Saturday, April 30, 2011

Seriously?

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I'm always disappointed when law students go ballistic over a downward move in the USNWR rankings (see, e.g., here , discussing Emory...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

More useful info on our propensity for cognitive errors.

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In today's New York Times ( here ).
Saturday, April 16, 2011

OK, the video is fake--but it's still funny.

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See here .
Friday, April 15, 2011

Welcome back to Stanford, Bob Gordon!

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Brian Leiter breaks the news here .  Bob was one of my professors, and it's nice to hear that he's coming home.

I sure wish I could go to this conference.

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See here and here .  Hat tip to TaxProf Blog .

What bothers me about law students (and lawyers) who post anonymously on blogs.

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When I take breaks from my work, I often check out blogs.  There's a relatively new blog that covers law in Las Vegas.  It frequently ha...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Wonderful article on social networking and legal ethics--from a soon-to-be-graduate of Boyd Law.

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You can read Derrick Harris's article here .
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

In the "good news" category....

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Jeff & I heard that our Law School Survival Manual will be available on Kindle soon ( here ).
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It's all about the incentives.

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See this morning's New York Times story in the Dealbook section ( here ).  The easy part is realizing that incentives will almost alway...

Glenn Reynolds is absolutely right about lowering the drinking age.

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See his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal ( here ). 

Of all the places to display one of the retired space shuttles . . . .

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Houston would seem to be the no-brainer, obvious choice, right?  After all, the Johnson Space Center is where all of the action in the spac...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Seriously???

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I fear for our profession when we allow behavior like this ( here ) to occur and we don't call "shenanigans" when we see it. ...
Friday, April 08, 2011

An open letter to Nevada's governor and legislature and to the Board of Regents.

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I was hoping to be able to speak at today's special meeting of the Board of Regents, during the public comment session, but I had to lea...
Thursday, April 07, 2011

'Nuff said.

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See Nicholas Kristof's column in today's New York Times ( here ), explaining why Congress will still get paid if the federal gover...

ABA Journal's "Peeps(tm) in Law diorama" contest.

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See here .  Go to the lower right-hand side to scroll through the entries.  Hat tip to Lowering the Bar for pointing the contest out ( here ...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Great post by Katie Porter at Credit Slips.

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See here .

This just in: Skilling loses his appeal.

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See here .

What do you get when you cross...

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Twombly and Iqbal ? Wait for it.... Twiqbal.  I'm hoping that my combination word catches on.  If not, at least I can send you to t...

Lawyer humor.

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Newest guilty pleasure ( here ).  Hat tip to Boyd School of Law student Jason Lather.

Wish I could be there!

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Check out Paul Paton's conference at McGeorge this coming Friday:  Ethics 20/20 – Globalization, Technology and Transforming the Pract...