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26 Jul 2010, 10:18 am
I've known Elizabeth Warren (not well) for something like 30 years now. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 12:53 am
Looking for a quick bite before the theatre in London the other night, we blundered into what looked like a promising wine bar. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 11:37 am
I can hear the noise machine wheels begin to turn already as they gear up to din it into us how the Japanese calamity is just one more reason why we have to cut Headstart/NPR etc. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 12:05 pm
I gather it is the practice in combat, after the platoon has undergone an attack, to regroup and count noses, so as to assure that everyone is accounted for. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 5:55 pm
On the towel dispenser in the rest room at Palookaville's finest student joint: [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 9:44 pm
On their own feet they came, or On Shipboard, Camel-back, horse-back, ass-back, mule-back, Old civilizations put to the sword. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 1:53 pm
Here's (what I am told is) a Yom Kippur meditation I just stumbled across: If some messenger were to come to us with the offer that death should be overturned, but with the one inseparable condition, that birth should also cease; if the existing generation were given the chance to live forever, but on the clear understanding that never again would there be a child, or a youth, or first love, never again new persons with new hopes, new ideas, new achievements; ourselves for always and never… [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 7:41 am
...could easily find himself with a cult following. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 5:12 pm
Following up on yesterday's Traviata, I've been dipping into Julian Budder's splendid The Operas of Verdi where, inter alia, I find this nugget: When in the years immediately following its revival which of his operas written to date he considered his best, he is said to have replied: 'Speaking as a professisonal, Rigoletto; speaking as an amateur La Traviata. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 6:57 pm
Mavis asks: Did you say [your mother] used to sing a song about oysters when you would ride in the car? [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 11:05 am
Agency Determination of Fitness Entitled To DeferenceSource: Adjunct Law Prof Blog; Reproduced with permission. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 4:20 am
Beware The Doctrine of Unintended ConsequencesSource: Report from a contributor submitted anonymouslyThe Doctrine of Unintended Consequences is sometimes used to describe the result where all of the potential impact of actions to be taken by an organization are not recognized in the course of its decision-making exercises. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 4:22 am
A lot of effort and expense goes into controlling medical costs in workers' compensation, but savvy vendors seem to always find a way around those controls.The Workers' Compensation Research Institute's latest study on physician dispensed medication reflects this "whack a mole" phenomenon.The conclusion: vendors steer around fee schedule limits with odd-sized dosages that aren't scheduled ... yet. [read post]
7 Jul 2016, 4:44 am
Workers' compensation medicine is often critiqued against general health medicine, the implication that general health does things better.And to an extent that is correct. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 9:11 pm
On July 22-23, 2016, the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht and the Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer will co-host a symposium in honor of Christian Tomuschat on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 3:21 am
Christine Meyer has published Menschenrechte in Afrika: Regionaler Menschenrechtsschutz als Herausforderung an menschenrechtliches Universalitätsdenken (Nomos 2013). [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 2:04 pm
Don't ask me why but the Wichita bureau thinks I need to know about the Bechdel test. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 9:12 pm
Nico Krisch (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals) has posted Capacity and Constraint: Governance Through International and Transnational Law. [read post]
30 May 2014, 5:01 am
Misclassification of workers seems to be at the top of news headlines lately.WorkCompCentral reported this morning that Lowe's Home Centers in California agreed to a $6.5 million settlement of a class action brought by contractors the company hires out to customers to install products it sells.Another story this morning is about an Arizona contractor that settled a misclassification action with the U.S. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 9:54 am
Gurgen Petrossian has published »Staatenverantwortlichkeit für Völkermord«: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ereignisse der Jahre 1915–1923 im Hinblick auf die armenisch-türkischen Beziehungen (Duncker & Humblot 2019). [read post]
