Friday, December 27, 2013

A timeless essay on writing by George Orwell.

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Here .  It's just marvelous.
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Bravo to each university on this list.

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Here .  And here's an opinion piece worth reading.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Long overdue but very happy news.

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Alan Turing has finally been given a posthumous pardon ( here ).  Too many wonderful people have been punished for being gay--just for BEING...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Bravo, Brandeis and Penn State Harrisburg!

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Both universities said no to the boycott ( here ). 
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Bravo, Michael Roth (President of Wesleyan U)!

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For his response to the American Studies boycott of Israeli universities ( here ).

Bravo, Robert Brown (President of BU)!

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For his response to the American Studies boycott ( here ). 
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Bravo, Jonathan Marks!

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His take on the ridiculous American Studies Association boycott of Israel ( here ).  Where is the American Studies Association's boycott...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Bravo, Larry Summers!

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For speaking up about the academic boycott of Israel ( here ).
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Something funny, on this eve before grading exams.

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From the NYT ( here ). 
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Boyd School of Law's upcoming Conference on Psychology and Lawyering is coming up early next year.

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Info here .  Should be excellent.
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

A feel-good donation opportunity for you from The Bloggess.

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See here .
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Really? An academic boycott of Israel? Why the leaders of the American Studies Association are misguided.

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Here's the news story.  Rather than either (1) trying to learn about the nuances of what's going on in the Middle East or (2) tryin...
Monday, December 02, 2013

New to practicing bankruptcy law? Where to begin, where to begin....

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So I received a copy of PLI's Financially Distressed Companies Answer Book 2013 , and it's been waiting for me since June.  For folk...

Today's Throw Grammar From the Train is about "utilize"--yay!

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See here .  I've been riding this particular hobbyhorse for a long time.  My guess is that people use "utilize" to sound ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Yes, I believe that our law students at Boyd are cooler than your law students.

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Proof here .  (These are students in my small section of Contracts.  They have Thom Main for Civ Pro.)
Monday, November 11, 2013

Some thoughts on anti-Semitism.

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This New York Times article on anti-Semitism brought back some painful memories.  Growing up in the Bible Belt meant that I met more peopl...
Friday, November 08, 2013

Yep, I'm bragging about Boyd.

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See here --and this is my favorite quote:  Three schools accredited in the past two decades -- the  University of St. Thomas, Nevada–Las ...
Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Congratulations to Brian Shapiro's FEES program!

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The 4th graders in this video did a great job of demonstrating the type of financial knowledge that Brian Shapiro's course teaches.  W...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

I agree with a lot of the points in this post about law reviews.

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Here .  Law reviews are good for giving students more experience with good and bad writing (and good and bad analysis).  But law students ar...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Another great post from LawProfBlog.

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Here .  ROFL.