Monday, June 30, 2008

Volokh Conspiracy's Post on Reducing the Pain of Taking the Bar Exam

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One of our own law students directed me to Ilya Somin's post ( here ) on the Volokh Conspiracy blog , never a boring blog. Prof. Som...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Thomas Sowell on college rankings

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Loved Thomas Sowell 's take on the rankings, including his reasons for disparaging USNWR's rankings ( here ).  In his column, Dr. S...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

Dave Van Zandt does it again--Northwestern Law to offer the option of an accelerated two-year law degree

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Dave Van Zandt , one of the true visionary law deans, has announced that Northwestern Law will  offer an option for a two-year law degree (s...

More about the local lawyer who did the right thing

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When I blogged about Louis Schneider ( here ), I didn't know he was a graduate of the William S. Boyd School of Law . Now our law scho...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

I can't remember which comedian has a routine about this....

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It may be Patton Oswalt .  But a real-life version of someone's bit happened to me over the last few days.  I've been getting text ...

Update on capital case involving alleged judge/prosecutor affair

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Yesterday's scheduled execution was stayed (see here , with some great commentary by my friend Larry Fox ), but the fight to do the rig...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Outrageous! In what world is it ok for a judge and a prosecutor to sleep together while working on the same case?

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Charles Hood is scheduled to be executed tonight at 6pm Texas time. According to the New York Times ( here ) and ABC-TV ( here ), Hood has ...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Local lawyer does the right thing

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After a lawyer misappropriated more than $200K from her firm's client trust account (an act for which she was later suspended from the ...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Brian Leiter is becoming one of my go-to bloggers for problems w/the USNWR rankings

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As I sit in the Phoenix airport, grateful for the free wireless, I've been browsing my favorite blogs, and I always read Brian's pos...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

VINDICATED! Dell's marketing, warranties problems show up in court

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In today's New York Times about Dell's failure to follow through on its "next-day" warranties:  see here .  NY Attorney G...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

And a great post from the Legal Profession Blog about depressed lawyers

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For those of us who struggle with depression, the Legal Profession Blog has a great post today ( here ) about depression, lawyers, and job ...
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Urban myth or chilling commentary on law firm life?

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This post ( here ) from Above the Law is making the rounds today. A hat-tip to my buddy Kathleen Lyon for telling me about it.
Sunday, May 04, 2008

A lovely post about dean qualifications

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A hat-tip to Alan Childress over at Legal Profession Blog for pointing out a well-done post ( here ) by Michael Froomkin .
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

American Bankruptcy Institute/University of Illinois College of Law's Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium on Debt

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I'm sitting in the session that Elizabeth Warren & Bruce Markell are doing in the Debt symposium , marveling at how well this whol...
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 ).