Monday, March 23, 2009

It's a textbook! It's a weapon!

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Richard Pachter of the Miami Herald has this to say ( here ) about our second edition of the Enron book . Although he missed a letter of ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A horrifying website--and an update

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My dad and my friend Seymour called my attention to this site, jewwatch .com, I was appalled. There's a petition to remove the site fro...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

DePaul's upcoming Biz & Comm L J Symposium

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Seventh Annual DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal Symposium Into the Sunset: Bankruptcy as Scriptwriter of the Dénouement of Finan...
Sunday, March 08, 2009

And another great idea for the economy

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In response to this post ( here ), one of our best friends suggested the following: Here's my plan: (1) stimulate the economy by increas...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

BRAVO, Race to the Bottom Blog!

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The Race to the Bottom ( http://www.theracetothebottom.org/home/covering-churchill-v-university-of-colorado.html ) is going to cover the tri...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

A hat tip to John D. Geanakoplos and Susan P. Koniak

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This morning's New York Times op-ed by John Geanakoplos and Susan Koniak ( here ), Matter of Principal , is right on point: without re...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

The Van Niel mortgage proposal

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So I was talking with Jeff Van Niel this morning, and he came up with a simple and effective mortgage proposal for the rest of us--those of...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Can ANYONE in Las Vegas reach Rowlands News Service?

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I am one of those people who loves reading newspapers--in print, not just online. And for the past month, I have been trying to reach Rowlan...
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Friday, February 27, 2009

Dan Filler's very cogent observations on recent big firm layoffs

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See here for his post, over at The Faculty Lounge .
Monday, February 23, 2009

My letter to the Nevada Legislature

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Each of us can weigh in on Nevada's budget. Here's a text version of what I've sent. To my colleagues in the Nevada Legislature:...
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Congrats to Rice U students Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel!

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Rice University students Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel won the right to represent mtvU at last night's Academy Awards. BRAVO, Faheem and...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Let's play "connect the dots"

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I read these three pieces in today's local paper: Gibbons'[s] budget would kill higher education ( here ), Drop, drop, drop . . . ....
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Our second edition of the Enron book (Enron and Other Corporate Scandals: The Corporate Scandal Reader, 2d) is on Amazon now.

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Jeff did the cover art (see here ), and the link is here .
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I am, apparently, still a "bargain."

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See here .
Friday, February 20, 2009

Want to see my personal trainer, Jeff Monroe, and his wife, Priscila Monroe, on my gym's website?

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Click here and then click on "guests." For Jeff's ad, see here .
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Why I think that the housing portion of the bailout misses the boat

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My piece today in JURIST ( here ). Would love your thoughts. Better yet, weigh in at www.recovery.gov . Thanks!
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

PLEASE SEND THESE TWO RICE U STUDENTS TO THE OSCARS!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I just watched this video ( here ), where two Rice University students, Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel, are finalists to be correspondents for...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Academics whose actions disappoint me more than I can say.

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See here for the list of academics who have signed on to a petition of a boycott of Israel. What's going on in the Middle East is comp...

Today's stories on mortgages

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On forcing banks to prove they hold the mortgage: see here . On courts that process thousands of foreclosures a day: see here . Some of th...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

My piece today on JURIST

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See here . A special thanks to Bernard Hibbitts for publishing it!