I’ve been traveling recently, and so have been away from posting. One of the enforced virtues of traveling – one of the few virtues of traveling for me these days – is the plane flight with no internet. And if the big guy in front of me reclines his seat, as he always does, I […]
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Private Equity Law Textbook? Desperately Seeking …
I’m late ordering books for my spring class on private equity and venture capital, and am desperately trying to figure out if there might finally be a law school text on this topic. The constraints are the following…. below the fold. (ps. The advice folks gave me on my earlier question re law and econ […]
Law and Robotics Panel at Stanford Law School
By Kenneth Anderson on November 6, 2009 11:15 am in Academia, California, International Human Rights Law, International Law, Robotics, War and Armed Conflict
If you are going to be around Palo Alto next Thursday evening, you might consider attending a panel discussion on robotics and law at Stanford Law School. I’ll be on a panel alongside some very interesting and knowledgeable folks taking up varied aspects of robotics (my particular interest is robotics and war, but the panel […]
Congratulations to Robert Tsai on ‘Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture’
By Kenneth Anderson on November 6, 2009 10:57 am in Academia, Constitutional History, Constitutional Theory, Freedom of Speech, Language
This is coming more than a little late, as the book has been out for a few months, but I wanted belatedly to congratulate my Washington College of Law colleague, Robert Tsai, on his book Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture. I have it on my shelf for night reading, but unfortunately even […]
Textbook Suggestions for IL Law & Econ Elective?
I’ve been asked to step in and teach a 1L elective course on law and economics this spring, covering for a colleague who has taken a high level economics post in the administration. I have to pick a textbook very soon. The course is for second semester 1Ls, and my goal is to attract 1Ls […]
A New Soros Initiative on the Economics Profession?
By Kenneth Anderson on October 30, 2009 1:49 pm in Academia, Economy, Finance, Financial Crisis, Legal Profession, Legal Professor, Regulation
Michael Hersh describes a new $50 million George Soros initative to try and remake the economics profession so to reclaim it from “free market fundamentalists.” The fund will be run by Robert Johnson, formerly a managing director of Soros Fund Management; it hopes to raise $200 million in matching funds. (H/T Instapundit; also Mark N […]
Check that Checkbook:
My recent article “Check that Checkbook: A Guide to Smarter Alumni Giving” which was recently published in National Review is now available online on NR Digital. (At least I think it is–I’m always a bit unclear when NR Digital is generally available and when it isn’t.)
Pretend “Gun-Free” School Zones: A Deadly Legal Fiction
That’s the title of my forthcoming article in the Connecticut Law Review; a revised version is now available. The article suggests that, under Heller, bans on guns at schools are constitutional. However, as a policy matter, gun prohibition on campuses turns them into targets for criminals, particularly mass killers. The response of anti-gun groups is to warn about the dangers of 18-year-olds […]
Paul Caron on Drivers of Law School Cost from GAO Report
Paul Caron, at TaxProf, has posted some executive summary parts and the link to a GAO report on drivers of law school cost as well as minority enrollment. Regarding costs of legal education, the GAO summary says: According to law school officials, the move to a more hands-on, resource-intensive approach to legal education and competition […]
Legal Scholarship in the Internet Age
That was the subject of a recent symposium at Denver University’s law school. The DU Law Review’s online publication, DUProcess, published several short articles on the topic. I wrote on Connecting Laypeople with the Law Through Blogs, and began: “Blogging is creating a Golden Age of legal scholarship. For the first time in the memory of […]
They Judged the Cartoons, but Did Not Read the Book
By Jonathan H. Adler on October 26, 2009 11:24 am in Academia, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
This morning NPR ran a story on Yale University’s decision to force the Yale University Press to remove all depictions of the prophet Muhammed, including several controversial Danish cartoons, from Jytte Klausen’s book The Cartoons that Shook the World. As had already been reported, the University’s decision was based, in part, on various outside experts […]
Professor Volokh, Was Your Job Saved by the Stimulus?
Interesting article in the Financial Times (Thursday, October 22, 2009) by Sarah O’Connor, “Colleges confused over which jobs have been saved by the extra cash.” Marcia Smith, associate vice-chancellor for research administration at UCLA, who leads a UCLA administrative team handling its stimulus awards received guidance from the UC Office of the President saying she […]
Are Books the New Magazines?
According to Tina Brown, they are – in an interview in today’s Financial Times about her website, The Daily Beast. This is an elliptical addition to Eugene’s posts about e-books and new legal book technologies. I’m sure many legal academics, myself included, have wondered how, along the way in the last couple of years, things […]
Merit-Based Pay Cuts for Academics?
George Mason economist Bryan Caplan has an interesting post advocating merit-based pay cuts for academics: Many universities now have pay freezes or even nominal pay cuts. Under the circumstances, several professors have told me that there’s little point in doing faculty evaluations. If there’s zero – or negative – money for raises, why bother saying […]