Thursday, November 19, 2015

So nice to see a friend's column in Forbes!

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See here .  Congrats, Chenglin !
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Happy 240th birthday, Marines!

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See here .
Monday, October 19, 2015

What a $20 self-parking charge cost the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel.

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I used to like the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel .  It was a great place for business breakfasts and lunches, and it was where the Law School ...

A cool article about luck.

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Forwarded to me by the wonderful Tom Piechota , who read it in Southwest Airlines's monthly magazine ( here ).
Sunday, October 11, 2015

Brilliant idea for those who, like me, hate where name tags fall.

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From the wonderful Karen Gross ( here ).
Thursday, October 08, 2015

The 17-month wait (!) is over: our Virtuous Billing essay is finally out.

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Randy Gordon , my co-author, and I turned in this essay , Virtuous Billing, in July 20 14 .  The Nevada Law Journal has now published it as...
Tuesday, October 06, 2015

The Onion for the military

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Sent to me by one of my fave law students ( here ).
Monday, October 05, 2015

R.I.P., Malcolm Gillis

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So sad to hear about President Gillis's passing .  He served Rice exceedingly well.
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Great way to start the day.

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Sent to me by my wonderful colleague Linda Edwards ( here ).  Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The power of a great teacher.

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This lovely WSJ essay about a great teacher ( here ) triggered a couple of thoughts: (1) I still believe that it's possible (and more...
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Monday, September 07, 2015

Two great ways to start the week:

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Here and here .
Monday, August 31, 2015

A good reason to be proud of the University of Houston Law Center (10th anniversary of doing something very good).

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See here .
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Hooray for Judge Phyllis Frye!

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Front page of the New York Times ( here )!  I've known Judge Frye for around 15 years, and she and her wife Trish are lovely, warm, wic...

Tale of a customer service fail (GrubHub)

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Last night, we decided to order in and catch up on some shows, so I did what I often do when I'm out of town--order from GrubHub.  I ord...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Banality of hate (repost, with a comment).

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Professor LeRoy makes an important point about failing to realize the precursors to evil ( here ).  By staying silent when evil occurs , we ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Proudest moment of my time at UHLC.

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I had so many good times at UHLC, including (surprisingly enough) the post-Tropical Storm Allison time, when everyone at the law school -- i...

So proud of UNLV's Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering!

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If you ever want to see the value of research in action, watch this clip .  Thanks to Professors Brendan O'Toole and Mohamed Trabia and ...
Friday, August 07, 2015

I'm not a ConLaw person, but ...

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I'm really not a ConLaw person--you can tell that from my law school transcript--but I think that there is a difference between saying s...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

The world lost a mensch.

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My old friend, Seymour Serebnick, just passed away.  I loved his boundless curiosity and his deep generosity of spirit.  He knew of my lo...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Just a couple of thoughts on ASARCO.

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I think that the dissent was closer to being right than the majority opinion was ( of course I think so:  I was one of four folks on this ...