Monday, March 31, 2008

Cognitive dissonance and the USNWR rankings

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As Brian Leiter correctly points out ( here ), the schools listed on Paul Caron's post ( here ) are trying to eat their cake and have it...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Putting my money where my mouth is....

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In keeping with my comments in the recent ABA Journal article on the rankings ( here ), talking about improving USNWR's rankings to ma...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Before the USNWR rankings come out....

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Here's the ABA Journal's spin on all of this (click here ).
Monday, March 17, 2008

Some thoughts on Jeff Skilling's appeal and his allegations about the suppression of exculpatory evidence

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The more I see groups of people making obviously bad decisions with clearly foreseeable repercussions, the more I realize that law has very ...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Some fun reads

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Paul Secunda's Tales of a Law Professor Lateral Nothing ( here ) and J. Robert Brown, Jr.'s Law Blogging, Law Scholarship, and Law ...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Bravo to Brian Leiter for his suggestion about blogging on the upcoming USNWR rankings!

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Brian has posted a very sensible suggestion ( here ) about blogging about the upcoming USNWR rankings, which come out in a couple of weeks....
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

More on the Deadwood Report

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Bob Morse of USNWR has blogged about it (see here ), and he suggests that deans and faculty members may not be so sanguine about having the...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Bravo to the Green Bag!

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Thanks to Inside Higher Education , Brian Leiter , my dad, and the Green Bag itself , there's a new ranking system in town: Green Bag...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

More on Judge Sneed's passing....

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Over at one of my favorite blogs, TaxProf Blog ( here ).
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Why the anonymous posts?

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I've been wondering why people post comments to blogs on an anonymous basis. Are they afraid of being harassed? Are they shy? Are the...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Judge Joseph T. Sneed III

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Judge Joseph T. Sneed III died last week. I had the pleasure of clerking for him during the 1985-86 term, and here are just some of my reco...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

I did it--I switched to a MacBook Pro!

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Having gotten a full refund from Dell (thank you, Michael McKinney), I have switched laptop formats from Dell to a MacBook Pro, although I...
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Death of the billable hour, part n+1

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In this morning's NYT, Lisa Belkin's article, Who's Cuddly Now? Law Firms , caught my eye. As I've predicted (see here for ...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Bye, bye, lessons that we can learn from Enron

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What with the Stoneridge case and the denial of certiorari in the Enron shareholder lawsuit, it's pretty clear that Enron--along with ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

It's all about the incentives....

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Jared Sandberg's WSJ column today, Why Learn and Grow on the Job? It's Easier to Feign Infallibility, reminds me how important the ...

For all of my friends who know my political leanings, guess what? John Yoo is right about the lawsuit against him.

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See his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, here . For those of you who don't subscribe to the WSJ, here's an excerpt: In a case ab...
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Legal Ethics Nightmare Comes True--Sort Of

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I'm assuming that other folks saw this article in the Saturday New York Times : Lawyer Reveals Secret, Toppling Death Sentence . It...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

The headline meme....

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Jim Chen has tagged me, over at Jurisdynamics , to do my own version of the following four headlines: Headline I most fear seeing in 2008: ...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Nice one, Cameron!

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For those of you who missed Cameron Stracher's op-ed on the rankings, see here . For those of you who don't subscribe to the WSJ, ...
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A couple of op-eds that resonated....

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As we start out in 2008 (and here's wishing everyone a good 2008), I wanted to note a couple of op-eds that resonated with me:  one from...
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