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Today in Presidential History: Yorba Linda Edition

Posted on January 09, 2009
1.9.1913: Nixon was born in Yorba Linda. A dynasty: One of Yorba’s daughters, Maria Rosa, married Leonardo Cota, a renown ranchero-pueblo descendant, of Mexican-American war fame, later to be one of the early Los Angeles County Supervisors. Another daughter, Ramona, married Benjamin Davis Wilson, one of the first mayors of The City of Los Angeles...

Modeling Collegial Courts

Posted on January 09, 2009
New from Chuck Cameron and Lewis Kornhauser: We present a formal game theoretic model of adjudication by a collegial court. Distinctively, the model incorporates dispute resolution as well as judicial policy making and indicates the relationship between the two...

RFP: Evaluation and Analysis of USAID?s Political Party Strengthening Programs

Posted on January 09, 2009
From HED: HED expects to make one (1) award of up to $685,000, contingent on USAID funding, for a two -year period of performance for an evaluation to identify the impact of USAID assistance on political party development and democratization, and advance technical knowledge and understanding in the field of political party strengthening...

Casual Friday: Balloon Man Edition

Posted on January 09, 2009
With Kenny Wollesen!       

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Today in Presidential History: Johnny Horton Edition

Posted on January 08, 2009
1.8.1815: Jackson leads American troops against the British at the Battle of New Orleans.       

RFP: CAFTA-DR Environmental Law Capacity Building Initiative

Posted on January 08, 2009
From HED: HED expects to make one (1) award of up to $650,000 for a higher education partnership to strengthen environmental law capacity building in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Nicaragua as part of the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) and the Environmental Cooperation Agreement (ECA)...

Hodgepodge

Posted on January 08, 2009
Teach yourself programming in ten years Harvard Business School’s “Working Knowledge” blog’s Most Popular Articles and Working Papers of 2008 USAID data at Pitt You and Your Research Turn text into a audio file in OS X       

Government Performance Czar

Posted on January 07, 2009
For those tracking such things, Obama just named Nancy Killefer from McKinsey & Company as “chief performance officer.” WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama, who faces trillion-dollar government deficits stretching into coming years, named on Wednesday a former Treasury official as the first U...

CFP: 2nd International Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets

Posted on January 07, 2009
Submission Deadline: January 12th, 2009 The conference aims to facilitate dissemination of state of the art research on corporate governance in emerging markets, with the objective of supporting policy and practice development. To this end, it solicits ideas from both theory and policy perspectives as to how to further improve corporate governance research...

Today in Presidential History: First Race Edition

Posted on January 07, 2009
    1.7.1789: The first U.S. presidential election is held. The electoral count is here. The Constitution left it up to each state to choose the manner in which their Electors were chosen (Article II, section 1). North Carolina and Rhode Island had not yet ratified the Constitution and had no Electors in the election of 1789...

Moneylaw for UW Law?

Posted on January 07, 2009
Moneylaw blog editor and dean at Louisville School of Law Dean Jim Chen is in the mix for the Dean position at the University of Washington School of Law. Will UW play moneylaw? Stay tuned.       

On killing the billable hour

Posted on January 07, 2009
The WSJ Blog has an interesting interview with Cravath, Swain & Moore managing partner Evan Chesler on killing the billable hour paradigm in legal services. Here’s an excerpt:   Evan Chesler, a Cravath lifer and the firm?s presiding partner, has become the most recent high-profile lawyer to call for the end of the billable hour...

PoMo on the Decline

Posted on January 06, 2009
Sez Gabrielle Spiegel, president of the AHA: ?The whole influence of poststructuralist and postmodernist historiography is receding,? she said. ?What is worth saving?? Where it came from: By the late 1980s, Ms. Spiegel noted, many historians were calling the impact of postmodernism ?an epistemological crisis? that undermined traditional ideas of causation and action in history...

Bureaucratic Politics Panels at the Southern Political Science Association

Posted on January 06, 2009
Three panels this Thursday in beautiful downtown NOLA: New Approaches for Understanding Preferences, with Christian R Grose (Vanderbilt University), David Lewis (Princeton University), George A. Krause (University of Pittsburgh), and Anthony M Bertelli (University of Georgia/University of Southern California), Thu, Jan 8 - 11:30am - 1:00pm...

One Fish, two Fish ?

Posted on January 06, 2009
Movie fans might check out Stanley Fish’s top 10 American movies of all time and his discussion thereof in the New York Times. Here’s the quick read (only the first 2 are in order, the others are tied for 3rd according to Fish): 1. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 2...

Today in Presidential History: TR Edition

Posted on January 06, 2009
    1.6.1919: TR dies. But the “bully pulpit” lives!       

The Power of R

Posted on January 06, 2009
R hits the NYT. To some people R is just the 18th letter of the alphabet. To others, it?s the rating on racy movies, a measure of an attic?s insulation or what pirates in movies say. R is also the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and [...

What Historians are Saying about Bush/Cheney

Posted on January 05, 2009
From the Chronicle: But at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association here, the collective judgment seems to be that those trends haven?t been all that new ? and won?t be easy to change. None of those trends are new in the last eight years, Ms...

Data Notes: New at ICPSR

Posted on January 05, 2009
4457 Role of Law Enforcement in Public School Safety in the United States, 2002 22460 Exploring Factors Influencing Family Members Connections to Incarcerated Individuals in New Jersey, 2005-2006 23082 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2007 23900 Executions in the United States, 1608-1940: The ESPY File — Summary Data of Executions Collected by M...

Mean Neurotics Win!

Posted on January 05, 2009
Reports the Economist: ECONOMISTS are not known for their scintillating personalities. So it comes as little surprise that, when it comes to accounting for the wage premium, skills and cognitive ability tend to be studied more than personality. Guido Heineck bucks that trend by looking at the correlation between personality traits and income...

Today in Presidential History: Coolidge Edition

Posted on January 05, 2009
    1.5.1933: Calvin Coolidge dies. Interesting: Although Calvin Coolidge is widely judged to have been a weak and even an incompetent president, this study concludes that he was a leader disabled by a crippling emotional breakdown. After an impressive early career, Coolidge assumed the presidency upon the death of Warren Harding...

RFP: Science of Virtues

Posted on January 05, 2009
See here. The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago announces a new $3 million research program on a New Science of Virtues. This is a multidisciplinary research initiative that seeks contributions from individuals and from teams of investigators working within the humanities and the sciences...

On ?Some Modest Advice for Young Scholars?

Posted on January 05, 2009
On the Conglomerate Blog, editor Gordon Smith provides some advice for young legal scholars working toward tenure. Overall, I think that his advice is helpful and provides some good guidelines. However, like some of the post’s commenters, I’m concerned that his points may be a little too general and some discussion about the nuances of [...

The Next Solicitor General

Posted on January 05, 2009
The Economist’s Democracy in America writes: ELENA KAGAN, the dean of Harvard Law School, will be America’s next solicitor general. That probably won’t get A1 coverage, but it’s pretty important. Call it a “prelude”: But the selection of Ms Kagan also invites further speculation about just how far she will rise...

Today in Presidential History: Great Society Edition

Posted on January 04, 2009
  1.4.1965: LBJ speaks about the “Great Society” in his SOU address. For your reading pleasure: Shapers of the Great Debate on the Great Society: A Biographical Dictionary, by Lawson Bowling.       

Review of Reviews

Posted on January 04, 2009
Pearce, Fred. When the Rivers Run Dry: Water–The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century.  Boston: Beacon Press, 2006. Yellin, Keith.  Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008...

More applications of ?Outliers? to academia

Posted on January 03, 2009
On the Law School Innovation Blog Mark Osler has two posts relating Malcolm Gladwell’s ideas in “Outliers” to legal academia; the first on Gladwell’s ‘hours of practice’ concept and the second on how rules of advancement affect outcomes as to who becomes ‘outliers’ or star performers...

CFP: Relational Theories of Organization

Posted on January 03, 2009
Call for Papers?Special Issue on Towards a Relational Understanding of Organization and Value: For Whom? For What? To What Effect? Guest Editors: Craig Prichard, Massey University, New Zealand Sarah Stookey, Central Connecticut State University, USA Stefano Harney, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Deadline for submissions: 2 March 2009 This special issue is posed as a challenge to critical organizational scholars to [...

Today in Presidential History: March of Dimes Edition

Posted on January 03, 2009
  1.3.1938: The March of Dimes is organized. In 1937, after he was already president, Roosevelt established the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Comedian Eddie Cantor suggested a plan to help raise money for the foundation, whose goal was to provide care to polio victims and to support research...

Need a Syllabus?

Posted on January 02, 2009
UVA’s Miller Center has a nice collection, mostly history-oriented.       

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