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Hillary Clinton and Covering

Posted on January 11, 2008
While at AALS (sitting through rather familiar papers), I read Kenji Yoshino's Covering. Reviews of the book abound -- and since I'm late to the party, I don't have much to add. Except this: I think the book's insights about the demand to cover and the demand to "flaunt" one's non-white-male identity in public is perfectly on display in Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency...

Men's Abortion Regrets

Posted on January 11, 2008
Here's an odd story in the LA Times about men who grow to regret abortions. Call me cold (and perverse), but I'm more worried about men who can't get abortions and want them.

The Deal Professor

Posted on January 11, 2008
Congrats to Steven Davidoff, who is now the "Deal Professor" over at the NYT's DealBook. Davidoff, a prof at Wayne State, has done a terrific job of covering M&A matters at the M&A Law Prof Blog. At the "Deal Professor" blog, he'll be continuing his coverage of the law of the deal...

Must be Dreaming

Posted on January 11, 2008
Morning! I recently had dinner with a friend who is - as I suspect are many of our readers - 8-9 months away from beginning a tenure-track position as a prawf. She told me that she had her first anxiety dream about teaching a class. She told me this not to elicit sympathy, but to let me know that she had undergone a particular rite of passage marking her transformation from student to teacher...

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