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RFA: Eisenhower Academy

Posted on December 18, 2008
Yikes! People pay for this stuff? The 12th annual Eisenhower Academy, a summer institute for teachers, will be held July 12 - 17, 2009 at Gettysburg College and Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg, PA. Sponsored by the National Park Service, Gettysburg College, and Mount St...

Today in Presidential History: Insider Edition

Posted on December 18, 2008
  6.12.1987: Reagan names Ivan Boesky to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. 12.18.1987: Boesky sentenced to prison for insider-trading.       

Data Notes: Criminal Victimization, 2007

Posted on December 17, 2008
New from the BJS: Criminal Victimization, 2007. Presents estimates of rates and levels of personal and property victimization for 2007 and describes the substantial fluctuations in the survey measures of the crime rates from 2005 through 2007. These changes do not appear to be due to changes in the rate of criminal activity during this period, [...

CFP: JPAM on Immigration Policy

Posted on December 17, 2008
Journal of Policy Analysis & Management Call for Papers: Immigration Policy The Journal of Policy Analysis & Management publishes research articles that empirically inform the effectiveness of a wide range of public policies and public management strategies...

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Today in Presidential History: Family Edition

Posted on December 17, 2008
    12.17.1975: Squeaky Fromme sentenced for an assassination attempt on President Ford. Of course, Fromme was a member of the infamous “Manson family”.  Her attempt was the first of two (the second by Sara Jane Moore, another former Manson family member)...

Top 10 Law Firms: Ranking the Firms on Martindale-Hubbell

Posted on December 16, 2008
Not to be confused with DJ Rob’s Top 5 lists in High Fidelity (below), these lists use M-H’s information to provide rankings of law firms on a number of dimensions. Here are the Top 10 US Law Firms by M-H visability (profile views) for November 2008: Rank Top 10 Law Firms: United States Change in Rank Last Month Months on [...

Today in Presidential History: ?I am in control here? Edition

Posted on December 16, 2008
  12.16.1980: Reagan names Alexander Haig as his Secretary of State. At a press conference after the shooting of President Reagan, Alexander Haig uttered the famous phrase, ?As of now, I am in control here in the White House.? It turns out that as Secretary of State Mr...

Hodgepodge

Posted on December 16, 2008
Alcohol and Drugs History Society Kaufrman Foundation gives $10 million for law and economics       

CFP: M@n@gement on ?Sustainable Development Strategy?

Posted on December 16, 2008
M@n@gement is a Tier 2 (out of 4) strategy/management journal categorized by the Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique. The submitted papers will cover the whole field of strategies of sustainable development. The purpose of the following list is just to give an idea of the themes which could possibly be of interest: Voluntary agreements The role investment [...

Today in Presidential History: Disney Edition

Posted on December 15, 2008
  12.15.1966: Walt Disney dies. I’m a big Disney fan, and the Hall of Presidents is one of my all-time favorites.  I go every time I visit.  And I make my kids watch it, too. Disney built the audio-animatronic figure of Abe Lincoln for the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair; the Imagineers built the Hall of Presidents at [...

Data Notes: New At ICPSR

Posted on December 15, 2008
23080 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2005 23081 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2006 23780 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 2006       

Lawyering up ?down under?

Posted on December 15, 2008
A recent issue of Judgment and Decision Making has an article from Australian authors Victoria Gilliland and John Dunn, “Decision making in civil disputes: the effects of legal role, frame, and perceived chance of winning.” Here’s the abstract: The present study investigates the effect of framing and legal role on the propensity to accept a settlement [...

Cabinet Carousel

Posted on December 15, 2008
Play the game!   I matched Mukasey and Holder in 19 seconds.  Bam!       

Electing Judges

Posted on December 15, 2008
More fuel for the fire, by Jim Gibson in the latest Law and Society Review: A new era has emerged in the ways in which candidates for state judicial office campaign. In the past, judicial elections were largely devoid of policy content, with candidates typically touting their judicial experience and other preparation for serving as [...

CFP: Institutions and National Competitiveness

Posted on December 15, 2008
The Korea Institution and Economics Association announces the conference on ?Institutions and National Competitiveness? to be held in Seoul, Korea, on August 17-20, 2009. The official language of the conference will be English. While the theme of the conference is national competitiveness, papers on institutions broadly defined are welcome...

Top ranked law schools - by corruption

Posted on December 14, 2008
On the Concurring Opinions Blog Scott Moss ranks law schools by the number of alumni “who were high public officials convicted, or simply forced to leave office, following criminal or otherwise serious unlawful misconduct they allegedly committed while in office in the 1990s or 2000s...

Today in Presidential History: Father of His Country Edition

Posted on December 14, 2008
12.14.1799: Geo. Washington dies. One for the syllabus: “Death of a President” by D.M. Morens (NEJM, 1999). But on a frigid afternoon, three physicians, gathered around a dying man, were not so optimistic. The man’s wife looked on as he gasped for air, constantly shifting position...

RFP: Higher Education Support for Legal Reforms in Mexico

Posted on December 14, 2008
From Higher Education for Development (HED): Mexico?s Congress recently passed constitutional reforms making it mandatory for all states, the federal district and the federal government to transform their criminal justice system from a mixed inquisitorial into an oral adversarial criminal justice system...

Turnover at the National Archives

Posted on December 13, 2008
So reports Al Kamen: National Archivist Allen Weinstein, who has Parkinson’s disease, has submitted his resignation effective Dec. 19, citing health reasons. Weinstein’s 2005 appointment by President Bush sparked controversy, especially over concerns that he would be an independent archivist...

Why We?re Deleveraging

Posted on December 13, 2008
      

Chronicle Posts Stipend Data

Posted on December 13, 2008
Get yer stipend data here! In a Chronicle survey, 111 institutions responded to questions about the stipends and benefits they provide to teaching and research assistants. The institutions are designated as doctoral/research universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching...

Today in Presidential History: Bush Wins! Edition

Posted on December 13, 2008
12.13.2000: Bush Wins! 36 days later. Shameless self-promotion: “The Presidency and the Supreme Court After Bush v. Gore: Implications for Institutional Legitimacy and Effectiveness” by Yates and Whitford (Stanford Law & Policy Review, 2002)...

RFP: Environmental Law

Posted on December 13, 2008
CAFTA-DR Environmental Law Capacity Building Initiative 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...

Today in Presidential History: DJIA Edition

Posted on December 12, 2008
12.12.1914: the Dow drops 24.39 percent in a single day. Says Woodrow Wilson: nothing (in the official papers, at least). Why? Says Mishkin and White: However, we exclude the 1914-1915 crash because although there is a drop, stock markets were closed from July 31 to to December, 12, 1914, leaving little data for analysis...

The financial crises and teenage employment

Posted on December 12, 2008
The New York Times has an interesting article and the cool graph above on teenage employment. The basic idea is that at times get tough, teenagers go to work. What would have been really interesting is to see some statistics on the type of job that teenagers have relative to their family’s socio-economic status...

The Media and Institutional Change

Posted on December 12, 2008
Political scientists, economists, sociologists, and legal scholars think (and write) a lot about institutional change. Here’s a new spin: We argue that mass media is a mechanism of institutional evolution and identify three important effects media has on institutions...

RFP: Institute for Historical Studies

Posted on December 12, 2008
The Institute for Historical Studies at UT-Austin welcomes applications for one semester and full year residential fellowships from junior, mid-career and senior faculty.  The fellowships provide full salary replacement.  The theme for 2009-10 is Global Borders, and we seek fellows whose work explores the theme in a wide variety of creative ways, conceptual as well as geographical...

Casual Friday: Do You Remember? Edition

Posted on December 12, 2008
Do you remember?       

?We Done Good ??

Posted on December 11, 2008
Excellent. Perhaps the most awkward moment of the evening came early on, courtesy of Clay Johnson, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, who was asked to make a few remarks about McGinniss? tenure. ?I was asked along with 3,000 other people to submit my letter of resignation last week,? he joked at [...

Today in Presidential History: Impeachment Edition

Posted on December 11, 2008
Ten years ago today: an early Christmas present: three articles of impeachment from the House Judiciary Committee, for Bill Clinton. An interesting experiment: Students estimated the chance that President Clinton would be convicted or acquitted in the U...

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