Brian’s emphasis on crosstown rivalries of Columbia/NYU and Chicago/NW Law provides a good way to illustrate my point. As Brian notes, the rivalry between Columbia and crosstown upstart NYU played itself out in the form of head-to-head competition for faculty and students. The two schools are now, arguably, in equipoise. Dean (now NYU President) […]
Randy Barnett argued in Friday’s Wall Street Journal* that
District of Columbia v. Heller teaches the importance of interpretive philosophy or method in judicial decision-making and the importance of selecting judges who have the right interpretive
philosophy.
Barnett said:
Justice Scalia’s opinion is the finest example of what is
now called "original public meaning" jurisprudence ever adopted by the Supreme
Court. […]
June 24, 2008
MEMORANDUM
Re: Poster Presentation at 2009 AALS
Annual Meeting
You are invited to
submit a proposal of a poster presentation for the 2009 AALS Annual Meeting in
San Diego, California (January 6-10, 2009).
Please send your
proposal by e-mail to sections@aals.org by September 30, 2008. The poster
should state your name, the name of your law school, the […]
The blogosphere is abuzz with the announcement of NWU’s 2-Year JD (Paul Caron collects relevant links ; the W$J Law Blog also has ). There is a lot of reaction to the program, especially in the comments at Above the Law, but not much analysis. So I thought I would fill the void. Moreover, this […]
Today’s Supreme Court decision in the Exxon case relies
heavily upon the empirical literature to punitive damages to evaluate the availability
and scope of punitive damage awards under maritime law. See footnote 13 (citing several studies shows
that punitive damages were on the rise between the 1960s and 1990s but
acknowledging more recent research, including Eisenberg, Heise, et al., […]
The were published yesterday by Thompson Reuters.
The Impact Factor of Molecular Systems Biology for 2007 is 9.954
This represents a substantial increase over last year’s Impact Factor (see chart) and we would like to warmly thank all our authors and reviewers who have contributed to this success. We will continue to work very hard to […]
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Honestly, when I received Arjun’s email, I thought the blog would be just another boring, stale-template website. It’s anything but that!
Here are a few articles that caught my eye.
- Arjun tells us how to abandon MS Word for those crazy papers you have to write.
Student kitchen essentials - You’ve got to eat, […]
Lynne Kiesling
The Leroy Coolbreeze Fund honors the memory of Ian Copeland, a legendary music agent and bon vivant who brought great joy to many people throughout his too-short life. Along with his brothers Stewart (best known as the drummer in The Police) and Miles (who, among other things, managed The Police and founded IRS Records), […]
