Academic

More renaming

Posted on July 20, 2010
Close on the heels of the renaming of Simkins Dormitory on the University of Texas campus comes news that Tuscaloosa is about to rename three streets in town.

Dodd-Frank Financial Reform: ?I?ll Have the Meatless Entrée, Please?

Posted on July 20, 2010
The administration and lawmakers are busy congratulating themselves on the ?historic? Dodd-Frank legislation, the ?toughest financial reform? since the Great Depression. Sure . . . if historic is synonymous with long, costly, needlessly complex, and likely to have little impact...

Joint degree and certificate programs at law schools

Posted on July 19, 2010
Many law schools these days offer a variety of joint degree and/or certificate programs. At Penn , for example, there are 19 formal joint degree programs , many of which can be finished in three years (including, I think, some...

Conglomerate Masters Forum: Dodd-Frank

Posted on July 19, 2010
The Conglomerate is holding a masters forum, starting today, on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, expected to be signed into law by President Obama this week. The Forum will feature commentary from several guest posters, including...

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Judge Sharon Keller (Update)

Posted on July 17, 2010
Last February, Dan blogged about Texas Court of Criminal Appeals presiding judge Sharon Keller and her decision concerning a last-minute appeal from a prisoner on death row. In January, I mentioned that a special master presiding over Judge Keller's ethics...

Baseball Trivia

Posted on July 17, 2010
On this date in 1941, the New York Yankees defeated the hometown Cleveland Indians by a score of 4-3. And Joe DiMaggio's record-shattering 56-game hitting streak came to an abrupt end (thanks in big part to two fantastic stabs at...

Senator Goodwin's Note

Posted on July 16, 2010
Congratulations to Carte Goodwin, soon to be sworn in as interim senator to Robert Byrd's seat. I noticed that (may I already call him) Senator Goodwin is a 1999 graduate of Emory Law School. While in school he authored a...

Law Prof Under Consideration To Head New Consumer Regulator

Posted on July 16, 2010
The WSJ is reporting that Harvard law prof Elizabeth Warren is under serious consideration by the White House to run the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Two other names also have emerged: Michael Barr (Treasury) and Gene Kimmelman (Justice)...

Oklahoma City University Law School To Stay Put

Posted on July 16, 2010
In this case, the news is that there is no news. OCU Law, which had been debating a move to an old Ford Model T plant near downtown Oklahoma City, has now shelved these plans. Instead, according to OCU President...

Law Prof Nominated For Federal Appellate Judgeship

Posted on July 15, 2010
President Obama has nominated Wisconsin law professor Victoria Nourse to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The Wisconsin press release is here. The White House nomination is here.

1920s Musical Trivia

Posted on July 15, 2010
Here's a quick and easy one... "Name a stage musical about Hollywood in the 1920s in which the role of Mack Sennett was never played by Robert Preston."

Workplace enforcement and Guest-worker programs

Posted on July 14, 2010
A few days ago the New York Times had an article about a change in immigration enforcement under the Obama administration. Like the Bush administration before it, the Obama administration has put more emphasis on ?workplace enforcement? than had been...

Musical Trivia - One More Try ...

Posted on July 14, 2010
As all my musical trivia questions seem to be too easy or too hard, I'm going to have one last try to see if I can get it just right. How about this one... What musical film's cast includes three...

The Em-Dash Controversy

Posted on July 14, 2010
Over the past few weeks, I?ve raised some questions about conservative notions of religious patriotism, liberal notions of equality, and empirical approaches to legal scholarship. Now I?d like to write about something controversial. I recently learned that Robert Bringhurst?s The...

America's Top 100 Best Small Cities

Posted on July 13, 2010
The folks at Money magazine have compiled a list of the nation's 100 best small cities in which to live. The top five are: 1. Eden Prairie, Minnesota 2. Columbia / Ellicott City, Maryland 3. Newton, Massachusetts 4. Bellevue, Washington...

Law Firm Partner Compensation and the Sex Gap

Posted on July 13, 2010
Hastings law prof Joan Williams (pictured) and Veta Richardson (executive director, Minority Corporate Counsel Association) have co-authored a report, dated this month, entitled New Millennium, Same Glass Ceiling? The Impact of Law Firm Compensation Systems on Women...

Thrillers: 100 Must Reads

Posted on July 12, 2010
Earlier this month, Oceanview Publishing released Thrillers: 100 Must Reads, co-edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner. The book examines 100 thrillers (beginning with a story penned in 1500 B.C., and concluding with a book published in 2003 that became...

Germany Allows Embryo Screening For Genetic Defects

Posted on July 12, 2010
Last week, the Federal Supreme Court in Leipzig ruled in support of a Berlin gynecologist who had screened embryos created during IVF for genetic defects prior to implanting them. This is an important case in Germany, which has quite restrictive...

The Little Man At the 116th Street Subway Station

Posted on July 12, 2010
Ralph Ellison, a sometime resident of Harlem and therefore neighbor of Columbia University, recalled in the 1970s a lesson he had learned as a music student at Tuskegee in the 1930s. After a tough recital, where he had not performed...

Sunday Night Broadway Trivia

Posted on July 11, 2010
Today's broadway trivia question has been contributed by Terry Martin (Harvard), currently visiting at U Texas. Here it is... "Name three Broadway musicals (excluding Kismet and Rent) that use tunes derived from notable classical tunes." Have fun ...

Field Trips for Law School Classes

Posted on July 11, 2010
This fall I?ll teach a course at Penn Law on criminal law theory. One of the readings for the course is Michel Foucault's book on the history of the prison, Discipline and Punish . During the part of the course...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Posted on July 11, 2010
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the publication date of Harper Lee's prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Fans of the book may enjoy this related news story. Five pieces of trivia: 1. Lee?s first name is Nelle, her grandmother?s...

The Option Value of Sponge Worthiness

Posted on July 11, 2010
Via Tyler Cowen, this paper: An Option Value Problem from Seinfeld? by Avinash Dixit, Princeton University June 12, 2010 Abstract This is a paper about nothing. __________________________________________________________________________________ ? I developed this model many years ago, but kept it hidden because...

What Does a Blog(g) Look Like?

Posted on May 31, 2010
For those of you who think that blogging is a recent phenomenon, you might want to think back to the 1970s when Dr Seuss apparently coined the term "blogg" for a creature that looks something like this ... (from The...

Happy "Quit Facebook" Day

Posted on May 31, 2010
Today is "Quit Facebook" Day - a day of protest where a group of disgruntled Facebook members are encouraging others to get off the social network site. Many of the concerns of the users have been about ways in which...

Athletes Who Served in the Military

Posted on May 31, 2010
On this Memorial Day we pause and remember the lives of men and women who died while serving our nation and protecting and preserving the many freedoms we all too often take for granted. Among those who have served in...

BYU Law Professor Nominated to Utah Supreme Court

Posted on May 31, 2010
BYU law professor Tom Lee (pictured) has been nominated by Governor Gary Herbert to a seat on the Utah Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by a recent retirement. Lee, who joined the BYU law faculty in 1997, is...

Brandywine Sycamore Tree

Posted on May 31, 2010
In honor of Memorial Day, I thought I'd write some more about the battle of the Brandywine . I returned from winter break a few months back with a few pictures of the Brandywine Battlefield -- and some new-found knowledge...

Who?s On First? Euro Crisis Edition

Posted on May 30, 2010
Via Greg Mankiw

Symposium: Baseball and American Culture

Posted on May 30, 2010
A few days ago the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum posted its program for the upcoming symposium on Baseball and American Culture. Some of the panel topics include: Baseball in Uniform: America's Pastime at War Here's the Pitch:...

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