A major accident occurs. People are injured. How does the government respond? Police squads arrive. Paramedics arrive. The State Bar arrives to discourage lawyers from chasing the ambulances. (Thanks to the Legal Ethics blog for the tip).
AP article on how states are regulating new hunting technologies. The lead item from the story: a website where hunters can control and fire a 30.06 by point-and-click. The article quotes Kirby Brown, executive director of the Texas Wildlife Association,…
This is the fifth of a five part series on law teaching as a career, which was prompted by an email interview I had with a reporter. See Parts I, II, III and IV. Next week, I will discuss some…
Professor Steven Lubet raises some provocative questions about law school exams. After recounting a story about how Chinese students chose to deal with a closed-book exam through brute force memorization (despite professor entreaties not to do so), Lubet asks the…
The Computer Law Association, in association with the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, is holding its annual writing competition to recognize papers on information technology law topics. Papers need to be sent by April 30, 2005 and received by May…
Another critique of the annualcreditreports.com site with some warnings about scams and misleading site text. My earlier post. (Thanks to Politech for the reference).
This is the fourth of a five-part series on law teaching as a career, prompted by an email interview I had with a reporter. See Parts I, II and III. 4) What should students do to prepare themselves for a…
This is the third of five posts on the topic of law teaching careers, prompted by an email interview I had with a reporter. See Parts I and II. 3) Are the publish or perish pressures worse than in firms?…
Today is the first day Midwesterners can get their free credit reports from https://www.annualcreditreport.com/. Generally, I think this is a terrific idea. Credit reports have a significant impact on us and it’s always fascinating to see what they remember. Credit…
This is the second of a five part series of posts about law teaching careers. See Part I. This series was instigated by an email interview I had on the subject. Today, I deal with the second of the reporter’s…