Law Students

How To Announce Your (Positive) Tenure Decision

Posted on April 07, 2008
Brian Donovan is so awesome. His book looks very interesting, too.Heck, I'd do this just for landing a tenure-track job! Maybe with slightly less fanfare. Maybe with only one squad of cheerleaders. I have to learn some cool moves though, like Brian's...

What's New With You?

Posted on April 07, 2008
Me:1. Still way behind in dissertation work. What else is new? But I went to my first baseball game of the season. Gotta have priorities.2. Writing two potentially publishable Law and Society-angled papers this semester. One is a review essay on organizational culture and leave policies...

Briefest Movie Reviews From Me Ever

Posted on April 07, 2008
I've seen a few movies recently, none of them super memorable:1. 16 Blocks: Corrupt cop Bruce Willis tries to transport protected witness Mos Def to the courthouse to deliver testimony against other corrupt cops, showing that people can change. I love Mos Def, but he acts like he has a mild case of Tourette's here...

What's On Your Amazon.com Wish List?

Posted on April 04, 2008
Content Analysis does a content analysis of prominent sociologists' public Amazon.com wishlists, finding, soberly:From the first Wish Lists or two, I thought I might stumble onto some fascinating insight into the intellectual interests of prominent sociologists...

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Gender and Organizations Reading List

Posted on April 04, 2008
But a small selection: Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic Books. Jacobs, Jerry. 1989. Revolving Doors: Sex Segregation and Women?s Careers. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Hochschild, Arlie Russell...

New Resources on Women in the Workplace

Posted on April 03, 2008
I'm doing research for my review essay, that better damn well be published in an L&S journal because it might be the first publishable thing I write on my fave topic. I totally owe Laura Beth Nielsen an email, in hopes that she'll give me a free copy of her very expensive book and advice on making this publishable...

In Which I Provoke You and Invite You To Disagree

Posted on April 02, 2008
I returned from break on Monday night, and have been really busy since. So in lieu of one of my long essay posts (two of which are in draft form right now!), a couple of de-contextualized, un-nuanced statements to stir the pot and get some comments/protests of violent disagreement:I am often intellectually/artistically elitist, but I feel bad about how judgmental I can be based on my subjective values, even though I think there exist objective standards of value...

Why Moral Universalism is a Good Thing, pt. 90276009246x10^847 (sorry Daniel)

Posted on April 01, 2008
a.k.a. "Okin was right pt. 90276009246x10^847: Multiculturalism really is bad for women.(Subtitle: Venezuelan man assaults woman for declaring feminism, declares feminism form of U.S. "colonialism.")(h/t Amber)Edit: Nor is this particularly an issue about "foreign" cultures: among the cultures, whose advocates claim it is deserving of protection, that leads to violence against women is U...

While I'm plugging other blogs...

Posted on April 01, 2008
Everyone should read my [internet-] friend Helen's blog. It's hilarious and mad and 100% New York City, in the least annoyingly obnoxious possible way that one can be 100% New York City. Also, cooking with math, and multiple deep and worryingly comical connections between fashion and Nazi Germany.

A really smart idea from some logician.

Posted on April 01, 2008
From some blogger called "infinite injury" (whose blog I've never seen before, and which seems to be pretty random), the following extremely good idea:Instead of those individuals with the best defenses taking them trial we see just the opposite happening in the RIAA cases...

The Dismal Science, in a couple of lines.

Posted on March 31, 2008
From the freakonomics people's nytimes interview with a couple of prostitutes (h/t: Amber): Q: If men pay by the hour, they would want to consume as many acts per hour as possible. How do sex workers feel about this?MINDY: I?m trying to be delicate with my answer: this usually doesn?t happen...

Specialization is for Insects: Why Don't I Follow International Law Anymore?

Posted on March 31, 2008
I just saw the new Prime Minister of Australia speak at the Brookings Institution today. It was a really interesting talk, mostly about economic and strategic cooperation between Australia and America, and the pressing need for Western countries to really "understand" and engage directly with rising economic/political/global powers of China, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Asian region more broadly...

Summer Funding

Posted on March 29, 2008
Filed Under Real Life Grad School Tales, alternate title Grad School Reality--It Sucks, So Keep Your Day Job: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a grad student who is not fully funded is cheated by his or her institution, and should not go to that grad school...

Dear Republicans, Credit Card Industry Goons, Democrats Who Voted for the Bankruptcy Bill, etc.: I Told You So.

Posted on March 29, 2008
I've been railing against both the credit card industry and the bankruptcy "reform" act for years now. Here's, in relevant part, what I said in March 2005 (in a blog comment, along with a variety of less temperate things): Third, how about abusive practices as to consumers as well as to the democracy? The fact that the credit card companies DELIBERATELY TARGET THE FINANCIALLY UNSOPHISTICATED -- as can be seen most dramatically by setting foot on most any college campus (especially large state universities) about the start of the academic year, when they sucker college freshmen into signing up for these cards, on no income or credit history, and get them mired in debt right from the start -- gives them no claim to any moral high ground...

I Wish I Could Quit You, or The Book That Got Away

Posted on March 28, 2008
I borrowed about 20 books or so from TD, pillaging his shelves and absconding with printed treasures. Yes, I talk this florid and purple prosey in real life--and only occasionally is it adorable, although I'd hope that it was adorable all of the time...

Stuff "Everyone" Should Know

Posted on March 28, 2008
This is a post intended to provoke comments. Consider this your personal invitation.I was talking to TD tonight, which is awesome as always. TD does financial analysis and consulting (mainly project finance) for a company in some industry in some part of the country...

Making Chemistry Relevant to Grrrls

Posted on March 27, 2008
Alternate title: Young Female Scientists Expose the Truth of the Beauty Industrial Complex. That is way too charitable. I am going with: How to make chemistry more relevant to girls, because mixing cool stuff that explodes or Mentos + Diet Coke is not enough, here's a gem from the NYT:Along with 10 other girls chewing over rumors of ingredients like skunk oil and pulverized fish scales, the two had traveled with parents in tow to the Museum of Science here three weeks ago to attend a Saturday seminar called Cosmetic Chemistry...

The Many Ways That Child Abuse is Still Legal.

Posted on March 27, 2008
Warping the minds of your children with lies about science: child abuse.* Exposing your children to cult-like thought control: child abuse.Refusing to protect your children (or the public) from disease because you can't do math or, big surprise, because you think some spook in the sky said so: child abuse...

Random Stuff Because I Am A Personal Blogger/Raging Narcissist.

Posted on March 27, 2008
1. Reading review essays on subjects in which you have no interest merely to get the idea of format and structure is really boring. Sigh. Well, how else are you supposed to learn. When I am done, and if this is accepted to publication, I am writing a template formula for review essays and posting it on Scatterplot...

Unfortunately, it's not illegal to be just a jerk and a bully

Posted on March 25, 2008
In the workplace, under Title VII, workplaces of over 15 employees can't hate/discriminate on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion; under the ADA workplaces of over 15 employees can't hate/discriminate on the basis of disability; and under the ADEA workplaces of over 20 employees can't hate/discriminate on the basis of age...

Lenny Dykstra's "Scholarship Kid"

Posted on March 24, 2008
According to my New Yorker, Lenny Dykstra's kid, Cutter, will attend UCLA in the fall on a baseball scholarship. Lenny Dykstra is richer than God. UCLA is a public university, and in California, one of the two premier public universities for California residents...

Open Thread Day

Posted on March 24, 2008
I am on vacation. Open thread day!Honestly, I got nothin'. All I've done for the past few days is eat, sleep, read Henning Mankell, play with a puppy and watch Major Barbara (which I must say is one of the funniest, wittiest, shrewdest plays about war and morality, topping All My Sons)...

TMI

Posted on March 24, 2008
I don't quite know what to make of this. My first instinct is to delete every social networking account before I go on the market, and come back with a nothing profile and re-find all of my real friends, or else give up entirely on this social networking thing:There was a time when professors did not outrank music premieres on television...

Law and Social Science Damns Me to Heck

Posted on March 21, 2008
As Huck Finn says, "well then, I'll be damned!"I occasionally worry that I'm veering too far off the doctrinal path into the murky shadows of social science. This is scary because I am not properly trained in social science. And yet, I persist. Why? You have to do what you want, and I am just not good enough at gaming the meat market in order to want to do that...

Lost In the City

Posted on March 21, 2008
This is a picture of my foot, outside the Library of Congress (taken by accident of course), circa spring break, 2007. That pretty bag is full of law review articles, and those stylish shoes barely ventured out of the library. Who says that the life of a legal academic isn't glamorous?I really loved this collection of short stories, set in and around D...

Family/Life

Posted on March 21, 2008
I'm scrambling to get work done, catch a train, get to the airport, and figure I'll sleep for the first time in three days on the plane, but I can't go without at least putting up a link to Olderwoman's amazing personal essay on family/life and caring for her mother...

For Those of You Interested in the Bear Stearns' Debacle

Posted on March 20, 2008
In terms of FAR interests, I have greater interests (and ability) to teach Contracts or Civ Pro (and probably more Contracts), but I really loved Corporations in law school. Yes, me, who was That Annoyingly Sanctimonious Progressive Girl in law school...

Advise Belle: Laptop Shopping

Posted on March 20, 2008
I am looking to buy an ultraportable laptop, under 3 lbs, max 4 lbs. I need to be more portable when I start fieldwork and dissertatin', even though I am going to take bunches of classes next year too. Right now I have a 17", 8 lb clunker that hurts my back, so I leave it at home and try to use school computers or gasp! write by hand...

Tablet Notebook vs. Regular UltraPortable

Posted on March 20, 2008
Okay, now I'm thinking of getting this Thinkpad X-series Tablet PC.Can you give me reasons for choosing a Tablet over a regular laptop? Will this thing break off the hinge or something? Will I actually be able to write notes and is this a useful utility? Why are tablets better? Will they rock my world? Also, I need my laptop to last at least 3+ years...

Shamus Khan is Human, and He Rocks

Posted on March 20, 2008
Shakha at Scatterplot writes an open letter to academics:In short, what lots of folks tell me is they are happy when we seem like actual humans, and not simply people who are huddled up in an academic monastery. Therefore, let me publicly affirm what I have been privately conveying to others...

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