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• Yet Another Law School Ranking

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  Given the source — AbovetheLaw.com — I would have been prepared to dismiss it out of hand. But Brian Leiter, who is a very discerning consumer of rankings, says that that the “ATL Top 50” is “not nuts and contains some useful information”. Coming from him, that is [...]

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• Britt Blaser Wins ‘Law Day’

  The attempted rebranding of May Day as ‘Law Day‘ by anti-communist Cold War legislators never took off. I think the idea of a ‘Law Day’ isn’t bad (although isn’t every day law day?), but as a piece of counter-programming it has always been both too half-hearted and rather tone-deaf.

  But [...]

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• On ‘squishes’

  Reading about Sen. Cruz calling other Republicans ‘squishes’ because they were not, at least in his telling, as hard-line as he is, reminded me of when I lived in the UK and the late Margret Thatcher and her supporters derided their less-immoderate fellow Tories as the “wets”.

  It also [...]

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• In Which I Join the EPIC Advisory Board

  EPIC has announced the 2013 members of the EPIC Advisory Board. They are Michael Froomkin, Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law; Sheila Kaplan, student privacy advocate and founder of Education New York; Eugene Spafford, a/k/a/ “Spaf,” professor of Computer Science at [...]

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• Almost As Strange as Fiction

  The discovery of a new, more solid, superionic phase of water, made me think of Kurt Vonnegut, who in his novel Cat’s Cradle imagined an ultimately deadly state of water he called ice-nine, which was solid at room temperature. Fortunately the real stuff requires vastly greater temperature and pressure [...]

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• TEDxMIA MIA?

  The TEDxMIA website doesn’t seem to have been updated since early 2012.

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• No UM Food Workers’ Strike After All?

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  I was working up a long post on the looming food workers strike against Chartwells, which operates the food court and dining areas at UMiami, but it looks as if there may not be one. Responding, undoubtedly, to pressure from the U, Chartwells has agreed to the workers’ demand [...]

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• Couldn’t Resist

  A request for a correction in The New York Times:

  Article Headline: Rewinding History, Bush Museum Lets You Decide

  Date Published: 4/21/13, Print (National Edition, p. A1)

  Phrase in Question: “As president, he rarely had a chance to rest….”

  Your Concern (please limit to 300 words):

  In the page A10 continuation of the [...]

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• Sartre’s Little Helper

  University of British Columbia researchers have found a new potential use for the over-the-counter pain drug Tylenol. Typically known to relieve physical pain, the study suggests the drug may also reduce the psychological effects of fear and anxiety over the human condition, or existential dread.

  – Science News Anxious About [...]

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• Quick Trip to Philadelphia

  Tomorrow I’m going to Philadelphia so that I can give a talk at U.Penn law on Wednesday. I’m going to do something very uncharacteristic and present a true work in (early) progress rather than something rather more baked which is my usual practice.

  I do have a different, near-finished, paper, [...]

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