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PrawfsBlawg
PrawfsBlawg
By Professors Dan Markel, Ethan J. Leib, Rob Howse, Paul Horwitz, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Steve Vladeck and Orly Lobel.
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/
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May 25
Is a picture worth 1,000 words in a law school class? My experiment with visual aid
Is a picture worth 1,000 words in a law school class? My experiment with visual aidIn my year-long visit at Yale Law School this Fall and Spring, I felt free to experiment with new teaching ideas. If they fell flat, I have skipped town in just a few months, my reputation (such as it is) intact at my home institution. If it… -
May 25
Curves in the upper level
Curves in the upper levelJessie raises some good issues about the use of curves. I agree with the commenters who argue that grades are inherently comparative and relative, so I am generally good with using curves. I want to ask a slightly different question about… -
May 24
"Sport as Speech" and Non-sport as Speech
"Sport as Speech" and Non-sport as SpeechI just finished reading Sport as Speech, a new paper by Genevieve Lakier (currently a law clerk on the Sixth Circuit); Lakier argues that spectator sports are expressive activities entitled to First Amendment protection (or at least First…
Rank this Week: 21
Discourse.net
Discourse.net
By University of Miami law professor Michael Froomkin. Covers civil liberties, the Internet, Guantanamo, Iraq attrocities, politics and more.
http://www.discourse.net/
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May 24
A Georgian Grandmother’s Take on the TSA
A Georgian Grandmother’s Take on the TSAA student I know writes, My grandmother and I have a unique relationship. We talk about the usual family gossip, but we really get into it when we talk about politics. Why is this unique? Because my grandmother is in … Continue reading… -
May 20
Crawford on Telco Monopolie
Crawford on Telco MonopolieNice profile of Susan Crawford, highlighting her campaign against telco internet monopolies, by David Carr in today’s NYT. A taste of Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future: Susan Crawford, a professor at [Cardozo School of… -
May 17
EFF Is Accepting Bitcoins Again
EFF Is Accepting Bitcoins AgainEFF Will Accept Bitcoins to Support Digital Liberty. This follows a 2-year moratorium. One key difference from past practice: EFF will liquidate any Bitcoins it receives as soon as it gets them. EFF’s announcement pointed me to this…
Rank this Week: 60
JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We…
JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
Edited by University of Miami School of Law Professor Michael Froomkin, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)–JOTWELL–invites law professors to join us in filling a telling gap in legal scholarship by creating a space where legal academics will go to identify, celebrate, and discuss the best new legal scholarship.
http://jotwell.com/
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May 24
Colonial and Postcolonial Constructions of Family Law
Colonial and Postcolonial Constructions of Family LawSylvia Wairimu Kang'ara, Beyond Bed And Bread: Making The African State Through Marriage Law Reform -- Constitutive And Transformative Influences of Anglo-American Legal Thought, 9 Hastings Race & Poverty L. J. 353 (2012),… -
May 22
Provoked Intimate Femicides: A Privatized Version of “Honour”?
Provoked Intimate Femicides: A Privatized Version of “Honour”?Pascale Fournier, Pascal McDougall & Anna R. Dekker, Dishonour, Provocation and Culture: Through the Beholder’s Eye?, 16(2) Can. Crim. L. Rev. 161 (2012), available at the University of Ottawa.Isabel GrantIn their… -
May 20
The Care and Feeding of Sticky Defaults in Information Privacy Law
The Care and Feeding of Sticky Defaults in Information Privacy LawLauren Willis, When Nudges Fail: Slippery Defaults, 80 U. Chi. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2013) available at SSRN.Paul OhmIf Jotwell is meant to surface obscure gems of legal scholarship, which might go unnoticed otherwise, I might be missing…
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