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Monday, December 10, 2007

Thanks for the plug, Paul!

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A hat tip to Paul Caron for mentioning this book on MoneyLaw and TaxProf Blog: Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on Benchmarking...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Ann Bartow: tag, you're it!

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Jim Chen , the stalwart dean of the U of Louisville School of Law, has started a bad movie meme over at Jurisdynamics , and he's tagged...
Monday, November 19, 2007

A nice way to put things in perspective this week.

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Hat tip to our friend Scott Unger for sending it along--thanks, Scott!
Saturday, November 10, 2007

Latest lawyer joke--except that it's not one.

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In yesterday's Wall Street Journal : "Except in One Career, Our Brains Seem Built for Optimism." The only career where optimis...
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Anthony Ciolli gets dismissed from lawsuit

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To see how disgusting some of the comments posted on AutoAdmit were, see here . The people who posted such things demonstrated their immatur...
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Happy birthday, Marines!

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I know some honorable people, although there are few enough truly honorable people that I can count the ones I know on two hands. But I know...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

And now, for something completely different [in the law school publications wars]

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I enjoyed Brian Leiter's comments about SUNY-Buffalo's latest publication ( here ). Having recycled my share of "law porn"...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

A history lesson: "law porn," Trotsky, and ... Rapoport?

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Hmmm .... Let's see: 1. We know that, during the USNWR rankings season, law schools send out ludicrous amounts of PR material with an e...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Today, we saw a miracle....

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Yesterday and today, Jeff & I were the guests of Johnson Space Center for the launch of STS -120 , better known as Discovery, which wi...
Friday, October 19, 2007

Guilty pleasures, ballroom dancing, and academic support

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How can I not love this post? See here .

A shout-out to Paul Caron

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Two of my guilty pleasures, Paul, are (1) reading blogs (including Tax Prof) and (2) my own obsessive hobby (see here ). For other folks...

What I would have posted on Brian Leiter's blog....

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Brian thought that my comment on his post (here's his post ) was off-topic. It's Brian's blog, so it's totally his call on w...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Breathing a sigh of relief....

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See here . I owe a debt of gratitude first, to my beloved, who saw me through the exam and gave me more support than anyone ever has a righ...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Does anyone happen to have a contact telephone number for Dell Computer's legal department?

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Dell managed to ship my new laptop somewhere into the ether, and I've been trying to get a replacement computer shipped to me in an expe...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

A new market--USNWR reputation votes

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Doug Berman posts an intriguing hypothetical over at the Law School Innovation Blog ( here ). He asks whether he should sell his USNWR vot...
Monday, October 08, 2007

JURIST -- Forum column today

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Here's a link to the JURIST Forum piece I wrote over the weekend ( here ).
Thursday, October 04, 2007

The older I get, the more I find myself agreeing with Thomas Sowell

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I just read Thomas Sowell's column about the apology that Duke's president gave to the Duke lacrosse team ( here ). That column link...
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50 years after Sputnik, and our space program's link to Rice University

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On September 12, 1962, President Kennedy announced that the USA would land on the moon within a few short years. He made his announcement in...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

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

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Here's my contribution to the TaxProf series ( here ).
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Advice to Erwin Chemerinsky over on Tax Prof site

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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 ...
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