Academic

How to know when you?re doing it wrong ?

Posted on November 26, 2009
Tim “Four Hour Workweek” Ferris has a great post on this here. The short answer? If you’re pleasing most of the people most of the time, then you’re probably doing it wrong. A great line from the post – “Let the critics criticize...

A Very Special Thanksgiving ?Old Ads?

Posted on November 26, 2009

Facebook Dilemma ? Should we be ?friends? with colleagues?

Posted on November 19, 2009
OK, so I’m a pre-tenure professor lucky to have lots of friends and acquaintances from multiple phases of life including high school, college and grad school. I also have several academic colleagues who I consider friends ? we discuss pop culture along with more serious matter at conferences...

Take on currrent enviornment for judicial nominees

Posted on November 18, 2009
From BreakingLegalnews.com: Controversial court nominee survives Senate test Political and Legal – POSTED: 2009/11/18 06:23 Democrats on Tuesday crushed a Senate filibuster against a controversial appeals court nominee, demonstrating to Republicans they can’t stop President Barack Obama from turning the federal judiciary to the left...

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What role academia?

Posted on November 17, 2009
So building off my comments from yesterday I’d like to raise the issue of what political science research has to say about the legitimacy of judicial institutions, point out an apparent discrepancy in research on different aspects of our legal system, and ask (somewhat provocatively) what our role is as academics in informing the general [...

New wave in Empirical Research on Law and Courts:

Posted on November 16, 2009
First, I would like to thank Jeff for the nice intro and for inviting me to blog this week. Second, you should all know I have not done this before so I am hoping you will bear with me ? I guess we’ll see if any interesting thoughts develop. My work is on legal decision making [...

Introducing guest blogger Eileen Braman

Posted on November 16, 2009
  Please welcome to the Voir Dire blog, our guest, Professor Eileen Braman. Eileen is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. She earned her J.D. at Fordham University School of Law in 1996 and her Ph...

Lesson plans on Ebay?

Posted on November 15, 2009
A NYT article indicates that there is indeed a market for teachers’ lesson plans. Should teachers be allowed to sell lesson plans? Should the schools get a cut? Judging from the number of hits on my webpages to classes I am not currently teaching (I know, I know, I should clean that up and delete [...

Benching the judge-umpire analogy?

Posted on November 15, 2009
Professor Aaron Zelinsky has recently posted “The Justice as Commissioner: Benching the Judge-Umpire Analogy” (forthcoming, Yale Law Journal). Given that this analogy gets tossed around a good bit in Law & Courts and ELS circles, this should be a good conversation starter...

A nice opportunity for law & courts junior candidates?

Posted on November 13, 2009
… if they also have a JD. But, I imagine that at least some of them do. Check out the position at University of Indiana below the fold. KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, INDIANA UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University seeks applicants for tenure-track positions at the rank of [...

Evidence based medicine?

Posted on November 08, 2009
If you can pry yourself away from C-Span and the healthcare debate for a moment, the NYT Magazine has an article this week that addresses, arguably, an even more fundamental aspect of medicine – how it’s performed and how care decisions are made...

Snitch and the Wire

Posted on November 06, 2009
Reason’s Damon Root writes about John McWhorter’s list of books on race that should receive more attention. He highlights a quote about Ethan Brown?s Snitch: If there were no War on Drugs, I sincerely believe that within a single generation, there would be no perceptible ?crisis in black America,? and this book shows much of why [...

FDIC Independence

Posted on November 05, 2009
The Park National shutdown occurred after several Illinois congressmen, including Reps. Bobby Rush and Danny Davis and Sen. Roland Burris, called the FDIC asking it to delay closing the bank for at least a week, said Marilyn Katz, a bank spokeswoman. and Rep...

Pharm Parties

Posted on November 03, 2009
During his immersion in his new job, Gil Kerlikowske attended a focus group of 7-year-old girls and was mystified by their talk about “farm parties.” Then he realized they meant “pharm parties” – sampling pharmaceuticals from their parents’ medicine cabinets...

Upcoming conference at Seton Hall law school

Posted on November 03, 2009
Seton Hall school of law is hosting “Religious Legal Theory: The State of the Field” November 12th – more details here.

Introducing the new US Supreme Court Database Website!

Posted on November 03, 2009
Washington University professor Andrew Martin and his collaborators have recently released their US Supreme Court Database website. It updates, enhances, and streamlines Spaeth’s original data set. This project looks to be a significant development in the field and  a very useful and reliable resource for law and courts scholars interested in studying SCOTUS...

The War on Drugs Book: Full Details

Posted on November 02, 2009
Here.

Another Casualty in the War on Drugs

Posted on November 01, 2009
Professor David Nutt, the British government’s chief drug advisor, has been fired after claiming that ecstasy and LSD are less dangerous than alcohol. Nutt at Bristol and Wiki. Via Huffington Post.

Pug earns MBA

Posted on October 01, 2009
Details on The Monkey Cage Blog here.

On the “Giant Pool of Money”

Posted on September 29, 2009
Check out my post on the world’s “Giant Pool of Money” and the current financial crises on The Faculty Lounge.

Good Advice for New Market Entrants

Posted on September 26, 2009
John Jackson has some nice advice in this quarter’s The Political Methodologist: I suggest to students heading for their first job to write on an index card four institutions where you would be happy to have a tenured position in six years. Select these on the basis of the type of department and university that best [...

Enron Redux

Posted on September 24, 2009
A 2001 paper worth reading from Vince Kaminski and John Martin: And in what may well be a unique feature in corporate America, Enron’s top management today uses its human capital flows to guide its allocations of financial capital. Gotta love hindsight...

Protecting insurance companies ?PSA?

Posted on September 23, 2009
A good ‘public service announcement’ from the folks at “Funny or Die” with a lot of TV faces you might recognize. Somehow it’s kind of funny to see ad executive Don Draper taking a poke at insurance executives – still works though – but doesn’t everything John Hamm seem just a little better? [hat tip [...

Financial Responsibility Tests for Colleges

Posted on September 20, 2009
Yes, we have them. And yes, schools fail them. Lots of seminaries, schools of theology, and Bible colleges on the list. Only one law school, though (or is it a school of theology?).

Coming to a City Near You

Posted on September 19, 2009
Podcars and Skytrans.

Richard Florida on the Geography of Income Change

Posted on September 18, 2009
Richard Florida blogs on the geography of income change. On the other hand, two states saw income losses of 10 percent or more – Vermont (-10.3 percent) and New Jersey (-10.1 percent); and incomes declined by more than five percent in two others – Georgia (-6...

Wolf Blitzer gets owned on Celebrity Jeopardy

Posted on September 17, 2009
A liberal mainstream media? Maybe just a not-so-bright mainstream media. Do you know Andy Richter? He’s the guy who makes the funnies on Conan’s late night show. Final score going into Final Jeopardy?  Andy Richter = $39,000, Wolf “CNN Expert” Blitzer = – $4,600 (actress Dana Delany didn’t fare that well either, but I don’t [...

Update on peer reviewed law reviews

Posted on September 16, 2009
On my Faculty Lounge post.

Better than the Fonz?

Posted on September 15, 2009
The American Statistical Association has t-shirts.  Yes.

More Nudging

Posted on September 14, 2009
The WSJ talks about nudges for making society better (and making money for businesses): Since April 2008, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District has told 35,000 customers in their monthly bills how their energy use compares with neighbors’, and with the district’s most-efficient customers...

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