Sunday, February 28, 2010

Rest in peace, Will Kohn

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Will, who was delightful, warm, funny, and extremely smart (see here ), passed away suddenly last week.  I'll really miss him.  I met hi...
Friday, February 26, 2010

The former University of Maryland law dean's current troubles

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I've been following the stories about Karen Rothenberg's current troubles over some payments made to her while she was Maryland'...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Newsflash: small, newly established law schools not in National Law Journal's top 25

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Thanks to my home Google page, I read TaxProf Blog regularly, so I clicked on the links (see here and here ) to the National Law Journal...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Will the crash in BigLaw hiring be a boon for lesser-"ranked" law schools?

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We won't know for a while, but if some law schools didn't place a lot of their grads in BigLaw firms before the crash, and the gradu...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

You know you've been in legal education a long time when . . .

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You remember being dean at Nebraska and helping to hire someone who is now the incoming dean at Nebraska.  Congrats to Susan Poser (see he...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

I get a kick out of this one (hat tip to PrawfsBlawg again)

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See the commentary and the comments to How to Write an Incendiary Blog Post ( here ).  The post refers to the original full article in the ...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I hate bullies--especially anonymous ones.

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Just got a nastygram today from RoastMail (meaning that the sender wasn't brave enough to sign his or her own name to the email).  The p...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Musings about an essay that I'm writing.

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Posted at Voir Dire ( here ), where I'm guest-blogging this month.  Comments gratefully accepted.  Thanks!
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One of the many reasons that my friend Bernie Burk ROCKS!

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See Bernie 's comment to Howard Wasserman 's post (http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2010/02/being-sued-v-being-held-liable.h...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

More kudos for David Dow.

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Check out this book review ( here ).

I'm sad about the NASA budget cuts.

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And I'm not the only one (see here ).  There is not enough space on any blog to list all of the gifts that NASA's research and missi...

Another subscriber to the Van Niel mortgage proposal.

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A while back, I described the Van Niel mortgage proposal ( here ).  In today's column by John L. Smith ( here ), he's endorsing tha...

Does higher education have some explaining to do?

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I was reading the op-ed page this morning, and I came across Glenn Cook 's A Few Questions for Carson City ( here ).   Among the questi...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

How to render a Contracts professor speechless in class.

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Give her samples of "UCC Coffee" and "UCC Tea" at the beginning of class.  OK, I wasn't rendered entirely speechless...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Schadenfreude.

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Schadenfreude is, by definition, rather satisfying.  See this Above the Law post ( here ), which also contains a nifty Marine Corps refere...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Elizabeth Warren on Wall Street's Race to the Bottom

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Read Prof. Warren's wonderful op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal here .  BRAVA!
Monday, February 08, 2010

Hat tip to The Faculty Lounge for highlighting The Autobiography of an Execution

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See here for the post.  I bought my first two copies (one for me and one for my dad) at Amazon ( here ).  You can hear David Dow on NPR...
Sunday, February 07, 2010

Cute blog--linked to the classic I Can Has Cheezburger

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See here .
Saturday, February 06, 2010

One of the many examples of how nice Jeff Yates is!

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Jeff , thanks for the post welcoming my guest-blogging stint ( here ) on your wonderful blog, Voir Dire .  I'm looking forward to hangin...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010

An 11 on the 10-point scale of stupidity.

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Normally, I give all Marines a great deal of respect and deference.  I love those Marines I know well:  that group includes my husband, my f...