Legal Humor
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George Mason’s “Antonin Scalia Law School”…
…a wise decision.
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Professor Bainbridge does not approve of the rise of the JD/PhDs
His diatribe is amusing, though for the record I think that anyone who runs a regression on what Rawls thinks should be fired! (Also, Steve, no one is interested anymore in what Dworkin said–that's just a UCLA thing!)
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On a lighter note…
…the quail of West Texas react to the passing of Justice Scalia.
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Has there really been an IRS scandal going on for nearly three years?
Blog Emperor Caron appears to think so, though I'm a bit skeptical about his motives: since the "Instapundit" blog run by the right-wing Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds links to each day's posting about the alleged "scandal," the Blog Emperor has another incentive to keep this "hits" cow going! But what do readers think? We'll…
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The ad is for real
Denmark needs more babies. It's a real ad, though as some of the Danish commenters note, there is some intended humor in it.
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On April Fool’s Day you should visit…
…Legal Theory blog for the latest in "scholarship" from Daniel Farber, William Baude, and no doubt others.
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Kant and evidence law in Bulgaria in the 18th-century
There have been a lot of doom-and-gloom reports about layoffs and collapsing job opportunities for lawyers. As we’ve noted before, the relevant question for valuing legal education is the boost to earnings from the law degree across occupations, not the more specific question of what is happening to lawyers, or even more specifically, big law…
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A sober and impartial analysis of the recent ranking of the “top 50” law faculties…
…from Professor Bainbridge at UCLA.
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Too busy to be funny today…
…but others, fortunately, aren't: see Dan Filler, Jeffrey Harrison, Larry Solum. UPDATE: And Michael Dorf (thanks to Kent McKeever for the pointer).
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Volokh blog to go behind a paywall in six months!
Praise be to Jesus! But, seriously, it seems a surprising decision. Even I will miss reading a couple of those folks now and then (and not simply for head-shaking amusement!).
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Judge Baer vs. Justice Alito
From a Reuters item: A federal judge this week defended his custom of urging lead law firms in class actions to staff the lawsuits with women and minority lawyers, two weeks after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took the unusual step of criticizing the practice…. Alito likened the practice to "court-approved discrimination" and said…
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Stuff faculty appointments commitees say…
…courtesy of Christine Hurt (Illinois). This is pretty funny and apt.
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April Fool’s Day at Legal Theory Blog
Larry Solum always has some very funny parodies. This is my favorite from yesterday's batch. Several years ago, Solum published such a good April Fool's parody of me that for two years afterwards I would get e-mails from overseas asking for copies of the paper!
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…