; and anything else that gets my attention.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

I, Grantmore, feel the rage

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Greetings, Nancy and fellow readers of Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot: Thanks to Nancy for inviting me to contribute to this page. I am espec...

Touching a nerve at The National Jurist?

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I just received an email from National Jurist: As you are already aware, in our latest January issue of The National Jurist, we covered the...
Monday, January 29, 2007

MoneyLaw, Class Bias in Higher Education, and PrivilegeLaw

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Jim Chen , over at MoneyLaw , pointed out Chadsworth Osborne Junior 3d's blog, PrivilegeLaw , the sworn enemy blog of MoneyLaw and Jeff...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Dance, dance

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Hey Nancy! I had no idea you were just two degrees from some bona fide rock stars . Here's a Fall Out Boy video to show your loyal rea...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Only two degrees to Fall Out Boy....

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Thanks to Alan Childress , of Legal Profession Blog fame (among other things) and his post about my Bacon number , I started thinking about...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Closure (?) on National Jurist article

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After mulling things over, I sent Rebecca Luczycki, Editor in Chief of Cypress Magazines' National Jurist and preLaw publications, an ...
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Monday, January 22, 2007

Closure on SSRN--two comments, and then two new questions

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Thanks, everyone, for weighing in on my questions about SSRN "top 10 downloads" lists . Two of the comments were so good that I wa...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

A little Ellen Degeneres to start your week out right

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I've been an Ellen Degeneres fan for a long time, and I record her show on M-F. Thanks to two other friends of mine, who happen to shar...

Mary L. Dudziak and the Legal History Blog

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Mary L. Dudziak just posted a comment in response to my post on figuring out SSRN downloads , and I wanted to upgrade her comment to a new p...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Figuring out SSRN downloads--and some questions for everyone

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There's been a lot of recent blogging going on regarding the rankings (see, e.g., MoneyLaw's recent posts here (Jeff Harrison), he...
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My response to Tony D'Amato's post about governance

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Tony, thanks for asking me to clarify my earlier post . I don't think that university presidents as a group are wiser or better than are...
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Mazel tov, Alan!

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Over at the Legal Professions blog, Jeff Lipshaw has announced that Alan Childress has just been named the Meyer Professor of Civil Procedur...

Why should faculty defer to university presidents? (A post from Tony D'Amato)

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Hi, all: Tony tried to comment on my post on the NYT story about university presidents , but the intricacies of Blogger are such that neith...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

And while I'm on the subject of funny videos....

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This one--of Jon Stewart interviewing Steve Carell on The Daily Show --demonstrates modern comedic timing at its best.

If you teach business associations or antitrust....

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For those of you who fall asleep before The Daily Show and The Colbert Report air at night, here's a clip that I saw a couple of night...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

The fundamental misunderstanding about shared governance

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I don't know how many of you saw the New York Times piece on university governance : At Universities, Plum Post at Top Is Now Shaky . O...
Saturday, January 13, 2007

Blogger & BEPRESS

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I've just added a BEPRESS page , having learned about this website at the AALS Annual Meeting. I use the BEPRESS page to describe my sch...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Over at MoneyLaw, some new factors for rating law schools

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I just finished a post over at MoneyLaw on a new way of rating schools, focusing on the current black box that is between admissions statis...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

And now for something completely different (ballroom dancing) ...

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Some of you know that I took up ballroom and Latin dancing a few years ago, as a way of working out the stress of my then-job as dean. This ...
Friday, January 05, 2007

This year's AALS was different....

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I'm back from this year's AALS meeting in DC, and I don't know whether it was the panel discussions, the reunions with old frien...
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