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3 Oct 2007, 6:32 am
IRSPM is the International Research Symposium for Public Management, a good outlet for those of us working on policy implementation and executive politics in a comparative context. [read post]
25 Nov 2007, 4:11 pm
In “The New Politics of Judicial Appointment” David Stras (University of Minnesota School of Law) reviews two interesting books - Supreme Conflict (by Jan Crawford Greenburg) and Confirmation Wars (by Benjamin Wittes). [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 5:11 pm by jly
Tax Prof Blogger Paul Caron posts on an offshoot of moneyball with an analogy to volleyball - asking what measures we might consider in the way of non-traditional sabermetric statistics for academic productivity. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 8:26 am by jly
Eileen Braman Please welcome to the Voir Dire blog, our guest, Professor Eileen Braman. [read post]
6 May 2008, 6:59 am
It seems that there’s been growing concern recently about export controls and strategic national resources (for example, regarding technical information, fissile materials, and even rice). [read post]
13 Dec 2008, 2:03 pm
CAFTA-DR Environmental Law Capacity Building Initiative HED expects to make one (1) award of up to $650,000 for a higher education partnership to strengthen environmental law capacity building in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Nicaragua as part of the U.S. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 6:09 am
USA Today had a short piece on a recent election, here’s an excerpt (hat tip to How Appealing Blog): Over the past decade, state judicial races have frequently degenerated into battles between business interests and the trial lawyers who sue them. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 2:44 pm
December 8, 1886: The AFL is formed in Columbus, Ohio. [read post]
21 Dec 2008, 7:11 pm
          The Theory and Practice of Statutory Interpretation This looks to be a good book for practitioners, scholars, and students. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 7:25 am
Andrew Gelman has reviewed Distinguishing Association from Causation: A Background for Journalists over on his blog. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 6:04 am
In 1800, Congress passed the bill that created the Library of Congress. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 4:27 pm
William Deresiewicz’s article, “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers,” appears in the current issue of The American Scholar. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 11:45 am
Rankings are often interesting and sometimes useful. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 6:53 am
Andrew Gelman has a nice little thread over on his blog about “teaching yourself statistics“. [read post]
30 Nov 2007, 9:57 am
There’s a new political science blog in town - The Monkey Cage. [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 5:17 am
The topic of unnecessary interrupting questions during a presentation (as opposed to clarification questions), eye rolling, loud sighs of exasperation, one upmanship, and generally preferring the mellifluous sound of your own voice to everyone else’s – all five year old child/ pathetic jerk behavior masquerading as evidence of intellectual rigor or academic norms – is [...] [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 7:32 am
David Pozen’s “The Irony of Judicial Elections” is forthcoming at the Columbia Law Review and is available on SSRN here. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 11:26 pm
New from the BJS: Criminal Victimization, 2007. [read post]