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Sunday Links Round Up

Posted on July 26, 2009
Mary Dudziak, at Legal History Blog, discusses books and book reviews of interest to legal historians, including Charlotte Brooks' new book, Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (University of Chicago Press, 2009) (see...

Paying The Ultimate Price For Your Faith

Posted on July 26, 2009
Yesterday's local newspaper reported that 33-year-old Ri Hyon Ok was publicly executed last month in North Korea. The story also mentions that her husband, three children, and parents have been sent to a political prison. The crime? Ri Hyon Ok...

Around The Blogosphere (And Beyond)

Posted on July 25, 2009
Naomi Cahn?s new book, Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation, is reviewed by Anne Lyerly in this week?s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. See here for an extract (subscription required for more). In...

Posner Conversation on How Judges Think

Posted on July 25, 2009
Something that hasn't gotten the attention it deserves in the blogosphere is the conversation that Richard Posner had with a Duke Law School class led by David Levi and Mitu Gulati. The Duke Law Journal has recently printed it. The...

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Baseball Trivia: "Career" Triple Crown Winners

Posted on July 25, 2009
An earlier post raised the topic of Triple Crown winners -- a player who, in a single season, leads his league in homers, runs batted in, and batting average. The great Carl Yastrzemski was the last player to achieve this...

Rashomon on Ware Street

Posted on July 25, 2009
I'd told myself that I wouldn't blog about Henry Lewis Gates' arrest, because I have nothing to add that hasn't been said better by someone else already. But I now have a title for one of the articles that certainly...

Are You Featured In Facebook Ads? Opt Out Today!

Posted on July 24, 2009
Thanks to a friend's post on Facebook, I've just learned that Facebook now has a default feature that allows Facebook advertisers to use your news feed and wall to sell their products. As explained by Facebook itself, Facebook occasionally pairs...

Wanted: Cat Herder

Posted on July 24, 2009
Wanna be a law school dean? Wanna live in the Dallas area? If you answered "yes" to these questions, then perhaps you should apply to be the founding dean at the start-up law school at the University of North Texas....

UC Civil War Expands to Law School

Posted on July 24, 2009
On Monday, I noted that 21 UC San Diego department heads had signed a letter sent to all UC Chancellors urging them to preserve its elite, world-class research campuses ? namely UCSD, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Francisco ?...

Who Acted Stupidly?

Posted on July 24, 2009
A pedestrian out for a walk notices two men wearing backpacks jimmying open the front door of a house. She calls 911 to report what appears to be a burglary in progress. A cop responds to the broadcast of an...

Because Law Professors Are A-Holes

Posted on July 23, 2009
Number 7 of The Top 8 Reasons Not to Go to Law School: Law school professors are some of the most pretentious and arrogant people on this earth. They know everything about everything. In office hours you will find yourself...

Freak show owner fights for puppy ... saves law professor time

Posted on July 23, 2009
It's nice when the local newspaper writes potential exam questions for you. This article, which displays a fine eye for legal nuance, features: a five-legged dog a contract between the dog's owner and ... wait for it ... the owner...

See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Tax Me

Posted on July 23, 2009
In a post on Wednesday, When Taxpayers Welcome Taxes, Steven Levitt discussed this CNN report on Oakland?s new ?pot tax?: OAKLAND, California (CNN) -- Oakland's bid to become the first U.S. city to tax proceeds on medical marijuana passed Tuesday...

More on Arresting Harvard Professors

Posted on July 23, 2009
I've been following the discussions of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr's arrest on the blogs and elsewhere, including today's report on CNN quoting President Obama saying that the police had "acted stupidly" in arresting a man at his own house...

NYU Law's Visiting Professor Of Homophobia Withdraws

Posted on July 23, 2009
If you haven't been following the story, NYU Law invited a scholar (and former legislator) from Singapore to teach human rights courses this fall. While a member of the Singapore Parliment, Li-ann Thio had opposed the decriminalization of gay sex....

Faculty Leadership

Posted on July 22, 2009
I attended a seminar on university leadership today. Here's some random impressions. 1. We did lots of talking about the importance of listening (but not much actual listening). I guess that's to be expected in a short program with a...

Rethinking Lifetime Tenure For Supreme Court Justices

Posted on July 22, 2009
Proposal: ?Instead of lifetime tenure, each justice could be appointed to a finite term. If the justices served for 18 years, every president could appoint two justices during each four-year term.? Advantages? ?First, by ensuring that each president has an...

Shouldn't there be a question mark in that title somewhere?

Posted on July 22, 2009
Following up on my earlier post on consumer debt arbitration: the National Arbitration Forum has announced, as part of a settlement with the State of Minnesota, that it is withdrawing from the business of conducting any form of consumer arbitration.....

Bank Failures in Historical Perspective

Posted on July 22, 2009
Calculated Risk had a great analysis of bank failures over the weekend. On Friday, the FDIC closed four banks -- Temecula Valley Bank, Temecula, California; Vineyard Bank, National Association, Rancho Cucamonga, California; BankFirst, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and First Piedmont...

Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard

Posted on July 22, 2009
That's the title of this article in the August edition of Vanity Fair. From Nina Munk?s lead-in: Only a year ago, Harvard had a $36.9 billion endowment, the largest in academia. Now that endowment has imploded, and the university faces...

Home Funeral, Backyard Burial, and the Easement for Access

Posted on July 22, 2009
I see the New York Times has an article on the rising number of home funerals -- and the rising number of people buried on family property, rather than in a separate cemetery. There's something appealing about the return to...

It's true, it's really true!!

Posted on July 22, 2009
Remember when your physics teacher told you how the water spins clockwise in the north, counter-clockwise in the south - or is it the other way around? Anyway, its true, its really true! I crossed the equator this week on...

Clevelanders on Moon Day

Posted on July 21, 2009
After Mark and Kim's posts on Moon Day yesterday, and my comments about what percentage of Cleveland radio listeners still believe the moon landing was a hoax, I was interested in today's readers' poll in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. People...

Why your dean wants you to go to Starbucks

Posted on July 21, 2009
I lived in Seattle for years and, of course, spent a lot of time in coffee shops. I found that they provided an environment wonderfully conducive to writing. I never really liked writing in my faculty office. There were too...

The Law of Baseball

Posted on July 21, 2009
Tim Zinnecker has caused all of us who read the Faculty Lounge to strut our knowledge of baseball lore. Even Tim?s very cool dad is engaged in the interchange! But, Tim, this is a law blog. How about some information...

The News From July 21, 1930

Posted on July 21, 2009
As regular readers know, I?m a fan of the blog News from 1930, which provides a daily news summary based upon the author?s reading of the Wall Street Journal from the corresponding day in 1930. Today?s entry is especially good:...

What's the Scholarship on the Sotomayor Hearings Going to Look Like?

Posted on July 21, 2009
As I'm taking a mid-morning break from edits on Integrating Spaces, I see that lots of legal academics are disappointed in the Sotomayor hearings. I enjoyed listening to them (a little bit on CSPAN radio as I was driving through...

Plan For (All Of) Your Futures At Reincarnation Bank

Posted on July 21, 2009
From Reincarnation Bank?s Website: Scriptures throughout the ages predict man's reincarnation and rebirth. During the transition period to your next life, 2i Limited is offering safe keeping for any asset you wish to deposit. There are people who say they...

Are Fish Tacos The New Latte?

Posted on July 21, 2009
How do we characterize people we consider effete and out of touch? A popular term has been latte drinker. As in "Nancy Pelosi is a latte liberal." But I discovered some new language while plumbing the depths of Kim's UC...

Trusts and Estates in the Antebellum South

Posted on July 20, 2009
Earlier this summer I mentioned that some Confederate cash was found in the probate office of an Alabama courthouse recently. While Stephen Davis and I were working on our study of probate practices in antebellum Greene County, Alabama, we had...

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