[Jonathan Adler, June 9, 2006 at 3:02pm] Trackbacks
Dean Graber:

He has plans for the University of Maryland School of Law. With your help, he hopes to "completely makeover the law school in [his] 75 minutes of power."

JohnO (mail):
This guy sounds almost Republican, or maybe moderate Democrat. I don't remember there being any of those on the faculty when I went to law school there.
6.9.2006 5:07pm
John Jenkins (mail):
He seems cynical to me; there are lots of those on every faculty.
6.9.2006 5:33pm
John Jenkins (mail):
He seems cynical to me; there are lots of those on every faculty.
6.9.2006 5:33pm
Humble Law Student:
Haha, pretty funny stuff.
6.9.2006 5:33pm
percuriam:
This was absolutely hilarious. As a practitioner, I do believe that law school professors should spend some time in practice. Have you ever tried to explain the nuances of the the latest SCOTUS confrontation clause ruling to a a state court judge in an effort to limit the admission of certain evidence against your client?? While you are at it, be sure to cite a law review article with lots of footnotes.
6.9.2006 7:31pm
frankcross (mail):
In fact, he's quite liberal
But he's a political scientist more than a law professor
6.9.2006 7:38pm
Cornellian (mail):
I guess EV snagged that law firm job just in time to dodge this bullet.
6.10.2006 12:17am
Dave Hardy (mail) (www):
I know that at least one law prof. here knows the way to the courtroom. He was on the receiving end of the only civil mistrial by reason of incompetence of counsel of which I have ever heard. He simply could not ask a question properly. Ask a question -- it was compound. Rephrase it -- it was hearsay. Try again -- it was opinion, witness incompetent. After a couple of days of this the court gave up.

I think he taught trial practice at the time.
6.10.2006 2:32am
Dave Hardy (mail) (www):
While you are at it, be sure to cite a law review article with lots of footnotes.

And be sure to discuss the positions of every jurisdiction, before allowing that there is a dispositive ruling from your own state supreme court....
6.10.2006 2:34am
biu (mail):
[Foreign language spam post deleted.]
6.10.2006 3:25am
Cornellian (mail):
I agree with biu's comment.
6.10.2006 11:50am
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But wasn't that pure dictum?

[Actually, given the repetition of "mp3," I suspect this is a chinese or japanese spam posting, and might best be stricken]
6.10.2006 3:21pm
Fern R (www):
Biu's spam comment is the best one I've ever seen. Is there any less effective technique to draw traffic to a website than posting a link in a language that the majority of those visiting the website cannot read?
6.10.2006 7:28pm
Dave Hardy (mail) (www):
It doesn't matter if blog readers can understand it. The idea behind spam comments is that you want to raise the Google ratings of the website(s) mentioned in the comment. Google uses number of links to a site as a criteria in its ranking, and that determines whether, when someone googles for "viagra" or "medical supplies," which sites show up first and which are on page 11,203.

I've got my own blog set up to reject several thousand websites or key words, and it blocks several hundred comments per day, as I recall. Viagra, cialis, diabetic supplies, ringtones, purses, a thousand forms of porn, online gambling, you name it.
6.10.2006 10:27pm