Archive | September, 2004

A group of about 90 former Supreme Court clerks (along with some prominent practitioners) have signed a statement about the recent Vanity Fair article on Bush v. Gore. An excerpt from the statement:   [T]hese breaches of each clerk’s duty of confidentiality to his or her appointing justice — and to the Court as an institution […]

Paul Berman in Slate rightly condemns the popular cult of Che Guevara.

Last week, I blogged about a Republican political mailing whose “cover shows a Bible with the word ‘BANNED’ across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word ‘ALLOWED.’ The mailing tells West Virginians to ‘vote Republican to protect our families’ and […]

Slate‘s Explainer points out that more American Indians actually prefer the term “American Indian” to “Native American.” Both, I think, are fine, but this further shows that “American Indian” isn’t offensive or outdated, as some suggest. (That a group prefers term A over term B isn’t a sufficient condition to show that term B is […]

My colleague Stephen Bainbridge, of ProfessorBainbridge.com, has started a new blog devoted just to wine and food, ProfessorBainbridgeOnWine.com. Check it out.

Last week, I posted about some of the AALS statistics on law teaching jobs. I noted that those statistics suggest that women have a slightly higher rate of success than men in getting law teaching jobs; although women make up only about 35-40% of the faculty candidates, they tend to land about 45% of the […]

to my blogosphere challenge from earlier today. So far I have about a dozen responses, and they’re great. But I want more, many more. So keep sending me your links to orinkerr at yahoo.com. I’ll probably post links to the first set of responses later today, but it depends in part on how many I […]

I got two messages agreeing with some music recommendations made here many months ago, so I thought I’d pass them along, in case others can likewise profit from them: I just wanted to thank you for an old music recommendation you posted a year and a half ago — Lucinda Williams’ “World Without Tears”. I’ve […]

The working paper of my article “An Economic Analysis of the Consumer Bankruptcy Crisis” is now available on-line through SSRN, and it currently remains under submission and consideration by law reviews. Given the tidal wave of consumer bankruptcies in recent years, the time is ripe for a reconsideration of the prevailing model of consumer bankruptcy. […]

A year and a half have now passed since the invasion of Iraq. If you read the papers these days, the news coming from Iraq seems awfully depressing. The country is suffering about 70 hostile attacks a day, and 900 U.S. soldiers have died since the declared end of the hostilities — a rate of […]

Is it just me, or does this sound (only to lawyers, of course) like something out of an alternate universe legal system? Should it be followed by, say, an Action to Quiet Seismic Title, or an Order to Show Magma? Thanks to InstaPundit for the pointer.

It’s too early to tell if these arrests will amount to anything, but if they’re legit it’s quite a story. The CIA and FBI may have a hard time catching terrorists, but at least the tabloid newspaper News of the World appears up to the job.

be sure to check out posts here, here, and here from Wisconsin lawprof Gordon Smith. Smith is the appointments committee chair at Wisconsin this year, and offers his own perspective on how schools select faculty candidates.

Eric Muller finds some interesting bumper stickers.

A David Broder column in today’s Washington Post mourns the decline of journalistic standards and emphasis on accuracy in the modern media business. Given Broder’s track record of sloppiness and bending the truth to score his own political points, however, his complaints seem somewhat misplaced. Broder writes today: Time was when any outfit such as […]