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29 Mar, 2007 8:28 am
Check out part one of this amazing video series from Adam Curits called "The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream Of Freedom." It combines great imagery with provocative theories on
how the language of "freedom" and "choice" have actually been used to control citizens of the US, UK, and around the world instead of liberate them. More info on the series here.
(Thanks Hugh!)
24 Dec, 2007 6:14 am
Pelican has decided to abandon his efforts to scale the walls of the legal academy and proposes this simple eight-step program for others who would follow in his footsteps: Don't do
interdisciplinary work. The legal academy doesn't know what to make of it unless it is economics. Don't go to a school without a law review or grades. I did and it was a huge problem.
Get on law review, clerk, write. Check the faculty listings at most law schools. Go to the most often listed schools: Harvard, Yale, ...
9 Jan, 2008 8:06 am
Thanks to Adam Reyer, SVP of Business Develpment at XM Radio for giving me a couple of his digital media predictions for 2008 and beyond. I will continue with a couple of
additional predictions from others over the next week. 1. Internet video on TV finally makes headway Now that home networks and HDTVs are commonplace in the living room, people are
actually going to start watching internet video on the big screen. The driving factors will be: Content: It isn't bad watching, say, Abbott & ...
17 Apr, 2007 12:14 am
... it's comments. We want people like Brian T, Bobby Reiff, Jason Grey, Phil R, Abe Laeser, Judge Pinero, Judge Glick, and many others ... of
our colleagues also know that in 1771, before our nation declared independence, Adams successfully represented 8 British soldiers in Boston,
who were accused of murder when they fired ... most popular of cases- defending soldiers of an occupying army who killed citizens of Boston. Yet, Adams took on the case and six of eight were acquitted, and the other two were ...
6 Oct, 2007 2:43 pm
... from engaging in sexual intercourse with students enrolled in the school system in which the teacher is employed. McKenzie-Adams argued
that the statute was unconstitutional because it because it violated his right to privacy under both the federal ... consensual sexual intercourse with individuals over the age of
consent. The Connecticut Supreme Court rejected McKenzie-Adams's argument, holding that in "light of the disparity of power inherent in the
teacher-student relationship … both victims ...
2 Oct, 2008 7:33 am
NO-FAULT - ATTORNEY MISCONDUCT - DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS Matter of Edward Shapiro Matter of Jason Adam Moroff (2nd Dept., decided
9/16/2008) In per curiam opinions dated September 16, 2008, the Second Department suspended Nassau County no-fault attorneys Edward Shapiro and Jason Moroff from the practice of law for a period of six months effective October 16, 2008, with leave to apply for reinstatement at the end of ...
27 May, 2008 5:31 am
... those who wrote letters were: • Leonard Barrack, founding partner of Barrack, Rodos & Bacine • Fred T. Isquith and Adam Levitt, partners at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman
& Herz • Stanley Bernstein, founding partner of Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz • Kenneth L. Adams, partner at Dickstein Shapiro •
Richard Revesz, dean of the New York University School of Law, where Weiss endowed the loan repayment assistance program • Stephen Susman, ...
25 Sep, 2008 8:02 am
... . Adaptive Flexibility Panelists John M. Darley Dorman T. Warren Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Princeton University Adam J. Kolber Associate Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law; Visiting Associate Professor of Law Brooklyn ... Academic Affairs Brooklyn Law School Discussant Joshua Knobe Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Moderator Jason Mazzone Associate Professor of Law Brooklyn Law School 1:00 pm Lunch 2:00 pm How
Universal ...
1 Nov, 2008 4:49 pm
(Editor's Note: This post is based on a client memorandum by Adam Emmerich, Mark Gordon, Sabastian V. Niles, Shaun J. Mathew, and Jason
M. Williams from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.) With the explosion in natural resource prices and trade surpluses, the corresponding increase in the size and investing profile of
sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), and the unprecedented stress on the global financial system, SWFs have faced ...
3 Feb, 2007 8:16 am
... Heesen came to Chapel Hill on Thursday and presented "The State of Venture Capital." Unfortunately, I couldn't make it, but CED was nice enough to send me a copy of the presentation
to post here Download heesen_nc_ced_2007_02_01_2.ppt . Thanks Adam. In the presentation, Mark covers: - fundraising & resources - the North Carolina scence - the exit update
- performance numbers Also, the News & Observer did an interview with Mark in advance of his visit to NC. Hope everyone is having a ...
11 May, 2007 11:36 am
via the ACLU: WASHINGTON, DC -The American Civil Liberties Union today cheered an amendment to the House Intelligence Reauthorization Bill that would prevent illegal domestic
wiretapping by the government. The amendment, by Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), will reaffirm the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) as the
only legal means of collecting electronic intelligence surveillance. The amendment was passed late last night by a vote of 245-178. "Congress has ...
20 Sep, 2007 7:27 am
Jason Riis (NYU, Business), Joseph P. Simmons (Yale, Management), and Geoffrey P. Goodwin (Princeton, Psychology) have posted Preferences for
Psychological Enhancements: The Reluctance to Enhance Fundamental Traits to SSRN. Here is the abstract: Four studies examined young healthy individuals' willingness to take drugs
intended to enhance various social, emotional, and cognitive abilities. We found that people were much more reluctant to enhance traits believed to be highly fundamental to the ...
14 Jan, 2008 12:29 am
... to a Mac based practice. The use of all programs will be demonstrated in a step by step form - bring your MacBook and work along with the speaker - Topics will include: The
Electronic Trial Notebook / File Organization - Circus Ponies Notebook. [Jason Adams - creator of
Circus Ponies is planning to attend! - Worth the trip by itself!] Adobe Acrobat the less paper practice (there is no such thing as paperless) , scanning, ...
7 May, 2008 10:20 am
... re Miranda) The prosecutors in the 1982 case include L.A. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito, O.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick Horn and assistant Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Curtis
Hazell. The Supreme Court ruled that the prosecutors probably affected the outcome of Adam Miranda's case by not telling defense lawyers that five witnesses believed another man,
Joe Saucedo, was guilty of the stabbing death Robert Hosey in 1980. One witness claimed Saucedo confessed to the murder while they were in jail. ...
9 Jun, 2008 1:42 pm
... Jean LeBlanc works on financing transactions of all kinds, including commercial loan transactions, restructurings and workouts. He has been lead counsel for agents, lenders, venture
capitalists and borrowers in connection with senior and subordinated loans and other financing transactions. Adam Spiegel focuses on commercial finance, particularly structuring,
negotiating and documenting secured and unsecured financing transactions, workouts and restructurings and debtor-in-possession financings.
31 Jul, 2008 8:41 pm
... (here). The three judges rejected the counties' claim that the state's Medical Marijuana Program Act conflicted with the federal Controlled Substance Act and the the ID card
provisions in the state law are invalid, according to the Press-Enterprise. "The ruling is a stinging rebuke to the misguided attempt of a few rogue counties to undermine the will of
California's voters and the well being of thousands of sick and dying patients," said a victorious ACLU attorney Adam Wolf in a press release.
16 Sep, 2008 1:29 am
(and disregards the rest) Jonah Lehrer reports the result of a depressing but unsurprising experiment: The Facts Don't Matter. Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler provided two groups of volunteers with the Bush administration's prewar claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. One group was given a
refutation - the comprehensive 2004 Duelfer report that concluded that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction before the United States invaded in 2003. Thirty-four ...
21 Jan 8:02 am
January 21, 2009 - by Matt Driscoll "Jason Morische is a true man of action. When he isn't busy putting away the bad guys in court, he's taking
it to them on the battlefield. Raised in Bracebridge, Morische is a criminal defence lawyer in Toronto and an officer with the Canadian Forces. 'My common joke is that I defend the
constitution and the charter in two different ways,' quipped Morische last week on his way to trial. The 37-year-old is currently preparing to take part in a mission to ...
30 Jan 2:53 pm
... membership" view if former President Bush had possessed unilateral authority to create a guest worker program. At the Law & Politics Workshop on Tuesday, Professor Cristina
Rodríguez presented a paper she co-authored with Professor Adam Cox examining the division of authority between Congress and the President in immigration law and how it
contributes to the dysfunction of our immigration system. The conventional wisdom is that Congress exercises almost all of the power over core immigration ...
13 Dec, 2006 7:17 pm
... Cantor, Sam Cao, Linda Cappuccio, Britt Carlile, Tirzah Carpio, Josh Carrico, Jason Cash, Jim Cashion, Chris Casson, Robert Castillo,
Stephanie Casto, Rachelle V Catalano, ... Fleming, Patrick Fleming, Charles Flohn, Mike Flores, Harry Florio, Whitney Fogt, Adam Foley, Elizabeth Foley, Michael Fontana, Susan
Forbes, Linda Ford, David Foster, ... Higgins, John Hildwein, Larry Hill, Serena Hill, Doug Hilts, Mark Hilts, Jason Hinkley, Wayne Hinson,
Matt Hoban, Paula Maggiore Hoerner, Garey Hoffman, Ron ...
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