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By Kim Krawiec

Georgetown law prof Chai Feldblum nominated as a Commissioner to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  Katherine Franke has the story:

This is huge not only because Feldblum would be the first out lesbian or gay person on the EEOC (which, as Nan Hunter points out will gain particular significance when/if ENDA is enacted), but more generally because Feldblum is among the smartest and most experienced lawyers working on the administrative interpretation and enforcement of anti-discrimination laws.

Yesterday?s book titles, rewritten for today (here and here).  Some samples:

Then: The Theory of the Leisure Class

Now:  Buying Out Loud: The Unbelievable Truth About What We Consume and What It Says About Us

 

Then: Book of Genesis

Now: FLOOD! A true story of heartbreak, heroism, and the will to survive

 

(HT: Tyler Cowen)

Brad DeLong: The Chicago School's Intellectual Collapse Continued: Richard Posner Is Uranus...

             See prior Lounge coverage of Posner versus the macroeconomists here and here. 

An intervention against any visual representation of data (HT: Megan McArdle):

Why to choose Harvard law over Yale (1935 version), via Dan Ernst:

Most of the well-known men at Yale are men who are themselves bored with the law & have turned experimentalist.  They?re brilliant enough, & their writings are worth reading, but they are too interested in explaining to you how the law is a very different thing from what most people think, & how there really isn?t any such thing as law anyhow.  Now this is all very well & worth knowing, but you don?t practice law by telling a client or a judge that his traditional concepts are all screwy.  Defective as the tools of the law may be, you?ve got to be familiar with them & know how to use them.  I think the system & faculty at Harvard does this much better.  It?s true that Yale is smaller & more personal.  Harvard is a big, indifferent school & I hated it for two years.  But that very impersonality & size has developed a very self-reliant & highly competitive student attitude.  You have to learn to work out your own salvation, because no one will lift a finger to help you.

 

Full text at Et Seq.

The World?s Worst Wax Figures. (HT: Andrew Sullivan)

Cool NY Times interactive: How the Giants of Finance Shrank, Then Grew, Under the Financial Crisis.  (HT: Rolfe Winkler)
Prior Lounge coverage: Supersize Me: Too Big To Fail, and Getting Bigger

Via Mark Thoma, Are differences in risk aversion and competitiveness between men and women due to cultural pressures rather than innate tendencies?

Gender, risk, and competition, by Alison Booth. This column describes an experiment in which girls were found to be as competitive and risk-taking as boys when surrounded by only girls. This suggests cultural pressure to act as a girl could explain gender differences that are not innate.

See Danny?s prior related post here.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).