Thursday, April 17, 2008

Bravo to Bill Henderson & Andy Morriss (as always)

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For their op-ed in the National Law Journal ( here ) about other choices that students can make, in light of the rankings.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A post on the lighter side

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Over at PrawfsBlog , there's a discussion of the most screwed victims in caselaw history, along with the list of finalists .  Not only d...

Bob Morse on comments about the rankings

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See here .
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Are bankruptcy judges unconstitutional?

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Another one of my colleagues here at UNLV, Tuan Samahon, has made some interesting arguments that they are--see here . (If you're getti...

A new take on article selection for law reviews

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One of my colleagues at UNLV, Rachel Anderson, has posted an intriguing article on SSRN about market failure in the selection of articles fo...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Musings on the ideal law faculty

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That's the topic of my second post on the mobblog, over at Madisonian.net ( here ).
Monday, April 07, 2008

Mobblog on legal education over at Madisonian.net

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Thanks to Mike Madison & Deven Desai , there's a fun mobblog going on at Madisonian.net : see here for Erwin Chemerinsky's fi...
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Wondering about the fate of the billable hour?

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I'm going to be at DePaul's one-day conference on Lawyers, Law Firms, and the Legal Profession: An Ethical View of the Business of L...

You've gotta love this--the perfect decanal letter(s) responding to USNWR rankings

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Thanks to the WSJ.com Law Blog , you can now read University of Tennessee law prof Gregory Stein's parodies of decanal letters respondin...
Saturday, April 05, 2008

A must-read blog post by Jeff Lipshaw

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If you ever wonder what lawyers and other service providers in the corporate world are thinking when they give grey-area advice that might p...
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Yet more suggestions about the rankings

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See Daniel Solove's very sensible observations ( here ).  
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

More suggestions about changing the rankings

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See Brian Leiter's open letter to Bob Morse of USNWR ( here ). Although I don't agree with all of Brian's suggestions, I cert...
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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...