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Is the Ninth Circuit Really That Liberal?

Posted on April 25, 2010
The NY Times carries an interesting story on this question, prompted perhaps by President Obama’s recent nomination of ‘liberal Berkeley law professor” Goodwin Liu to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Times turns to political scientists for empirical analysis of this proposition – I don’t know why the media would do this, surely Tucker [...

Althouse on airlines? carry on baggage fees

Posted on April 19, 2010
Somehow this matter has taken on an ideological dimension. The rather interesting post comments suggest that it probably has little to do with ideology notwithstanding legislative activity by Democrat members of congress to curtail such fees. Check it out here...

Renting vs. Buying and the return on residential real estate

Posted on April 17, 2010
Ramit Sethi has a great post on this along with an excerpt from his book on this subject here. Filed under: Jeff, Uncategorized

Justin Wolfers on citing economists

Posted on April 17, 2010
On the Freakonomics blog, Justin Wolfers complains about the fact that economists do not get their work cited by other academics very much and then posits potential explanations. But first, the intro: There?s no doubt in my mind that economics is currently the queen of the social sciences...

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Wasserman on video evidence and civil rights

Posted on April 14, 2010
Howard Wasserman (Prawfs Blawg) has posted a paper to SSRN – “Orwell’s Vision: Video and the Future of Civil Rights Enforcment” (also available in Maryland Law Review). Here’s the abstract: The future of the enforcement of civil rights and civil liberties is linked to video...

Getting a shout out from the president in the SUA

Posted on April 09, 2010
The American Presidency Project has a listing of all presidential personal acknowledgments during the State of the Union Message since Reagan. Here are his shout outs: Ronald Reagan January 26, 1982 Lenny Skutnik: Federal Government employee who dove into the icy Potomic River after the Air Florida crash to save a woman January 25, 1983 [...

How to Submit a Paper

Posted on April 06, 2010
Torn between the AJPS and JELS? Between the APSR and JOP? Can’t settle the QJPS vs. JLEO debate? Never fear – we now have a model to sort out all those complicated choices. Says Heintzelman and Nocetti: In this paper, we analyze the problem faced by impatient researchers attempting to balance the considerations of journal [...

Bush/Blair ? Endless Love

Posted on April 05, 2010
Just because you might need something like this on a Monday… Filed under: Jeff, politics, Pop Culture, Presidency

New law school rankings

Posted on April 05, 2010
As set forth on TaxProf Blog — more available here on Leiter’s Rankings. School Citations U.S. News Peer SSRN Downloads Mean Rank Yale 1 1 5 2.3 Harvard 2 1 1 1.3 Chicago 3 4 3 3.3 Stanford 4 3 6 5.0 NYU 5 6 9 6.7 Columbia 6 4 4 4.7 UC-Berkeley 7 6 [...

Lobbying is up in the down economy

Posted on April 01, 2010
Look for our friend Tony Bertelli at about 1:30 on this Fox broadcast. Filed under: Jeff

The story of bottled water

Posted on March 31, 2010
Of course, I’m going to be disappointed if this was funded by a water filter company H/T http://twitter.com/tferriss Filed under: Jeff

Wi Fi phone calls on your iPhone? The Line 2 Application

Posted on March 30, 2010
The NY Times reviews a new app, “Line 2″, which allows users to make phone calls without AT&T charges in wifi hotspots – among other things. It also turns an iPod Touch into an iPhone (sort of) and provides cheap international calling – it does have a monthly fee though...

Facebook?s new ?place? feature

Posted on March 29, 2010
Somehow I don’t see any good coming from this: (CNN) — Facebook on Friday proposed creating a way for people to add their locations to Facebook pages but released almost no details about how the feature will work. The location-based feature, hinted at in a post on Facebook’s blog, would give the social network’s 400 [...

All the president?s pens

Posted on March 27, 2010
Filed under: Jeff, Law, politics, Presidency

?Defenders of Liberty or Champions of Security?

Posted on March 22, 2010
You can find Kirk’s webpage here. Here’s some ad copy for his recently released book: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent responses by the U.S. federal government have raised fundamental questions about civil liberties in both domestic and international laws...

Higher education budget cuts in relative space

Posted on March 08, 2010
Tax Prof Blog has an interesting post on school budget cuts; here’s an excerpt: 32.6% of faculty had their salaries reduced, with a median decrease of 3% 21.2% of faculty had their salaries frozen 46.2% of faculty had their salaries increased, with a median increase of 3% 8...

Casual Friday: Fleemco!

Posted on March 04, 2010
Filed under: Andy, Pop Culture

Post doc opportunity in Brussels

Posted on February 28, 2010
This one may be a bit of a stretch for a Law & Courts pol sci candidate and certainly having a JD would make it more viable … along with having some French language capability. [H/T Conflict of Laws Net] Filed under: Jeff

US politics in cigars

Posted on February 28, 2010
[H/T Buzzfeed] Filed under: Jeff, politics, Pop Culture

CFP: Social Conflict and Simulation Methods

Posted on February 26, 2010
In the mail: ————————————————————————————————— Call for Papers: Social Conflict and Social Simulation panel at World Congress on Social Simulation ————————————————————————————————— We kindly invite you to submit a paper to the Special Interest Group Social Conflict and Social Simulation (SIG-SCSS) panel at the 2010 World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS)...

Casual Friday: 1.618

Posted on February 26, 2010
Filed under: Andy, Pop Culture

Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity

Posted on February 25, 2010
Hat tip to Rogers Smith on the Law and Courts Listserve: PENN PROGRAM ON DEMOCRACY, CITIZENSHIP, AND CONSTITUTIONALISM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2010-2011 Academic Year Application Deadline: March 19, 2010 The Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism (DCC) invites applications for a one-year DCC Postdoctoral Fellow in any discipline whose research is pertinent to the Program?s 2010-2011 theme, ?Race, Ethnicity, National Minorities, [...

RFA: Rotary Peace Fellows

Posted on February 24, 2010
Free money! Call for Rotary Peace Fellow Applications The Rotary Foundation invites all districts to submit applications for the 2011-12 Rotary Peace Fellowships. complete applications must be sent to the rotary foundation by 1 July 2010. Dear Alumni, In these uncertain times, there is a growing demand for well trained international leaders to promote national and international cooperation and [...

Research position available for PhD, JD, or MA

Posted on February 22, 2010
From the Law and Courts listserve: GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY invites applications for a Research Associate position in the Center for Justice, Law and Society. This is a fixed term, 1-year appointment, not applicable to tenure.  Possibility of renewal. The associate will serve as coordinator of the Center’s federally-funded Wrongful Conviction Project, applying social science methods to understand [...

Trust in government and real income increases

Posted on February 21, 2010
The Monkey Cage has an interesting post on this relationship – here’s an excerpt: Of course the economy is not the only important factor. But it gets far less attention than it deserves when the hand-wringing begins. So, sure, perhaps we can and should tinker with the political process...

Getting elected ? what Google can do for you (or to you)

Posted on February 19, 2010
Want to get elected? Get the power of Google behind you – just ask Scott Brown of Massachusetts.  As elections become increasingly web dependent, Google is poised to be a power player and offers some compelling advantages given its top spot in the search engine marketplace...

Casual Friday: Dntel

Posted on February 18, 2010
Filed under: Andy, Pop Culture

Freakonomics question ? gender and driving

Posted on February 17, 2010
The Freakonomics blog asks the question – why do men always seem to drive when they share the car with a woman? Some interesting comments ensue. For what it’s worth – if I am ever in a car with you (man or woman) and you are not a really, really awful driver, then I am [...

Struggling with professional fees in chapter 11

Posted on February 15, 2010
As I continue to be woefully late on an essay on how to reform the review and awarding of fees to professionals in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases (don’t worry, Maryland J. of Bus. & Tech. Law–it’s coming!), I’m trying to think of other areas in which those who are billing for professional services don’t really [...

Unemployment is Only Part of the Problem

Posted on February 15, 2010
Calculated Risk has an excellent graphic on the unemployment/underemployment/reserve labor force problem by income band. Tell me a story about the political implications of this breakdown. My guess: big loss of seats at midterm. Check out the gradient on intrade’s “Republicans to control the House after 2010 elections” graphic...

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