September 2011
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Vihvelin blog
Philosopher Kadri Vihvelin (USC) has a blog on free will issues here. Interesting stuff.
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This bird is pressing its luck
This is one of the funnier cat videos (in this case, cat and bird) I've seen.
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Liu Confirmed to California High Court
Berkeley Law Professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to the California Supreme Court was confirmed yesterday by a three member Commission on Judicial Appointments. Liu, a Rhodes Scholar and former Ginsburg clerk, joined the Berkeley faculty in 2003. His nomination to the Ninth Circuit by President Obama was blocked by Republicans and he withdrew in late May…
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Law & Economics, and Elite Law Schools
This paper by Hersch & Viscusi at Vanderbilt is pretty openly a brief for their PhD program in law and economics at Vanderbilt, but it contains some interesting data and clearly confirms what should be familiar: namely, that strength in law and economics is essential to "elite" status in the modern legal academy. Some excerpts:…
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…