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SENATOR TED KENNEDY AND THE DEREGULATORY AGENDA

Posted on August 27, 2009
The avalanche of commentary on the life of Senator Kennedy has mostly concentrated on his commitments to and successes in legislating around issues of social justice. His central role in the advancement of the deregulation movement has received far less...

The Faculty Cocktail Lounge

Posted on August 27, 2009
Taking up Kim Krawiec's excellent suggestion, here is my contribution to law & cocktails blogging: I wonder if anyone has written an article on country music and domestic relations law?

Bank Failures and FDIC Fund Losses

Posted on August 26, 2009
The bank failures are coming fast and furious (and large) now ? a poor blawger can barely keep up. In my last post on bank failures, Bank Failures Update And Future Problem Banks, I noted that the total number of...

Trading Up or Falling by the Wayside?

Posted on August 26, 2009
In an effort to empathize with those people on the entry level market anxiously awaiting calls from interested schools, I thought I might try and start a parallel "anxiety thread" for law profs and aspiring law profs who are currently...

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Mid-week Links

Posted on August 26, 2009
Most people don?t understand sarcasm. At Psychcentral, via Andrew Sullivan: the majority of people ? 55 percent ? who responded to this survey thought they were giving an example of a sarcastic remark they made, when in fact what they...

Fly Fishing: A Legal Angle

Posted on August 26, 2009
I want to thank Dan for inviting me to visit here at the Lounge. As I was casting about for what to write for my first post, I decided that Kim Krawiec's recent post about saltwater and freshwater economists, and...

If You Thought Nobody Would Notice . . .

Posted on August 26, 2009
In thinking last night about the issues raised in one of my first posts here as a guest blogger, I started looking for additional examples of the persistence of digital artifacts. In running my searches, I came across other issues...

Welcome Guest Blogger Eric Fink

Posted on August 25, 2009
We're very pleased to welcome Eric Fink as a guest blogger here at the Faculty Lounge. Eric is an Associate Professor at Elon School of Law. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins, the London School of Economics, and NYU...

More Conversations About Richard Posner And The People He Fights With

Posted on August 25, 2009
As I predicted in my last post on this topic, Richard Posner?s current dispute with the macroeconomists continues to provide entertainment and, perhaps, education (at least for me). For example, in a third post on Friday on the topic, Posner...

In Memoriam: Judge Andree Roaf

Posted on August 25, 2009
One of the quiet heroines of the ABA accreditation process, Judge Andree Roaf, recently passed away. Judge Roaf was the first African-American woman to serve as a justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court. She thoughtfully brought her experiences as a...

Let Atheists (or Jews or Muslims) Care For Your Pets After the Rapture

Posted on August 25, 2009
For a small fee, of course. Via Tyler Cowen, two websites -- Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA and JesusPets ? that promise a service in which atheists who are also animal-lovers agree to care for the pets of those taken in...

Follow Justin @shitmydadsays

Posted on August 24, 2009
Seriously, folks, if you needed a reason to join Twitter, this is it. "Justin" is apparently 28 years old, and says in his bio: "I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down shit that he...

Hatfields And McCoys Move To Alabama; Families Riot In Marion

Posted on August 24, 2009
You don't see this every day: two feuding families rioted in bustling downtown Marion, Aalabama (pop. 29,465) today. I'm surprised the National Guard wasn't called in; everyone else was! The details from the Birmingham News: Officers from eight police departments...

Second FAR Distribution

Posted on August 24, 2009
So, my calendar says the second AALS FAR distribution happens this week. Anyone want to guess how many CVs this time around? Since I was so way off the first time, I hesitate to even guess, but for what it's...

Trespassory Art and the Limits of the Right of Exclusion

Posted on August 24, 2009
Randall Bezanson and Andrew Finkelman have posted a most creative work, "Trespassory Art," on ssrn. In short they argue for an expansion of the rights of artists to trespass on public and private property and perform on that property--an expansion,...

Maine's "Resident Only" Lobstering Proposal: Constitutional?

Posted on August 23, 2009
The remote islands off the Maine coast are tough places to make a living. Indeed, Maine is a tough place to make a living. As a part-time resident of Maine I am sympathetic to the pressures afflicting hard-working Mainers. As...

Strange Copyright Claims: Copyright and Train Schedules

Posted on August 23, 2009
I was, for awhile, trying to collect strange (ie, largely indefensible) copyright claims. I didn't get a lot of feedback on this, so the project died. You can, of course, always visit Chilling Effects to find these kinds of cases,...

The Constitutional Validity of ObamaCare

Posted on August 23, 2009
In a provocative op-ed in the Washington Post David Rivkin and Lee Casey argue that the requirement that every American purchase health insurance is unconstitutional because the regulated activity is non-economic and has insufficiently substantial effects on interstate commerce...

I need a faculty retreat like I need a hole in the head . . . Hey, wait!

Posted on August 23, 2009
We had our faculty retreat last week, which, strangely, got me thinking about drilling holes in my head. So I decided to do some internet digging on the phenomenon. Via Wired Science, Archeologists have found some amazing things in peat...

Weekend Links

Posted on August 22, 2009
In this iTunes podcast, Dan Ariely (of Predictably Irrational fame) interviews Duke law prof Barak Richman about Richman?s current research on insurance coverage of outpatient mental health services. John Yoo and Academic Freedom: Berkeley law dean Chris Edley at Balkinization,...

Call For Papers, Law & Literature, John Jay College (CUNY)

Posted on August 21, 2009
Call For Papers Second Biennial Literature and Law Conference When: April 16, 2010 (Friday) Where: John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) (59th Street and 10th Avenue?near Lincoln Center in Manhattan) Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Andrew Majeske, ajmajeske@gmail...

Computer Terrorism and the Laws of War

Posted on August 21, 2009
A colleague of mine today raised an interesting question to which I don't know the answer. He wondered if anyone was writing on the parallels between cyber-terrorism and the laws of war. He was thinking specifically about situations where a...

Friday Funny

Posted on August 21, 2009
How is it that we put someone on the moon before figuring it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage? -Kathleen Bergin

Concentrated Crime, Cheaper Solutions

Posted on August 21, 2009
In his wonderful book, Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse, Todd Clear shows that prisoners come overwhelmingly from a small number of communities. These affected communities are then devastated by the effects of this export and stigmatization...

Haggling Over ... What Exactly?

Posted on August 20, 2009
Contracts are pretty neat things, even when they don?t feature elaborate iconography. One reason is that they reveal a lot about how parties anticipate and plan for disputes. I?ve been thinking about this subject lately in connection with a project...

Judge Orders Westlaw and Lexis To Remove Opinions in Kline v. Amtrak. So Access Them Here.

Posted on August 20, 2009
Amtrak agreed to a confidential settlement with two PA teens who suffered massive burns in 2002 after they climbed aboard a parked railcar and stepped too close to a live wire. Part of the settlement calls for the trial judge...

The Faculty Lounge Conversations

Posted on August 20, 2009
The Faculty Lounge Conversations About Richard Posner And the People He Fights With Not being very tech savvy, this was the best I could do in terms of remaking our banner and motto to reflect current events here at the...

Lockerbie Bomber Released From Scottish Jail

Posted on August 20, 2009
The Scots have caused what is starting to amount to an international storm by releasing Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. According to the initial BBC...

Google on Coffee

Posted on August 20, 2009
News has been out for a week or so that Google is test-driving, and encouraging others to test drive, a new search algorithm, which it calls "Caffeine." According to Google: For the last several months, a large team of Googlers...

When Zombies Attack!

Posted on August 19, 2009
In keeping with our mission of bringing readers the latest in cutting edge research, a team of researchers (two students and one faculty member) from Carleton University (no, not lovely Carleton College!) and the University of Ottawa have published an...

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