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Incorporating Non-Profits into the Business Associations Course

Posted on April 20, 2010
Nonprofit organizations employ roughly 10 million Americans (or about 6% of the US workforce) and represent approximately $621 billion in revenues. That said, my quick look through of the TOCs of several business associations/corporations textbooks reveals no coverage of the...

Heathrow Flight Status Visual

Posted on April 20, 2010
So far, unchanged from yesterday. And the day before. And the day before. I literally got the last flight out at the end of last week. By the time my plane landed, the television was full of images of the...

Nuestras Voces Latinas

Posted on April 20, 2010
... a new law blog this year, featuring Ediberto Roman, Lydie Cabrera Pierre-Louis, Leticia Saucedo, Sylvia Lazos, Steven Bender, Steven Ramirez, George A. Martinez, Maria Pabon Lopez, Larry Catá Backer, Berta Esperanza Hernández, Francisco Valdes, and Guadalupe T...

Supreme Court Rules on Depictions of Animal Cruelty

Posted on April 20, 2010
In its opinion issued today in United States v. Stevens, 559 U. S. ____ (2010), the United States Supreme Court ruled that 18 U.S.C. §48 is substantially overbroad, and therefore invalid under the First Amendment. Congress enacted 18 U. S....

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Big Brother Or Legitimate Surveillance? Snooping School Snaps 56,000 Photos

Posted on April 20, 2010
Some of you may have read about the controversy swirling around the Lower Merion School District, on Philadelphia's affluent Main Line. In the last two years, the district decided to issue each and every student his or her own laptop....

Greece Trouble Deepens

Posted on April 20, 2010
WSJ: Greek Debt Crisis Seen Getting Worse: Financial-Aid Needs Could Top $100 Billion, Bundesbank Chief Tells German Lawmakers; Athens Readies T-Bill Offering Business Week: Greece Debt Swaps at Record as Icelandic Ash Smothers Aid Talks The Economist: Greece's sovereign-debt crisis:...

Organ News

Posted on April 20, 2010
Via Al Roth: A living lung donor is running today in the Boston marathon Live kidney donation via twitter and other social networking sites The first kidney exchange in the U.S., and other accounts of early progress And, via my...

What Oral Argument in CLS v. Martinez May Suggest

Posted on April 19, 2010
The first concern of the justices was getting a grip on the facts. The problem results from a stipulation made in the trial court in the context of motions for summary judgment. CLS and Hastings stipulated that the Hastings policy...

Contracts Prof Finds Herself in Real-Life Contracts Hypo

Posted on April 19, 2010
Due to the Icelandic volcano, my friend Prof. Susan Franck(W&L) finds herself living out a contracts problem. During the past semester, Susan has been in Geneva, as a Scholar in Residence at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development....

How Did I Survive Before Facebook?

Posted on April 19, 2010
Back in the days before Facebook, I would never have learned that my high school marching band drum major's daughter's friend's domesticated bobcat had been toilet-trained.

Law School Visitors 2010-11

Posted on April 19, 2010
The list is organized alphabetically by host school. Case Western Reserve: Tawia Ansah (New England School of Law) (Fall 2010) Charleston: Angela Laughlin (Texas Tech) (2010-11) Columbia: Akhil Amar (Yale) (Fall 2010); Jody Kraus (Virginia) (2010-11); Daniel Rodriguez (Texas) (Spring...

New York Times Weddings Go Video. Wish They Hadn't.

Posted on April 19, 2010
Lots of folks who attended school in New York, or the Northeast more generally, periodically read (tense depends on your age) the New York Times wedding pages. These terse announcements offer minimal detail other than biographical information. Mostly, they seem...

Finalists In Ole Miss Law Dean Search

Posted on April 19, 2010
All of us who read the NMissCommentor blog regularly already know this, but this is for the rest of you: the University of Mississippi School of Law seems to have narrowed its dean search down to a lucky three: Fred...

Supreme Court Speculation: Recommended Reading

Posted on April 19, 2010
For those who like to speculate about who the new Supreme Court nominee is likely to be, I would recommend reading Christopher Buckley's novel, Supreme Courtship, which was written in 2008, but possibly resonates even more today. Faced with a...

Judge Diane Wood's Extra-Judicial Writings

Posted on April 19, 2010
I'm recycling a post from last May, dealing with last year's Supreme Court speculation. With all the discussion of the possible nomination of Judge Diane Wood to the Supreme Court, it may be of some interest.... What has Judge Wood...

Two Memorials and a Concert

Posted on April 19, 2010
This was a very full weekend -- with two moving memorials in Chapel Hill. One for a student, Eric Bryant, who passed away earlier this semester. It was held in the ancient chapel here on campus, Gerrard Hall. Tough, to...

The Goldman Complaint

Posted on April 18, 2010
Well, the SEC complaint against Goldman Sachs has thwarted my resolve to refrain from blogging until classes end in a few days in the hopes of actually getting some work done. And, of course, I can?t stand to be the...

Honor Among Thieves? Survivor: Heroes v. Villains and The Prisoner?s Dilemma

Posted on April 17, 2010
Off and on throughout the years, I have followed that germinal TV Reality show, Survivor. I thought it was fascinating initially, then sometime around the fourth or fifth season when it simultaneously jumped the shark and got sexist, I became...

Whig and Democrat Ideology in UNC Literary Addresses

Posted on March 09, 2010
I wrote a couple weeks back about the preponderance of Whigs among the UNC graduation speakers before the Civil War. I'd now like to turn from that quantitative assessment to give a sense of how the speakers' ideologies affected their...

Campbell Law And North Carolina State Link For Joint Degree

Posted on March 09, 2010
Law School is reaping a reward for its recent move to Raleigh, NC. The school has agreed with NC State to develop a joint JD/MPA degree. This is a nice move for both schools - giving Campbell a link to...

Debate on the Ninth Amendment

Posted on March 08, 2010
On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, I will be debating the meaning of the Ninth Amendment with Kurt Lash (Loyola, LA, soon to be Illinois). Kurt has written The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment, in which he takes the position...

To CV? Or Not To CV?

Posted on March 08, 2010
I sent out an article today via the Expresso service. I declined the option to include my CV with the manuscript. I see no legitimate purpose for adding my CV to the materials, and I've said so here. But maybe...

City Hoovers Dildos: Alabama Supreme Court Reaffirms Sex Toy Ban

Posted on March 08, 2010
You have to hand it to the operators of Love Stuff, in Hoover, Alabama. They don't give up easily in their quest to sell dildos and other devices "designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital...

The Ideas of the Extraordinary James Bruce

Posted on March 08, 2010
Thirty-five year old James Bruce came home to the University of North Carolina to deliver an address in June 1841. Bruce had graduated in 1825 and returned to Hallifax County, Virginia to tend to his family's businesses -- as merchants...

The First Law Student Deal Competition

Posted on March 08, 2010
We had an exciting week's end at Drexel Law. My colleague Karl Okamoto organized and pulled off a very cool new project: a transactional lawyering meet. In essence, it was a moot court tournament for students interested in doing deals....

Scan, Baby, Scan

Posted on March 08, 2010
Well, the books.google scan team has finally made it to the University of Virginia -- and I say, not a moment too soon. As I'm working on some footnotes on my antebellum literary address paper (UNC version, of course) I...

Lorne Sossin Named New Dean At Osgoode Hall

Posted on March 08, 2010
Professor Lorne Sossin, of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, will be moving across town to York University's Osgoode Hall Law School to serve as its dean. Sossin, who has a treasure trove of degrees (B.A., McGill, M.A. Exeter,...

For Love Or Money? Defining Relationships in Law and Life

Posted on March 07, 2010
A conference at Wash U, March 26-27, 2010. More information here. Conference abstract: Human life is structured by a variety of relationships, interactions, exchanges, and organizations -- some are complicated, some are simple; some are longstanding, while others are brief;...

Oscar Countdown: Day 0

Posted on March 07, 2010
The Oscarfest is tonight, and we've reached the end of our "Countdown" (which started over thirty days ago!). Many thanks to those of you who played along. A special thanks to my "guests": Kelly Anders, Garrett Levin, Jacqui Lipton, Lance...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Posted on March 06, 2010
For anyone teaching - or interested in - bioethics, property rights in human tissue etc, I can recommend The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which I've just read on recommendation by a number of colleagues. Rebecca Skloot's account of the...

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