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Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

News about law professors and law schools. By University of Texas School of Law Professor Brian R. Leiter.

http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/
Rank this Week: 582

Teknoids - Supporting the…

Teknoids - Supporting the Unsupported

Teknoids are in legal academia, non-profits, the judiciary, and law firms plus others with interests in this area.

http://www.teknoids.net
  • Dec 7

    The Social Dynamics of the R Core Team

    The Social Dynamics of the R Core Team
    Recently a few members of R Core have indicated that part of what slows down the development of R as a language is that it has become increasingly difficult over the years to achieve consensus among the core developers of the language.…
  • Nov 29

    Chill Pivots — Again!! — This Time To Help Creators Sell Videos Directly To Their Fan

    Chill Pivots — Again!! — This Time To Help Creators Sell Videos Directly To Their Fan
    Turntable for video, err, Pinterest for video, uhhh, video startup Chill is coming out with a new product that it hopes will provide a new channel for independent content creators to sell their videos directly to fans. After the success of…
  • Nov 29

    Intel Capital Leads $5M Round In Spain’s Indisys: Maker Of Machine-Human Interaction Natural Language Virtual Assistant

    Intel Capital Leads $5M Round In Spain’s Indisys: Maker Of Machine-Human Interaction Natural Language Virtual Assistant
    Indisys, a Spanish company founded in 2005 which makes natural language virtual assistants and telephone operators to power 24/7 customer services, has raised a new funding round of $5 million, led by Intel Capital. Inveready Technology…
Rank this Week: 610

Faculty Blog - Faculty of Law,…

Faculty Blog - Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

By Barbara Billingsley, Cameron Hutchison, Daniel Mol, David Cheifetz, Eran Kaplinsky, Eric Adam, Erin Nelson, James Muir, Lewis Klar, Q.C., Mark Amman, Moin A Yahya, Peter Carver, Russ Brown, Steven Penney

http://ualbertalaw.typepad.com/faculty/
  • May 19

    Harvard and Academic Freedom

    Harvard and Academic Freedom
    It is bad enough that Canadian universities are slowly turning their back on the notion of academic freedom, but when Harvard University starts down that path, things are looking bleak for the West's future.
  • May 18

    400 parts per million, or why we're totally F*#%#$

    400 parts per million, or why we're totally F*#%#$
    Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, our most harmful global warming gas, have hit 400 parts per million. It's this kind of rosy news item that Alyssa Battistoni must have borne in mind when she composed one of the best…
  • May 17

    May 2013 Issue of the Toronto Law Journal is Online

    May 2013 Issue of the Toronto Law Journal is Online
    The May issue of the Toronto Law Journal – which publishes pithy comments on recent cases and new legislation of interest to practicing lawyers and legal academics alike – is online here. Commentaries this month cover a new clearing…
Rank this Week: 661

Mass Tort Litigation Blog

Mass Tort Litigation Blog

By Professors Byron Stier and Howard Erichson.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mass_tort_litigation/
  • May 15

    Distributive Justice in Action

    Distributive Justice in Action
    There is a very nice, lauditory article on Kenneth Feinberg in the New York Times today: "One Man Disperses Charity After Tragedy in Boston." The interesting thing about the compensation funds Feinberg is often asked to run are the…
  • May 15

    Distributive Justice in Action

    Distributive Justice in Action
    There is a very nice, lauditory article on Kenneth Feinberg in the New York Times today: "One Man Disperses Charity After Tragedy in Boston." The interesting thing about the compensation funds Feinberg is often asked to run are the…
  • Apr 29

    Engle's Progeny March On

    Engle's Progeny March On
    Earlier this month two tobacco trials with origins in the Florida Supreme Court's affirmation of classwide issue preclusion in Engle resulted in large awards. Searcy v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., M.D. Fla., No. 3:09-cv-13723, verdict rendered…
Rank this Week: 667

Start Making Sense

Start Making Sense

Tax and budget policy by Dan Shaviro

http://danshaviro.blogspot.com/
  • May 13

    Upcoming trip

    Upcoming trip
    Torn ACL or not, the show must go on.  (And anyway I have been cleared to walk and travel.)So on Sunday night I will be flying to Stockholm, Sweden, in order to spend a week there, during which I will guest-lecture at two Stockholm…
  • May 10

    Advance birthday present!

    Advance birthday present!
    Tomorrow is my birthday - I won't say what number, though it is a matter of public record.  But today I got a delightful birthday present, a day in advance.  And yes, my saying so is just snark.Ten days ago I experienced…
  • May 8

    Tax policy colloquium, week 14: Raj Chetty's "Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark"

    Tax policy colloquium, week 14: Raj Chetty's "Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark"
    Earlier this week we completed the 18th (!) annual edition of the NYU Tax Policy Colloquium.  Thanks to my colleague for the semester, Bill Gale, for being great to work with both in general and with our constituencies, the students and…
Rank this Week: 722

Civil Procedure & Federal…

Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog

By Professors Robin Effron, Cynthia L. Fountaine, and Adam Steinman

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/
  • May 17

    Coleman on Hoffman on Civil Rulemaking After Twombly and Iqbal

    Coleman on Hoffman on Civil Rulemaking After Twombly and Iqbal
    Now available on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is an essay by Brooke Coleman (Seattle) entitled Celebrating Civil Rulemaking. It reviews a recent article by Lonny Hoffman (Houston), Rulemaking in the Age of Twombly and Iqbal, which will…
  • May 17

    Meyn on Comparing Civil and Criminal Discovery

    Meyn on Comparing Civil and Criminal Discovery
    Prof. Ion Meyn (Wisconsin) has posted on SSRN a draft of his article Discovery and Darkness: The Information Deficit in Criminal Disputes, which will appear in the Brooklyn Law Review. Here’s the abstract: Scholarship has long recognized a…
  • May 16

    Brescia and Ohanian on the Politics of Procedure

    Brescia and Ohanian on the Politics of Procedure
    Raymond H. Brescia and Edward J. Ohanian, both of Albany Law School, have posted on SSRN their new paper, "The Politics of Procedure: An Empirical Analysis of Motion Practice in Civil Rights Litigation Under the New Plausibility…
Rank this Week: 778

Elder Law Prof Blog

Elder Law Prof Blog

By William Mitchell College of Law Professor Kim Dayton and Associate Professor Carolyn Grose

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/elder_law/
Rank this Week: 779

MediaBerkman

MediaBerkman

Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society Podcast.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman
Rank this Week: 846

Workplace Dignity: Where Dignity…

Workplace Dignity: Where Dignity and Respect in the Workplace Reigns Supreme

Covers employment law, human resources best practices, and how to use alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms to help ensure a happy and productive workforce. By Kendall Isaac.

http://www.workplacedignity.com/employment-law-and-dispute-resolution-blog.html
Rank this Week: 816

ADR Prof Blog

ADR Prof Blog

By Professors Andrea Schneider, Nancy Welsh, Michael Moffitt and Sarah Rudolph Cole.

http://www.indisputably.org
  • May 17

    Schwab removes class action waiver from customer agreement

    Schwab removes class action waiver from customer agreement
    Responding to substantial pressure from regulators and the investing public, the brokerage firm Charles Schwab reversed itself and eliminated the class action waiver clause from its pre-dispute arbitration clause in its customer account…
  • May 12

    Was OJ Simpson’s Lawyer Ineffective?

    Was OJ Simpson’s Lawyer Ineffective?
    OJ Simpson will be back in court this week in Las Vegas bringing an appeal from his 2008 armed robbery and kidnapping conviction in 2008.  He has apparently filed, through his new lawyer, a 94-page petition for a new trial—which…
  • May 10

    If You’re Standing in Front of a Car, You Are In a Poor Negotiating Position

    If You’re Standing in Front of a Car, You Are In a Poor Negotiating Position
    Back in the day Kevin Underhill and I were young associates at large law firms in Kansas City and living the life that only single people with lots of disposable income can.  Now he’s a big time lawyer in San Francisco and has the…
Rank this Week: 868

New York Court Watcher

New York Court Watcher

Covers the United States Supreme Court, the New York Court of Appeals and other federal and state appeals courts. By Professor Vincent Martin Bonventre.

http://www.newyorkcourtwatcher.com/
  • May 14

    Protecting Religious Liberty, Part 2 [presentation]

    Protecting Religious Liberty, Part 2 [presentation]
    This is my attempt at free exercise of religion in a visual nutshell. It's from a presentation I delivered at a recent panel on Protecting Religious Liberty. The event was co-sponsored by several student organizations at Albany Law…
  • May 11

    Protecting Religious Liberty, Part 1 [commentary, interview, and presentation]

    Protecting Religious Liberty, Part 1 [commentary, interview, and presentation]
    [The videocast of a recent interview I did on the topic is linked at the end of the commentary that follows. The power point presentation will be included in Part 2.] The 1st Amendment allows "no law...prohibiting the free…
  • May 11

    Religious Liberty--commentary + [updated 5/12/13]

    Religious Liberty--commentary + [updated 5/12/13]
    Protecting Religious Liberty, Part 1 [commentary, interview, and presentation], May 12, 2013. Catholics, Contraceptives, and 2nd Class Religious Liberty, March 15, 2012. Catholics, Contraceptives, and the (current Supreme Court's)…
Rank this Week: 895

The Legal Satyricon

The Legal Satyricon

Occasionally irreverent thoughts on the law. By Professor Marc J. Randazza.

http://randazza.wordpress.com
  • May 12

    First Amendment vs. Disabilities Act

    First Amendment vs. Disabilities Act
    (From Charles Platt) Is this a real threat, or just posturing? The ADA has already been extended far beyond the areas in which is was first designed to apply. I can certainly imagine regulations compelling web sites to be “equally…
  • May 11

    Jonas Williams: If you are a process server, you damn well better not lie on your service affidavit

    Jonas Williams: If you are a process server, you damn well better not lie on your service affidavit
    This is, in the grand scheme of things, not a very important case. However, to a lot of people, it might be. There was a process server operating in San Diego by the name of Jonas Williams. Instead of actually serving the people he was asked…
  • May 10

    Rakofsky v. The Internet – LINK FIXED

    Rakofsky v. The Internet – LINK FIXED
    The long saga of Rakofsky v. The Internet is over (at least for now). The Order is here. Stay tuned, I’d imagine that there will be an appeal. The order is a bit soft, but the findings of fact are devastating. Filed under: misc
Rank this Week: 894

Law Praxis

Law Praxis

Covers legal theory and practice. By Matthew Parham.

http://lawpraxis.blogspot.com/
Rank this Week: 907

Business Law Prof Blog

Business Law Prof Blog

Covers all aspects of business law. By Eric C. Chaffee, J. Scott Colesanti, Joshua P. Fershee, and Stefan J. Padfield

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/business_law/
  • Jan 14

    About Business Law Prof Blog

    About Business Law Prof Blog
    If you are interested in serving as an editor of Business Law Prof Blog for the Law Professor Blogs Network, please contact Paul Caron and Joe Hodnicki by email.
  • Jan 14

    About Business Law Prof Blog

    About Business Law Prof Blog
    If you are interested in serving as an editor of Business Law Prof Blog for the Law Professor Blogs Network, please contact Paul Caron and Joe Hodnicki by email.
  • Jan 8

    Farewell!

    Farewell!
    Starting tomorrow, Steve Bradford, Eric Chaffee, Josh Fershee, Anne Tucker, and I will no longer be blogging here at the BLPB. It's been a great ride, and I think I speak for all of us when I say "Thank you!"...
Rank this Week: 985

Constitutionalism & Democracy

Constitutionalism & Democracy

A law blog by Albany Law School Professor Stephen Gottlieb and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship James Gathii

http://constitutionalismanddemocracy.wordpress.com/
  • May 14

    What’s up with gun right

    What’s up with gun right
    What’s the NRA’s big attachment to assault weapons? Why do we have to suffer the weapons of mass murder? One NRA member from Texas told an NPR reporter, “As far as I’m concerned, if you can afford to buy a tank, you…
  • May 7

    Trying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

    Trying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
    It seems clear that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev exploded bombs at the Boston Marathon. Although some wanted him tried as an enemy combatant outside of the requirements of the Constitution, the Obama Administration has brought charges in the federal…
  • Apr 30

    A 28th Amendment

    A 28th Amendment
    I got into a discussion about a proposed 28th Amendment to our Constitution a few days ago. Turns out there’s more than one proposal calling itself the 28th Amendment. I’m talking about the one that begins, “The rights…
Rank this Week: 1012

Doorey's Workplace Law Blog

Doorey's Workplace Law Blog

Covers Canadian labour and employment law. By Professor David Doorey.

http://www.yorku.ca/ddoorey/lawblog
  • May 20

    Upcoming Work Law Conference

    Upcoming Work Law Conference
    It’s a busy time for labour and employment law academics. I, like many other scholars in work law and industrial relations, am bogged down right now in preparing papers for upcoming academic conferences.  This means fewer blog…
  • May 9

    My New Academic Papers on Labour Law

    My New Academic Papers on Labour Law
    One thing I do on this website is promote Canadian academic scholarship in labour and employment law.   You can always find links to many of the best academic papers in the field, from Canadian and foreign academics, on this list of SSRN…
  • May 7

    Osgoode Hall Law School’s, “Oh, the Cases You’ll Know”

    Osgoode Hall Law School’s, “Oh, the Cases You’ll Know”
    My favorite children’s poem, with a twist, as read by faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School.  
Rank this Week: 1070

Neuroethics & Law Blog

Neuroethics & Law Blog

An interdisciplinary forum for legal and ethical issues related to the brain and cognition. By University of San Diego School of Law Professor Adam Kolber.

http://kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/
  • May 20

    "Cognitive Enhancement, Rational Choice and Justification"

    "Cognitive Enhancement, Rational Choice and Justification"
    Cognitive Enhancement, Rational Choice and Justification by Veljko Dubljević has been published in the most recent issue of Nueroethics: Abstract This paper examines the claims in the debate on cognitive enhancement in neuroethics that…
  • May 17

    "Treating Yourself as an Object: Self-Objectification and the Ethical Dimensions of Antidepressant Use"

    "Treating Yourself as an Object: Self-Objectification and the Ethical Dimensions of Antidepressant Use"
    Treating Yourself as an Object: Self-Objectification and the Ethical Dimensions of Antidepressant Use by Ginger A. Hoffman has been published in the most recent issue of Neuroethics: Abstract In this paper, I offer one moral reason to eschew…
  • May 15

    "Ideals of Student Excellence and Enhancement"

    "Ideals of Student Excellence and Enhancement"
    Ideals of Student Excellence and Enhancement by Gavin G. Enck has been published in the most recent issue of Nueroethics: Abstract Discussions about the permissibility of students using enhancements in education are often framed by the…
Rank this Week: 1181

madisonian.net

madisonian.net

Coves law, society, and technology. By University of Pittsburgh professor Mike Madison, Loyola University Chicago professor Brett Frischmann and Seton Hall Law professor Frank Pasquale.

http://madisonian.net
  • May 14

    Is a broadcast to everyone private under the Copyright Act?

    Is a broadcast to everyone private under the Copyright Act?
    For the final post in my copyright series, I want to focus on another example in my series of discussions about formalism vs. policy in copyright. Today’s case is WNET v. Aereo, which allowed continued operation of a creative…
  • May 7

    ICANN’s New gTLD Proce

    ICANN’s New gTLD Proce
    In case anyone’s interested, here’s a link to a guest blog post I did for Xconomy’s new Texas site, on ICANN’s new gTLD process.  It’s just a general overview of current issues.
  • May 1

    New ICANN Public Comment

    New ICANN Public Comment
    By the way, if anyone is as obsessed with Internet domain names as I am, ICANN has recently opened calls for public comment on the increasingly difficult challenges they are facing implementing aspects of the new gTLD process.  Two…
Rank this Week: 1132

Stanford Center for Internet and…

Stanford Center for Internet and Society Blogs

Covers civil rights and technological innovation.

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog
  • May 10

    How to Fight Revenge Porn

    How to Fight Revenge Porn
    Cross-posted from The Atlantic Victims of non-consensual pornography, sometimes called "revenge porn," often receive little help from the law. Many who to try to fight the malicious and unconsented sharing of their explicit photos or videos…
  • Apr 30

    Judge Posner’s Surveillance Argument Would Not Withstand An Economic Analysi

    Judge Posner’s Surveillance Argument Would Not Withstand An Economic Analysi
    Judge Richard Posner took the occasion of the Boston bombing to remind us of his view that privacy should lose out to other values.  Privacy, argues Judge Posner, is largely about concealing truths “that, if known, would make it…
  • Apr 29

    Trust us, we're the government - sharing evidence internationally

    Trust us, we're the government - sharing evidence internationally
    Cross-posted from www.katewestmoreland.wordpress.com  It’s the nature of academic articles that by the time they’re published you’ve almost forgotten that you wrote them, particularly if the journal is an annual. …
Rank this Week: 1122

Best Practice for Legal Education

Best Practice for Legal Education

A blawg by Albany Law School Professor Mary Lynch designed to be a useful web-based source of information on current reforms in legal education, and to create a place where people interested in the future of legal education can freely exchange ideas, concerns, and opinions.

http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/
  • May 20

    Law School Clinics and American Law

    Law School Clinics and American Law
    It is fantastic to see clinical work-product being used in court cases; to have clinical briefs being referenced in front of the Supreme Court of the United States shows the impact that effective experiential study can have and the effects…
  • May 18

    Commencing, Saying Goodbye, And “Ditching” C Grades?

    Commencing, Saying Goodbye, And “Ditching” C Grades?
    Yesterday,  I sat on the stage of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) and for the 24th time fondly watched law students traverse the stage, receive their juris doctoris diploma, and begin their post-law school…
  • May 9

    Alternative Law School Ranking: Calculator of Law School Employment Stat

    Alternative Law School Ranking: Calculator of Law School Employment Stat
    The “transparency” of law school employment statistics has been widely criticized and robustly discussed over the past few years,  resulting in changes to ABA accreditation rules and to law schools’…
Rank this Week: 1242

Dissenting Justice

Dissenting Justice

Provides commentary on law, politics and justice. By Professor Darren Hutchinson.

http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/
Rank this Week: 1222

the 13th juror

the 13th juror

Offers comments on social justice issues, news and court decisions. By Florida A&M College of Law Professor Jacqueline Dowd.

http://jackiedowd.blogspot.com/
  • Jan 15

    Drug overdoses overtake AIDS as main cause of homeless death

    Drug overdoses overtake AIDS as main cause of homeless death
    Overdoses of drugs, particularly prescription pain-killers and heroin, have overtaken AIDS to become the leading cause of death of homeless adults, according to a study of homeless residents of Boston. The finding came from a five-year study…
  • Jan 8

    The high cost of poverty: Why the poor pay more

    The high cost of poverty: Why the poor pay more
    You have to be rich to be poor.That's what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don't understand.Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact…
  • Jan 6

    Judge says tent city residents can stay -- for now

    Judge says tent city residents can stay -- for now
    A judge in New Jersey — saying the government has a responsibility to provide for the poor — refused to evict residents from a makeshift camp that township officials claim is a dangerous public nuisance.Since 2006, from 25 to 70 homeless…
Rank this Week: 1231

WordInEdgewise

WordInEdgewise

Covers marriage equality, torts and public health issues. By Professor John G. Culhane.

http://wordinedgewise.org
  • Dec 19

    Will Congress Repeal the Law Barring Suits against Gun Sellers?

    Will Congress Repeal the Law Barring Suits against Gun Sellers?
    In this Slate article, posted earlier this evening, I argue that the 2005 law that banned most suits against gun sellers was a terrible capitulation to the NRA, larding gun manufacturers and dealers with a broad immunity against suit that no…
  • Dec 10

    Does Victory Have A Price?

    Does Victory Have A Price?
    In this Slate article, I argue that the recent success of same-sex marriage at the ballot box might, paradoxically, make it harder for equality advocates to win at the Supreme Court. But I think they should win, anyway.
  • Dec 8

    Analysis of Yesterday’s SCOTUS Decision to Hear Both Defense of Marriage Act and Prop 8 case

    Analysis of Yesterday’s SCOTUS Decision to Hear Both Defense of Marriage Act and Prop 8 case
    Over at The New Civil Rights Movement, I’ve got a piece that ‘splains to layfolk what happened at the Supreme Court yesterday, and what I think it might mean.  
Rank this Week: 1268

Georgetown Law Webcasts and…

Georgetown Law Webcasts and Podcasts

Audio from discussions, lectures and panels at Georgetown Law School.

http://apps.law.georgetown.edu/webcasts/
Rank this Week: 1209

Zeugma

Zeugma

Covers legal education, technology, rhetoric and legal theory. By Lancaster University's Sefton Bloxham, University of Warwick's Patricia McKellar, University of Strathclyde's Karen Barton and Glasgow Graduate School of Law's Paul Maharg.

http://zeugma.typepad.com/zeugma/
  • Jul 18

    Moving on...

    Moving on...
    I'm moving blog host, from Typepad to Wordpress.  I hadn't expected to go, but Typepad's recent newsletters on their company policies are making me edgy and, having been stung, like many academics, by Ning's recent policy changes (Dropbox…
  • May 17

    Ross Priory, 2011

    Ross Priory, 2011
    Spent two days at the invitation of Alan Paterson (Strathclyde) and Richard Susskind discussing legal practice and legal education at Ross Priory, Strathclyde's retreat house on Loch Lomond, which has one of the best views anywhere in…
  • Apr 29

    New book series: Emerging Legal Learning - call for title

    New book series: Emerging Legal Learning - call for title
    Over the past six months or so, amongst much else I've been involved in putting together a couple of book series.
Rank this Week: 1244

Higher Ed Law Prof Blog

Higher Ed Law Prof Blog

By Professors James Ottavio Castagnera and Patrick J. Cihon.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/highered/
  • May 9

    About This Blog

    About This Blog
    The Law Professors Blogs Network is looking for faculty to launch an education law blog. If you would like more information about what this entails, please email Paul Caron at paul.caron@uc.edu
  • May 8

    Event: SHRM Garden State Council Annual Expo - A call for paper

    Event: SHRM Garden State Council Annual Expo - A call for paper
    Dear Jim, Set your compass to join us on November 3rd and 4th for the Garden State Council-SHRM 17th Annual Conference and Exposition at the Ocean Place Resort & Spa in Long Branch, NJ. Our theme this year is: "HR:...
  • May 8

    Law: Affirmative action foe dealt series of setback

    Law: Affirmative action foe dealt series of setback
    It has been a rough week for Timothy P. Asher, executive director of a campaign to get Missouri voters to ban the use of affirmative-action preferences by public colleges and other state and local agencies. On Sunday, Mr. Asher’s…
Rank this Week: 1201

Law School Academic Support Blog

Law School Academic Support Blog

By Rebecca Flanagan and Assistant Dean Amy Jarmon.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/academic_support/
  • May 20

    Article on Texting's Potential Impact on Formal Legal Writing

    Article on Texting's Potential Impact on Formal Legal Writing
    Hat tip to Sue Liemer, one of the Editors for the Legal Writing Prof Blog, for pointing out an interesting article by Lindsey P. Gustafson at the William H. Bowen School of Law - University of Arkansas Little Rock. The...
  • May 15

    Academic and Bar Readiness Counselor Position at LaVerne

    Academic and Bar Readiness Counselor Position at LaVerne
    LaVerne College of Law is seeking a new Academic and Bar Readiness Counselor. See the following link for details: https://laverne.peopleadmin.com/postings/57.
  • May 13

    Salute to Vernellia Randall

    Salute to Vernellia Randall
    Vernellia Randall, a professor at University of Dayton, is one of the well-known names in ASP work. She was among the leaders at the forefront of academic support work when the profession gained traction at law schools. Vernellia is…
Rank this Week: 1290

Banking Law Prof Blog

Banking Law Prof Blog

By Professor Ann Graham.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/banking/
  • Apr 4

    Early Jail Release for Enron's Jeff Skilling?

    Early Jail Release for Enron's Jeff Skilling?
    The Enron collapse in 2001 remains a significant example of greed run amok and corporate governance standards in complete rout. The Enron scandal led directly to passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002. Now the Justice Department…
  • Apr 3

    Pay Corporate Directors Like CEOs - Does "Aligning Incentives" Really Work?

    Pay Corporate Directors Like CEOs - Does "Aligning Incentives" Really Work?
    Is this a new trend -- and is it likely to improve long-term profitability of publicly traded corporations? Or will it create a new compensation "arms race"? Two hedge funds are promising their director nominees compensation tied to…
  • Apr 2

    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - Update

    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - Update
    The Secondary Mortgage Market giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are back to making big profits. A significant question is whether, when, and how to scale back government involvement in the U.S. housing market through these two Government…
Rank this Week: 1350

Split Circuits

Split Circuits

Tracks developments concerning splits among the federal circuit courts. By University of Richmond School of Law Professor A. Benjamin Spencer.

http://splitcircuits.blogspot.com/
Rank this Week: 1342

The Sports Law Professor

The Sports Law Professor

Dedicated to the complete integration of sports and law. By Willamette University College of Law Professor Jeffrey Standen.

http://thesportslawprofessor.blogspot.com/
  • Aug 28

    The Problem with the Red Sox-Dodgers Trade

    The Problem with the Red Sox-Dodgers Trade
    So my favorite team swapped my favorite player (and the team's best) to the Dodgers, along with two other solid players, for a handful of minor league players of various promise. Obviously, in terms of baseball talent, this is a very lopsided…
  • Nov 13

    NBA at the Crossroad

    NBA at the Crossroad
    The NBA and its players appear unable to reach an agreement on the terms and conditions of labor. A number of proposals have been rejected. From available reports, the primary difference appears to center around the division of income. I…
  • Jul 25

    NFL Players Sell the Rookies Short

    NFL Players Sell the Rookies Short
    Although details remain undisclosed, it appears the new NFL/NFLPA collective bargaining agreement will contain a substantial limitation on the terms of rookie salaries, especially at the top of the draft. This development is troublesome to…
Rank this Week: 1335

Products Liability Prof Blog

Products Liability Prof Blog

By William Mitchell College of Law Professor J. David Prince, Professor Michael K. Steenson and Professor Kenneth Ross.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/products_liability/
  • Aug 16

    About Products Liability Prof Blog

    About Products Liability Prof Blog
    If you are interested in serving as an editor of Products Liability Prof Blog for the Law Professor Blogs Network, please contact Paul Caron and Joe Hodnicki by email.
  • Jul 10

    Taking stock of the last 20 years of product liability law

    Taking stock of the last 20 years of product liability law
    The popular Drug and Device Law blog posted a piece yesterday where they reviewed the developments in product liability law for the last few decades and graded them in relation to help to their corporate clients. It is a nice...
  • Jul 2

    GM Product Liability Plaintiffs Better Off Than Secured Creditor

    GM Product Liability Plaintiffs Better Off Than Secured Creditor
    General Motors Corporation has agreed to assume responsibility for all future liability claims filed after the automaker emerges from bankruptcy, regardless of when the vehicle was made. GM had planned to include its product liability claims…
Rank this Week: 1332

Hearsay Culture

Hearsay Culture

KZSU-FM (Stanford) Tech/Law Talk Show. Hosted by Dave Levine.

http://www.hearsayculture.com
Rank this Week: 1408

First Amendment Law Prof Blog

First Amendment Law Prof Blog

By Professors Kathleen A. Bergin and Josie F. Brown.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/firstamendment/
  • Sep 7

    First Amendment Scholarship Update - Speech Topic

    First Amendment Scholarship Update - Speech Topic
    Here is a new collection of recent scholarship on speech topics: 1. Helen L. Norton (University of Colorado School of Law), Secrets, Lies, and Disclosure, 27 Journal of Law & Politics 641 (2012. The abstract states: This symposium essay…
  • Sep 6

    Egyptian State TV Anchor Wears Hijab for First Time in Post-Mubarak Era

    Egyptian State TV Anchor Wears Hijab for First Time in Post-Mubarak Era
    Tuesday was World Hijab Day, and the Christian Science Monitor reports on the ongoing debate among Muslims about when the headscarf should or must be worn. For the first time last week, an announcer on Egyptian state television wore a...
  • Aug 24

    Photojournalists Urge NYPD to Improve Guidance to Officers on First Amendment Obligation

    Photojournalists Urge NYPD to Improve Guidance to Officers on First Amendment Obligation
    Responding to the recent arrest of photographer Robert Stolarik while he worked on an assignment from the New York Times as well as other incidents, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) has asked the NYPD to provide clearer…
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Dean's Blog

Dean's Blog

By Dean Donald Lewis of the Hamline University School of Law.

http://law.hamline.edu/blogs.aspx?blogid=102
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Jurisdynamics

Jurisdynamics

Describes the interplay between legal responses to exogenous change and the law's own endogenous capacity for adaptation. By Louis D. Brandeis Dean Jim Chen.

http://jurisdynamics.blogspot.com/
  • Apr 20

    Portfolio Theory as a Pattern of Timeless Moment

    Portfolio Theory as a Pattern of Timeless Moment
    Jim Chen, Portfolio Theory as a Pattern of Timeless Moments, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2254244: Quantitative finance traces its roots to modern portfolio theory. Despite the deficiencies of modern portfolio theory, mean-variance…
  • Apr 17

    Measuring Market Risk Under Basel II, 2.5, and III: VAR, Stressed VAR, and Expected Shortfall

    Measuring Market Risk Under Basel II, 2.5, and III: VAR, Stressed VAR, and Expected Shortfall
    Jim Chen, Measuring Market Risk Under Basel II, 2.5, and III: VaR, Stressed VaR, and Expected Shortfall, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2252463: Each of the most recent accords of the Basel Committee on Banking Regulation, known as…
  • Jan 7

    CPRBlog: The Long Goodbye: On Seeing the Sundarban Island

    CPRBlog: The Long Goodbye: On Seeing the Sundarban Island
    CPRBlog: The Long Goodbye: On Seeing the Sundarban IslandsThe Ganges River begins at the foot of the Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayas and culminates at the Sundarbans Delta, a massive sprawl of swamps, lakes, and scores of islands. (Find an…
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Native American Law Blog

Native American Law Blog

Covers gaming, jurisdiction, land use, treaties and tribal law. By Professors Timothy Pleasant and Deena DeGenova.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nativeamerican/
  • Apr 16

    Today is the Day - Supreme Court Oral Argument

    Today is the Day - Supreme Court Oral Argument
    Yá'át'ééh! Greetings from the Supreme Court. I'm running on two energy drinks due to my 3:45 am wake up time this morning. Yours truly is seat No. 25 in the public viewing line for the Supreme Court arguments in Adoptive...
  • Apr 12

    Memorial events for 150th Anniversary of Dakota-U.S. War of 1862

    Memorial events for 150th Anniversary of Dakota-U.S. War of 1862
    Was just emailed this to pass along. Questions should be directed to the contact person at the bottom of the posting. -Carolyn Quad Cities – 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the year that Dakota Native Americans from Minnesota were...
  • Apr 12

    Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl Gathering

    Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl Gathering
    If you are in the area, come and join on Tuesday morning. I plan on being there. -Carolyn INDIAN COUNTRY PRAYER GATHERING ON STEPS OF SUPREME COURT TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013 8 a.m. Eastern Indian Country and friends of Indian...
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Anupam Chander Blog

Anupam Chander Blog

Globalization and digitization through the eyes of UC Davis School of Law Professor Anupam Chander.

http://www.chander.com/
  • Mar 4

    Preorder my new book: The Electronic Silk Road

    Preorder my new book: The Electronic Silk Road
    My new book, The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce, will appear in little more than a month from Yale University Press. Amazon is offering the cloth edition for an amazing $18.48! Here are...
  • May 30

    The next generation, smarter than our

    The next generation, smarter than our
    USA Today reports on the winning words in the National Spelling Bee over the last 8 decades.  It's clear that the last decade's students would have found many of the earlier winning words to be child's play. Here is the list, as compiled by…
  • May 17

    My New Paper, Just in Time for IPO: Facebookistan

    My New Paper, Just in Time for IPO: Facebookistan
    Most of Facebook's users lie outside the United States, its home jurisdiction. In a new paper published this week, I examine how Facebook has been regulated across the world. Download here.   Here is the abstract:
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Ruling Imagination: Law and…

Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity

Discusses the ways law rules creativity and law employs creativity. By Professor Peter Friedman.

http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman
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Essentially Contested America

Essentially Contested America

Covers the constitutional, political, and cultural controversies which define the character of America. By Widener University School of Law Professor Robert Justin Lipkin.

http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org
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EvidenceProf Blog

EvidenceProf Blog

By John Marshall Law School Professor Colin Miller, with Contributing Editors and Professors David Leonard, Joelle Moreno, and Myrna Raeder

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/evidenceprof/
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The Antitrust Hotch Potch

The Antitrust Hotch Potch

Offers critical comments on EC competition law and policy. By Professor Damien Geradin and Nicholas Petit.

http://professorgeradin.blogs.com/professor_geradins_weblog/
  • Apr 16

    The General Court partially annulled the Commission's Decision on CISAC

    The General Court partially annulled the Commission's Decision on CISAC
    Last week, the General Court (“GC”) adopted its judgment in the CISAC case whereby it partially annulled the 2008 Commission’s decision. CISAC is an international organisation which represents collecting societies.…
  • Apr 10

    Bank Mergers in Economies Facing Sovereign Debt Crises - NBG/ Eurobank

    Bank Mergers in Economies Facing Sovereign Debt Crises - NBG/ Eurobank
    Over the past year, merger activity in the Greek banking sector picked up significantly. The Greek Competition Authority approved concentrations such as Piraeus/ ATE, Alpha/ Emporiki, and Piraeus/ Geniki. Most recently, a merger between the…
  • Apr 3

    Antitrust Compliance Programmes & Optimal Antitrust Enforcement: A Reply to Wouter Wil

    Antitrust Compliance Programmes & Optimal Antitrust Enforcement: A Reply to Wouter Wil
    Here is the abstract of my new paper: In the inaugural issue of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Mr. Wils published an article discussing the relationship between compliance programmes and competition law enforcement in the EU. This…
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Faculty News

Faculty News

From Duke University School of Law.

http://law.duke.edu/facschol/
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Faculty Blog

Faculty Blog

The Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog

http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/
  • May 20

    Marquette Law Repository Reaches Over 1 Million Downloads Worldwide

    Marquette Law Repository Reaches Over 1 Million Downloads Worldwide
    The law school’s repository, Marquette Law Scholarly Commons, was formally announced on the Faculty Blog on August 8, 2012. Less than a year later, Marquette Law Scholarly Commons celebrates its 1,000,000th download! Researchers from…
  • May 17

    A Call to All Law Students: Enhancing the National Conversation

    A Call to All Law Students: Enhancing the National Conversation
    “I consider you and [Jefferson] as the North and South Poles of the American Revolution. Some talked, some rewrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all.” —Benjamin Rush…
  • May 14

    Clinton, Ryan Do Well in Opening Round of 2016 Presidential Polling for Wisconsin

    Clinton, Ryan Do Well in Opening Round of 2016 Presidential Polling for Wisconsin
    Is it 2016 yet? No, but daily news reports and, even more so, any glimpse into political maneuvering nationwide clearly show that a lot of work is already going into laying groundwork for the next race for president. Marquette Law School Poll…
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The University of Chicago Law…

The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Podcast

Listen to lectures by and discussions with the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School.

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/facultypodcast.rss
  • May 9

    Richard Epstein, "A History of Public Utility Regulation in the Supreme Court"

    Richard Epstein, "A History of Public Utility Regulation in the Supreme Court"
    Rate regulation today is often conceived of as an exotic topic of interest only to a select group of pointy-headed specialists. But the truth is quite the opposite.  The history of rate regulation raises some of the most fundamental…
  • Apr 25

    Justice Albie Sachs, "Same Sex Marriage Decision in South Africa"

    Justice Albie Sachs, "Same Sex Marriage Decision in South Africa"
    Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court of South Africa discussed the Fourie case, gay rights, and the same-sex marriage decision in South Africa. This lecture was recorded on April 9, 2013.
  • Apr 11

    Philip Pettit, "Giving Corporate Agents their Due — and Only their Due"

    Philip Pettit, "Giving Corporate Agents their Due — and Only their Due"
    Suitably organized, corporate groups mimic the capacities of individual persons and operate as agents with minds of their own. And in order to function in this agential manner, they have to be assigned legal rights that they can assert or…
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University of Louisville Law…

University of Louisville Law Faculty Blog

From the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.

http://www.law.louisville.edu/faculty/blogs
  • May 9

    Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Mark Rothstein to Receive the Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award

    Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Mark Rothstein to Receive the Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award
    Patient Privacy Rights, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the privacy of health records, holds an annual Health Privacy Summit each year in June. Last year they started awarding the Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award to…
  • Feb 25

    Peter Scott Campbell's blog: The Mysterious Robert Harlan

    Peter Scott Campbell's blog: The Mysterious Robert Harlan
    I am a little late in writing about this, but I only just discovered it today. Smithsonian Magazine runs a very interesting blog called Past Imperfect, which describes itself as “history with all the interesting bits left in.” In…
  • Dec 9

    Peter Scott Campbell's blog: The Brandeis Family and Madison Indiana Part Two

    Peter Scott Campbell's blog: The Brandeis Family and Madison Indiana Part Two
    In an earlier post I discussed materials I had found in the Jefferson County Historical Society relating to Louis D. Brandeis’ uncle and and his family’s residence in Madison Indiana. I ran out of room before I could discuss what…
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