Academic

Guest post: "The Uses of Revenge, Redux"
A colleague, W. David Ball, wrote me an interesting e-mail that I asked him to tweak into a guest post. Here is what he sent my way: --- The Uses of Revenge, Redux Last week, the ALI voted to withdraw...

Will's "Financial Literacy Lesson" LOL ... Why Factoring Company Sales Reps Strike Out
From the mouths of one of Stone Street Capital's "brightest" "One question we hear rather regularly is what is the difference between a ?structured settlement? and an annuity. A ?structured settlement? is defined as a tax advantaged financial settlement awarded...

Readability Redux | Uncluttered web pages
I've been using Readability for two days now. Oh my! What a difference! Imagine web pages that are crisp and clean and free of distracting flash and ads. Here is a link to my earlier post...

"A Steppingstone for Law's Best and Brightest"
"A Steppingstone for Law's Best and Brightest": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "When a longtime federal prosecutor, Cathy Seibel, was sworn in as a federal judge last month, the onlookers included many former colleagues from the office of the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, in Manhattan, some of whom had gone on to become law professors, defense lawyers and judges themselves...

And This Little Piggy Went to the Supreme Court
By now most people in legal education or practicing law have seen the article in the ABA Journal about Justice Scalia explaining the facts of Supreme Court and academic life to an American University student...

Hasen: Legal Transitions -- Reliance Redux
David Hasen (Michigan) has posted Legal Transitions -- Reliance Redux on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The recent literature on legal transitions is noted for its welfarist approach to the analysis of legal change...