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CFP: Congress in the classroom

Posted on February 15, 2010
CFP: CONGRESS IN THE CLASSROOM 2010 * Deadline: April 15, 2010 * Congress in the Classroom is a national, award-winning education program now in its 19th year. Developed and sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center, the workshop is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and information on teaching about Congress...

Introducing guest blogger Nancy Rapoport

Posted on February 05, 2010
Please join us in welcoming guest blogger Nancy Rapoport to the Voir Dire Blog. She is the Gordon Silver Professor of Law at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law and was formerly professor and dean of the University of Houston Law Center and the University of Nebraska College of Law...

DIY Tax Auditing Prediction

Posted on February 02, 2010
Via Bargaineering: In 2006, they published a page on the IRS.gov website that details exactly how they determined which tax returns to audit. It comes down to these four main ways (for individuals): Computer Scoring ? I listed this one first because it?s the most interesting of the four reasons...

New Datasets at ICPSR

Posted on February 01, 2010
Of interest to those working in our area: 24641 Annual Survey of Jails: Individual Reporting-Level Data, 2007 26382 National Crime Victimization Survey, 2008 [Record-Type Files] 26521 National Corrections Reporting Program, 2004 [United States] 26601 Impact Evaluation of Youth Crime Watch Programs in Three Florida School Districts, 1997-2007 26602 Census of Jail Facilities, 2006 27002 Firearm Injury Surveillance Study, 1993-2007 [United States] Filed [...

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Cool graphic on the State of the Union Address

Posted on February 01, 2010
Courtesy of the LA Times. [Hat tip to Enik Rising] “You see, it’s about the PEOPLE and the AMERICANS …”  Perhaps I should start issuing a wordle from my lectures – but I’d be afraid that the big words would be “um” and “well”  Filed under: Jeff, Presidency

Scholarly productivity study ? the other schools

Posted on January 31, 2010
While most studies on scholarly productivity of law schools focus on the top 20 or so, a new one examines schools outside of the top 50. Here’s the top 10 of the “out of the top 50″ group, (based on articles in top journals, 1993-2009): 1...

Check out our Social Vibe Widget

Posted on January 30, 2010
On the right — you can do some simple (and free) online activities to help the cause — it just takes a few minutes. Filed under: Uncategorized

Postdoc at WUSTL Law

Posted on January 28, 2010
From Andrew Martin: Washington University School of Law Postdoctoral Fellowship The Center for Empirical Research in the Law (CERL) at the Washington University School of Law is offering a postdoctoral fellowship for scholars with a Ph.D. in political science, economics, psychology, sociology, statistics, or other social sciences...

Which cities have the most depressing local news?

Posted on January 27, 2010
Asylum.com has a pretty interesting listing here. The ‘misery index’ is all about category of story: The substance of the local evening news from the first full week of the New Year (Jan. 4-8, 2010) boiled down to the 10 categories of stories from accidents to crime to weather...

Next Generation Workshop focusing on Environmental, Social and Governance

Posted on January 26, 2010
All expenses paid for selected grad students! The Next Generation ESG Workshop: One-on-one Scholarly Training for Select PhD students – Submissions are due February 28, 2010 Purpose The Next Generation Workshop focusing on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues is a three-day event that will gather together promising young doctoral researchers and world-leading experts in ESG related research [...

CQ custom publishing

Posted on January 25, 2010
It’s here. Bring the entire CQ Press collection to your computer. Browse, search, and read title after title, whenever you want. Be green. Be smart. Be efficient. And be kind to your students’ wallets. e-Comp?why wait to get an examination copy? Get online and you’re a click away from an entire bookshelf of CQ Press books...

Latest data on capital punishment

Posted on January 25, 2010
The BJS tells us: ? In 2008, 37 inmates were executed: 18 in Texas; 4 in Virginia; 3 each in Georgia and South Carolina; 2 each in Florida, Mississippi, Ohio, and Oklahoma; and 1 in Kentucky. ? 36 executions were by lethal injection; 1 by electrocution...

Crime Against People with Disabilities

Posted on January 25, 2010
New findings from BJS: Findings in this report are the first estimates of crime against people with disabilities measured by the NCVS, administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The NCVS adopted questions from the U.S. Census Bureau?s American Community Survey (ACS) to identify respondents who had a disability...

A goodbye to Conan O?Brien

Posted on January 23, 2010
We will miss your late night antics Coco Whatever one might think of the whole situation, I felt that this was a nice farewell speech. Posted in Jeff

Law students as entrepreneurs?

Posted on January 23, 2010
See my post on this idea and legal education on prawfs. Posted in Academia, Jeff, Law

Air America, RIP

Posted on January 22, 2010
Air America files for Chapter 7. What’s the outcome? I doubt much of an impact. The footprint was too small (unless counting satellite radio), and the listener base too mobile to worry about that media source. Of course, this all part of larger and broader themes in communications, including delveraging among larger media [...

My second guest post on Prawfs

Posted on January 03, 2010
Is on the topic of law firm prestige versus online rating systems.

Guest blogging at Prawfs.com

Posted on January 02, 2010
For the month of January I will be guest blogging at Prawfsblawg. You can check out my first post (on data collection and intellectual property) here.

Life at the Top

Posted on December 27, 2009
From PhD Comics: HT O&M.

Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 26, 2009

How the public views Congress

Posted on December 26, 2009
The public’s view of Congress has slipped since 2002, at least with regard to perceptions of honesty and ethical standards. Here’s the trend: Here’s what recent views look like by party – apparently increased bad feelings cross party lines: How do other occupations fare? Check it out below the fold...

Do political independents matter in elections?

Posted on December 22, 2009
Or, perhaps we should ask – how much do they count? On the Monkey Cage Blog, John Sides takes on three claims regarding political independents: 1) Independents are the largest partisan group. 2) Independents are actually independent. 3) Change in the opinions of independents is always consequential...

No more MS Word?

Posted on December 22, 2009
Maybe, at least for a while – apparently they did a no-no. See the story here and an excerpt below: But it’s no joke. In August of this year, a court sided with a small Canadian company called i4i that holds a 1998 patent on the way the XML language is implemented, finding that Microsoft was in [...

The new and improved ?Four Hour Workweek?

Posted on December 16, 2009
Tim Ferris is launching the new expanded and updated version of his hit book “The Four Hour Workweek”. Check out his book launch adventure on his post here.

All new for the holidays! It?s Tenure-Matic

Posted on December 16, 2009
Ok, it’s actually called Tenurometer, but I think that Tenure-Matic rolls off the tongue a little better. Finally, an end to those long meetings and endless files – just plug the relevant information into Tenurometer and you have your decision It’s just a matter of time until Ron Popeil comes out with a better [...

The Year in Ideas

Posted on December 13, 2009
This week’s NYT Magazine has its annual “Year in Ideas” which is, as usual, very interesting. Particularly read-worthy topics this year include (among others): Cognitive illiberalism on the Supreme Court Drunken Ultimatums Guilty Robots Infant Sleep Is Destiny The Myth of the Deficient Older Employee Predictive Smiles Social Networks as Foreign Policy and last, but not least – Zombie Attack Science [...

Some exam advice for law students ?

Posted on December 11, 2009
… can be found in this post on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. Here are some choice excerpts: Rogan Nunn, 3L at UVA and an editor on the Virginia Law Review: By far the most useful thing I did when preparing for 1L exams was to round up a few people from the class and [...

Of moneyball, rankings, and productivity

Posted on December 09, 2009
Tax Prof Blogger Paul Caron posts on an offshoot of moneyball with an analogy to volleyball – asking what measures we might consider in the way of non-traditional sabermetric statistics for academic productivity. While this is interesting, I’m not sure if we’ve even gotten people on board with the value of traditional sabermetric stats for [...

A good criminal law exam question?

Posted on December 03, 2009
The Neuroethics & Law Blog posts on a recently published article by Guglielmo Tamburrini titled “Brain to Computer Communication: Ethical Perspectives on Interaction Models”. The abstract is pasted below the fold, but it brings to mind and interesting question – at least to me – in criminal law...

Greyhounds in need

Posted on November 30, 2009
Greyhound racing is ending in Wisconsin and there are a lot of wonderful dogs who need to be placed. You can check out this situation at Greyhound Pets of America – Wisconsin to see if you’d like to adopt one of these fantastic dogs or make a contribution to their care...

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