December 2006
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Has the Blogging Phenomenon Peaked?
The growing number of "abandoned" law blogs would seem to suggest so, as Peter Spiro (Temple) discusses.
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Why the Sudden Rush to Execute Saddam? (Leiter)
Here is an hypothesis, hopefully mistaken. UPDATE (Dec 30): The U.S. and Saddam, a useful overview here. (JAN 2: But on the CIA and Saddam in the early 1960s, see also this.) ANOTHER: Also timely. AND ONE MORE: Thoughts on the execution.
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Freshman from Miami to Hastings
Clark Freshman (alternative dispute resolution) at the University of Miami Law School has accepted a senior offer from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was a visiting professor in 2006.
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Biblical Stories Told Via Lego Blocks (Leiter)
Via The Virtua Stoa, I discover this rather charming website in which Biblical stories are illustrated with lego figures and scenes. Having been with the kids to Legoland in California last summer, I knew there was a lot you could do with legos, but this is a new one! Although I’m sure this was not…
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Three Finalists for Duke Law Deanship
Via Blog Emperor Caron, I learn of this article which claims there are three finalists for the Duke Law Deanship: Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke), Judge David Levi (N.D. Cal.), and Kyle Logue (Michigan). (Judge Levi is the son of former A.G., Chicago Dean and President Edward Levi.)
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Arendt Reconsidered (Leiter)
This is an interesting and what seems to me appropriately critical assessment of Hannah Arendt and the currently booming academic Arendt industry by political theorist Corey Robin from Brooklyn College and the City University of New York; an excerpt: Perhaps it was inevitable, then, that the centenary of Arendt’s birth should have devolved into a…
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Wilson from Maryland to Washington & Lee
Robin Wilson (family law, health law) at the University of Maryland has accepted a senior offer from the law school at Washington & Lee University, where she is a visiting professor this year.
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Happy baby Jesus’s birthday (Wilson)
In the last years, and in the nature of the case, we’ve usually been the bearers of bad news; but alongside the many problems, the world is full of cool, interesting and/or (benignly) weird stuff. Hence we invite you to occasionally visit off the record to share a bit of what we come across. Happy…
I’m a software engineer who works at “AI adjacent” startups, and I think this article is a bit dramatic, but…