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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.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

My contribution to TaxProf Blog's series on advice to Erwin Chemerinsky

Here's my contribution to the TaxProf series ( here ).

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Advice to Erwin Chemerinsky over on Tax Prof site

Once again, the Tax Prof Blog is doing something that's fun to read AND important even to non-tax types: advice to Erwin Chemerinsky ...

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Top ten reasons that faculty hiring is just like dating

The AALS book of candidates feels a bit like like eHarmony or Match.com. Timing is everything: a bad fit at a particular time could be a wo...

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Another blog poses a possible new rankings system

Over at the Voir Dire blog, this proposal : have schools go mano-a-mano in a variety of moot court competitions, and rank the schools accord...

Gil Grantmore--you rock!!!!!

Gil Grantmore embedded the Fall Out Boy video for me, despite being a disembodied entity. Thanks, Gil!!!

Monday, September 24, 2007

A shout-out to Jim Chen

Thanks go to Jim Chen , who, when he isn't deaning, is walking a Luddite like me through the basics of blogging. I've now gone back ...

Bravo to Fall Out Boy for this important video

I've mentioned before what a fan I am of the band Fall Out Boy. Recently, the band recorded a video that I found incredibly powerful. Se...

I still don't understand--why is there a rush to judgment against Anthony Ciolli?

In reading other postings about Amir Efrati's story today in the WSJ , I came across Brian Leiter's postings about Anthony Ciolli...

The tick, tick, tick of tuition on legal education

Today's WSJ Law Blog post by Amir Efrati , The Dark Side of the Legal Job Market, has already generated some national notice, even th...

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Thanks, Mike, for the shout-out

For the post ( here ) and the comment. I'm blushing, but it's lovely to read the compliments. You and " the wife " on yo...

Another great post by Bill Henderson (and thanks to Paul Caron) for calling my attention to it

Bill's post about the opportunities that Erwin Chemerinsky has at UC -Irvine is here , and Paul Caron's link to it at MoneyLaw is...

Monday, September 17, 2007

Shout-outs to Erin O'Connor and Jim Chen

Brava to Erin O'Connor for her post on the oversensitivity of certain UC faculty members to the spectre of a dinner talk by Larry Summe...

UC-Irvine removes head from posterior, rehires Chemerinsky

According to today's news, UC-Irvine has recanted and rehired Erwin Chemerinsky . That's good news, at least for now. The real tric...

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Thanks to the comment on the last post, I'm now enabling "moderate comments"

Junk bloggers (junk commenters?) annoy the heck out of me, so unless someone can show me how to delete junk comments, such as the one that j...

University of California System Meltdown

As if UC-Irvine's firing of Erwin Chemerinsky weren't bad enough, now the UC Regents have disinvited Larry Summers from a dinner spe...

Friday, September 14, 2007

Five reasons I miss being a dean, and ten reasons I don't

I was listening to one of my colleagues, Tuan Samahon , present a draft of his latest paper today, and I realized how much I enjoyed the wh...

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Guess who's on this year's appointments committee at Boyd?

And I wanted to let everyone take a gander at our ad. Please consider applying. I really am enjoying my life here at Boyd, and Las Vegas i...

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

I couldn't make this up if I tried.

I couldn't resist: See my post on Erwin Chemerinsky's hiring, then firing, by UC-Irvine on MoneyLaw, here .

Monday, September 10, 2007

A functional law faculty actually can spell out its workload policy!

A/k/a "Why I'm having so much fun here at the Boyd School of Law, part n ." I'm catching up on some emails circulated by o...

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Why Harvard won't really have a core curriculum

Peter Berkowitz's op-ed in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Our Compassless Colleges, describes Harvard's new core curriculum a...

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