Legal Commentary

As Blawg Review is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

Posted on May 18, 2010
Irish attorney Rossa McMahon hosts this week's Blawg Review #264 at his A Clatter in the Law blog. His post commemorates the Irish famine of the late 1840s, which resulted in not only the deaths of a million Irish, but also the emigration of a million more from Ireland...

TGIS: Thanks God It's Schadenfreude! (270)

Posted on May 14, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Boing Boing (from Wednesday, May 12; link good at time of posting):naika_tei is a Twitter user and anime song DJ in Tokyo. Last week, he found himself stranded in the third floor toilet of an electronics store in Akihabara with a soiled ass and no toilet paper...

A Round Tuit (31)

Posted on May 12, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

Next week's Blawg Review may be an Elvis Costello cover of this week's Blawg Review.

Posted on May 10, 2010
She may be the reason I surviveThe why and where for I'm aliveThe one I'll care for through the rough and rainy yearsMe I'll take her laughter and her tearsAnd make them all my souvenirsFor where she goes I got to beThe meaning of my life is sheThe Charles Aznavour song "She" was popular in Britain in the mid-1970s; it's a beautiful tribute to the women in our lives and all the meaning which they add...

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TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (269)

Posted on May 07, 2010
This Week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Columbus Dispatch (from Wednesday, May 5; link good at time of posting):The FBI said that Lois J. Harvey, 40, handed a robbery note to a teller at Chase Bank on 1245 E. Long Street. Little did she know, an off-duty Columbus police officer in full uniform was in line behind her...

A Round Tuit (30)

Posted on May 05, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

Blawg Review will cure your World Press Freedom Day hangover.

Posted on May 04, 2010
I would've mentioned World Press Freedom Day yesterday, but I was too busy preparing for Star Wars Day. Now that Star Wars Day is mostly in the books, I'd like to highlight this week's World Press Freedom Day-themed Blawg Review #262. Hosted by a legal blogging outsider, Matthew VanVoorhis, at the Public Intellectual site, this edition of the carnival of legal blogging focuses on speech-related issues...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (268)

Posted on April 30, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Wednesday, April 28; link good at time of posting):A man who thought he was sailing along the coast of southern England had to be rescued by emergency services after his motor boat ran out of fuel while repeatedly circling a small island in the River Thames estuary...

A Round Tuit (29)

Posted on April 28, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

There's a lot of IP in "Phillips".

Posted on April 26, 2010
This week's Blawg Review #261 is hosted by Jeremy Phillips at The IPKat. He was recruited to host the carnival of legal blogging on World Intellectual Property Day and he offers a good collection of recent legal blogging on intellectual property topics...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (267)

Posted on April 23, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Inquisitr (from Wednesday, April 21; link good at time of posting):[Previous TGIS]

A Round Tuit (28)

Posted on April 21, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

Blawg Review pays tribute to Watson and Crick, the greatest Anglo-American comedy duo since Laurel and Hardy.

Posted on April 19, 2010
This Friday is DNA Day, commemorating the 1953 scientific paper wherein James Watson and Francis Crick published their description of the double helix structure of DNA. Their discovery made possible today's precise genetic testing, without which thousands of illegitimate offspring of NBA players would be living in poverty...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (266)

Posted on April 16, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The New York Times (from Monday, April 12; link good at time of posting):It is often said that the new health care law will affect almost every American in some way. And, perhaps fittingly if unintentionally, no one may be more affected than members of Congress themselves...

A Round Tuit (27)

Posted on April 14, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

Happy Fifth Birthday, Blawg Review!

Posted on April 12, 2010
I can still remember how excited I felt to see my then-young legal blog linked in the very first edition of Blawg Review. I was a bundle of nerves when I hosted my first Blawg Review and floored when it won the first Blawg Review of the Year award. The Blawg Review Editor conferred an even greater honor sometime thereafter when he asked me to become a Blawg Review Sherpa...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (265)

Posted on April 09, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Asbury Park Press (from Monday, April 5; link good at time of posting):Two Polish men were arrested while frantically trying to retrieve a safe they had buried on a beach underneath the high tide mark...

A Round Tuit (26)

Posted on April 07, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

A Blawg Review Three Hundred Years in the Making

Posted on April 06, 2010
This week marks the three hundredth anniversary of the enactment of the Statute of Anne, considered the first copyright law. As Cathy Gellis explains in this week's Blawg Review #258, the issues of expression, commerce, author's rights, readers' access, and freedom the Statute addressed are still debated today:[T]otal power over the creation and dissemination of written works would cause a politically restless populace to bristle, and Parliament eventually acted to wrest the Royal Privilege to publish from this cabal and restore it to the population at large...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (264)

Posted on April 02, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Guardian (from Tuesday, March 30; link good at time of posting):The trouble started when Raj Patel appeared on American TV to plug his latest book, an analysis of the financial crisis called The Value of Nothing...

A Round Tuit (25)

Posted on March 31, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

Question Authority

Posted on March 29, 2010
Lance Godard, who produces the 22 Tweets Twitter-based interview series, hosts Blawg Review #257 this week at his Are You Writing This Down? blog.Until now, finding one's post included in the carnival of legal blogging marks the end of the blogging process; nothing more is required of you, apart from basking in the well-deserved glow of your peers' acclaim...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (263)

Posted on March 26, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of CNN (from Wednesday, March 24; link good at time of posting):Authorities said a bank employee received a phone call from a person demanding that $100,000 in large bills be gathered, or there would be a "blood bath" if the orders were not carried out...

A Round Tuit (24)

Posted on March 24, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

"Blawg Reviews. He's welcome to them."

Posted on March 23, 2010
Kevin Thompson, the reigning Blawg Review of the Year award winner, hosts this week's edition of the carnival of legal blogging at his Cyberlaw Central blog. The science fiction-minded Thompson honors his favorite science fiction novel, Frank Herbert's Dune in Blawg Review #256...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (262)

Posted on March 19, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Wednesday, March 17; link good at time of posting):Alaska State Troopers needed just one traffic stop to make two arrests for drunken driving. Troopers said a highway patrol officer arrested a 42-year-old man for drunken driving after stopping him for speeding on Sunday...

A Round Tuit (23)

Posted on March 17, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

BigLaw Ends; Women, Minorities Hardest Hit

Posted on March 15, 2010
There's an old joke about a propensity amongst dead tree media (particularly The New York Times) to recast every general disaster as something with a particular impact on women and minorities (it's easy enough to query for a few examples).There have been thousands of layoffs of attorneys and staff from BigLaw firms over the past couple of years and the bloggers at Law Shucks have been better than most at tracking the numbers and appreciating the impact of this change in the legal landscape...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (261)

Posted on March 12, 2010
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Popehat (from Thursday, March 11; link good at time of posting):[Previous TGIS]

A Round Tuit (22)

Posted on March 10, 2010
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

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