FIRE is also mentioned in today’s Mallard Fillmore comic strip, including noting that FIRE’s “Guide to Free Speech on Campus” can be obtained free by students. According to the comic strip (that’s a phrase I never thought I would write) FIRE’s book discusses student’s free speech rights, campus speech codes, and how students can fight […]
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Humility and Free Speech on Campus:
FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff observes: [At] the core of the philosophy of free speech is a very beautiful idea: humility. None of us is omniscient and we must at all times recognize that wisdom can arise from unexpected sources…. Professors who remember that their students present a constant opportunity for them to learn and are not […]
SSRN Top 50 Authors:
SSRN has just posted the list of the top 50 Law Authors as measured by downloads, and yours truly has eked onto the list, along with a couple of co-conspirators. Note that if you click around, you can order the rankings in a variety of different ways–the order given below is of total downloads for […]
Understanding The Bankruptcy Reform Legislation:
The American Bankruptcy Institute has a special section of its web page set up to track the progress of the Bankruptcy Reform Legislation and to explain its terms. ABI Resident Scholar Jeffrey Morris is contributing some of the content (I reckon when he signed up for this gig he was expecting a nice quiet semester […]
The Fairness Doctrine:
The reference to the application of election laws to blogs in Larry Ribstein’s Table of Contents reminds me of a funny thing I saw just the other day, and the silliness of trying to restrain speech. I was watching an old Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight on ESPN Classic, and the announcer was interviewing Ali after […]
The Shiavo Complaint
filed today in federal court has been posted here. The gist of the complaint seems to be an argument that the federal constitution required the appointment of a person to represent Terri’s rights directly, and that the state procedures violated the Constitution by allowing the state trial judge to act as a “health-care surrogate.” I’m […]
Dartmouth Bloggers:
One of the fun and gratifying parts of the Dartmouth experience has been to find out all the Dartmouth bloggers who are out there. As many are aware, Powerline, Hugh Hewitt, and others have been following the story. But equally delightful has been reading the dialogue and discussion among current students and recent alumni who […]
San Diego Union-Tribune Op Ed:
Last Thursday, the San Diego Union-Tribune ran my op ed “Reforming Bankruptcy Laws: Changes Will Help Everyone”. You can read it here. The conclusion: Balanced, practical bankruptcy reform is not going to prevent honest, unfortunate debtors from getting the fresh start they need and deserve, but it will make it tougher for those who game […]
Bankruptcy in the Blogosphere:
Two interesting commentaries on the Bankruptcy Reform legislation by Eric Rasmusen and Tom Veal addressing some of the key arguments for and against reform.
Blackstone’s Commentaries:
This is pretty cool, at least for the serious legal geeks among the VC readership: the full text of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England is available online. UPDATE: While I’m on the topic, there are lots of other classic legal texts available online. Examples include Benjamin Cardozo’s The Nature of the Judicial Process, […]
Asset Protection Trusts and Bankruptcy:
If anyone has any actual examples of bankruptcy debtors using “asset protection trusts” to shield large amounts of assets in bankruptcy, and bankruptcy courts allowing them to do it, I would appreciate the cites to the cases. I have looked, and so far I have heard plenty of hypotheticals, but no actual cases. Moreover, I […]
“Something About Larry”:
Harvard senior Brian Goldsmith offers his take about the Lawrence Summers controversy in the Harvard Crimson: Let’s be clear about one thing: 218 Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors (out of 690) secretly voted lack-of-confidence in Larry Summers because they think he’s a schmuck.
Academicbias.com:
I have been meaning to post on the interesting project going on at Academicbias.com and now I’m finally getting around to it. This is project of Evan Coyne-Maloney (of brain-terminal.com fame) and others. He is doing a feature film on speech codes and political correctness on campus, with interviews directly from the protagonists in the […]
More on Student Opposition to Alabama Faculty’s Speech Code Resolution:
Student column in the University of Alabama Student Newspaper on the Faculty’s Speech Code resolution: While their collective heart may have been in the right place, the collective mind of the UA Faculty Senate certainly was not when they passed their resolution. They should exercise academic leadership and admit they made a mistake, then rescind […]
Great Roundup on Bankruptcy Reform Issues:
Just One Minute provides a terrifically thorough and comprehensive roundup of issues and coverage of the bankruptcy reform legislation in “Cracks in the Facade.” Note especially the excellent discussion of the supposed “growing problem” of “asset protection trusts” that all of a sudden is supposedly a major bankruptcy crisis.