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Ah! So That Explains It

Posted on May 15, 2010
Barry Ritholtz.

Baseball Trivia

Posted on May 15, 2010
Hank Aaron hit 755 home runs on his way to Cooperstown. All cleared the fence. Except one. Name the HOF'er who served up Aaron's only inside-the-parker. Pictured: Henry Aaron card, #128 in the 2001 Topps Archives 1954 set.

The Greek Bailout: War Versus Dishonor

Posted on April 26, 2010
As I noted in my last post on this topic, this week will be an important one for the European monetary union. So I asked the Lounge?s informal counsel of sovereign debt experts for their views on what sorts of...

Filling the Gap

Posted on April 26, 2010
We come to the end of another semester. And in a few days our students will take our final exams. How do you handle student questions during this "gap" period between the last day of a scheduled class and the...

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Nuestras Voces Calls For Arizona Boycott

Posted on April 26, 2010
The blawgers over at Nuestras Voces Latinas (for those unfamiliar, Nuestras Voces is a law blog dedicated to perspectives on Latin-American communities and their issues) are calling for a boycott of Arizona. See, for example, this post: Today, I call...

Hoeflich on the History of the Book in the Antebellum United States

Posted on April 26, 2010
Mike Hoeflich's new book, Legal Publishing in Antebellum America, is now out from Cambridge. It combines a very fine reconstruction of the market for law books in pre-Civil War America with a study of the publishing industry. But for me...

What Do Those Greek Debt Contracts Say?

Posted on April 25, 2010
With predictions that this week will be the most important one in the history of Europe?s monetary union, I thought that the time was ripe to ask the Lounge?s informal counsel of sovereign debt experts for their views. Below is...

Raped (7500 times)

Posted on April 25, 2010
In March, outreach workers in Port au Prince documented 230 incidents of rape in 15 displacement camps. There are more than 500 camps in and around PAP. That's over 7500 rapes. And it's a month later. A spike in sexual...

SEC v. GS: Fraud? Maybe, But What?s The Point?

Posted on April 25, 2010
Well, risky as it is to attempt to wrap up an assessment of the Goldman case while news is constantly streaming in, I?m going to give it a shot, if only because I said I would. Of course, we may...

Hubble Telescope - 20th Anniversary

Posted on April 24, 2010
Today is the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble telescope and the telescope's latest image has just been released: For an archive of images and full story, see here.

Baseball Trivia

Posted on April 24, 2010
On this date (and for the first time) in baseball history, a batter hit a home run off of a pitcher who had already won over three hundred games and repeated the feat the very next inning off of a...

For Your Amusement and Entertainment

Posted on April 24, 2010
Baseball fans who enjoy working crossword puzzles may enjoy the challenge found here.

The Abacus Offering Circular

Posted on April 24, 2010
. . . all 196 pages of it, is here, via Felix Salmon. Yes, I know, I know that I promised a wrap-up post, but real life intervened ? the volcano flight ban lifted, the significant other finally made it...

A Reading Suggestion For New Law Profs

Posted on April 23, 2010
This week I read Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching: A Primer for New (and Not So New) Professors, co-authored by Howard Katz and Kevin O'Neill and published by Aspen Publishers in 2009. Here's a description from the publisher's...

Maybe Law Schools Should Hold A Draft

Posted on April 23, 2010
The NFL draft began last night, and continues through today and tomorrow. The draft is designed to create as much balance in the league as possible. Accordingly, the team with the worst record from the previous season has the opportunity...

This is a Rather Pedestrian Post

Posted on April 23, 2010
From Philadelphia comes news of a new literary magazine that's about to launch, called ... The Pedestrian. I love their logo -- reminds me of Emerson's eyeball ... except this time, the disembodied body part is the leg. (Or more...

YouTube Pulls Hitler Parodies, Sort Of

Posted on April 23, 2010
In 2004, a film named Downfall was released. I don't know what was in the whole movie, but it featured a scene designed to be a realistic account of Hitler confronting his likely fall. He sat in his office, faced...

Welcome to the Blogosphere, The Literary Table

Posted on April 22, 2010
I've just learned that one Warren Emerson (a pseudonym, I'm led to believe) has begun blogging at theliterarytable.com. One of the things I'm going to do is to try to figure out Mr. Emerson's identity. I've got a few guesses...

Want Less Police Violence? Hire Better Educated Cops.

Posted on April 22, 2010
Here's an abstract from a new study by Jason Rydberg and William Terrill in the Police Quarterly: In the past, police scholars have examined the impact of higher education on different measures of officer behavior, most notably arrest and the...

Dust Up Over Externship Credit Expansion At Georgetown

Posted on April 22, 2010
Georgetown University law students and faculty are discussing whether to expand the credit value of the school's externship program. Georgetown offers a maximum of 2 credits for externships and students are pushing for a 50% increase. The student proposal is...

Duke?s Schroeder confirmed as head of Office of Legal Policy

Posted on April 22, 2010
Christopher Schroeder, Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy at Duke, has been confirmed by the United States Senate to the post of assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy in the Department of...

Pedigree Diversity On The Supreme Court

Posted on April 22, 2010
University of Texas law prof Daniel Rodriguez shares his thoughts on the topic in this editorial.

Richard Graving: 1929-2010

Posted on April 22, 2010
Richard Graving, my friend and colleague, died earlier this week at the age of 81. Dick, who joined the South Texas faculty in 1983, taught conflicts, international human rights, international civil litigation, and other courses in which he could use...

The Goldman Earnings Call, Part 2 (It?s Not Our Fault Other People Are Stupid, And By The Way, We Lost A Bunch of Money Too)

Posted on April 21, 2010
In my last two posts, I went through the SEC?s complaint against Goldman Sachs and assessed the strength of the allegations, and began an analysis of the information shared by Goldman Sachs yesterday in its first quarter 2010 earnings call....

The Battle of San Jacinto

Posted on April 21, 2010
On this day in history -- 1836 -- Sam Houston led his Texan revolutionaries to a resounding victory over Mexico's General Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto (not too far from downtown Houston). Santa Anna's army outnumbered Houston's...

A Plan for More Comprehensive Law School Graduate Employment Data

Posted on April 21, 2010
Kyle P. McEntee and Patrick J. Lynch of Vanderbilt Law School have a new paper up on ssrn, "A Way Forward: Improving Transparency in Employment Reporting at American Law Schools." Their paper proposes more comprehensive collection and reporting of data...

Too Early for a Summer Reading List?

Posted on April 21, 2010
In the hopes that it's not too early (or too optimistic of me) to start thinking about summer reading - for fun, not work - I'll make a few suggestions below that people may be interested in picking up on...

The Goldman Earnings Call, Part 1: ACA Chose and It Doesn?t Matter Anyway

Posted on April 21, 2010
In my last post on this topic, I went through the SEC?s complaint against Goldman Sachs and assessed the strength of the allegations. At 11:00 am yesterday, Goldman Sachs held its first quarter 2010 earnings call. Naturally, the SEC complaint...

US News Law School Ranking Headlines

Posted on April 21, 2010
US News makes lots of money by producing its annual graduate school rankings. But the content US News creates gets repackaged and reported by loads of other media outlets. US News quite literally produces the news when it fabricates its...

Sometimes You've Got To Brag On Your Faculty

Posted on April 21, 2010
Every law school is looking for the same basic talents in faculty: a flair for teaching, a commitment to scholarship, and superb hand-eye coordination. It helps if you're fearless and can balance an ice cream in your free hand. As...

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