Academic

Lipshaw on Many Things
The always interesting Jeff Lipshaw has a final post up at Concurring Opinions. It deals with many things, but I was particularly struck by this: [O]ne criticism of law reviews is that they are edited by law students, and because...

Practice Skill Portability
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw As someone who has made a few moderate shifts in career focus, I'm always interested in seeing stories about people who overcome, as they say in behavioral economics, path dependency...

Lipshaw on Law's Illusion
Jeffrey Lipshaw has posted Law's Illusion: Scientific Jurisprudence and the Struggle with Judgment on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Why are there two fairly clear chasms that affect practicing lawyers - one between themselves and their clients, and one between...

Playbook for Institution Building
[posted by Bill Henderson] With all the discussion we have been having on institution building (Henderson, Lipshaw I, Chen, Madison, Caron, Smith, Lipshaw II, and Ribstein), it should not go unnoticed that one of the truly great deans of our...

Lipshaw on Objectivity and Subjectivity in Contract Law
Our compatriot Legal Profession blogger Jeffrey Lipshaw (Suffolk University Law School) has a new piece in the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence titled Objectivity and Subjectivity in Contract Law: A Copernican Response to Professor Shiffrin...

The SSRN Law Academic Career Enhancement Journal: A Proposal
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw As noted earlier, Paul Secunda has a new piece posted on SSRN (see below - he's in 9th place right now, but moving quickly up the charts), a light-hearted look at the lateral market for law...

Walt Disney
alleging a Sikh American applied for a job with Disney but was told he did not have the "Disney look" - apparently referring to his beard and turban, which is required by his religion.