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Fact-checking the Duncan Law School Story

09 Jan

In an earlier post, I speculated that it was probably not a coincidance that Duncan Law was featured in a New York Times article by David Segal just before the law school received official notice that the ABA denied its…

 

Publishers Hate Libraries, But We Sort Of Knew That

06 Jan

Techdirt has an interesting article on ebooks called If Libraries Didn’t Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? The article is a reaction to an examination of major publisher attitudes to providing ebooks to libraries as published in…

 

Publishers Hate Libraries, But We Sort Of Knew That

06 Jan

Techdirt has an interesting article on ebooks called If Libraries Didn’t Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? The article is a reaction to an examination of major publisher attitudes to providing ebooks to libraries as published in…

 

Controversy Over the ABA Denying Provisional Accreditation to Duncan Law School

22 Dec

Duncan Law School of Lincoln Memorial University was recently featured in David Segal’s Dec. 17, 2011 NYT article For Law Schools, a Price to Play the A.B.A.’s Way. In fact, the article opened and closed with comments from Duncan Law…

 

Impervious to Change: Happy Law Faculty, ABA Gatekeeper, US News Rankings All Contribute to …

19 Dec

… The Price to Play Its Way, David Segal’s latest NYT article. [JH]

 

Law School Theory Vs. Practical Skills, One More Time

16 Dec

Yale’s own Professor Stanley Fish provided his own response to David Segal’s recent article in the New York Times that berated law schools for not teaching practical legal skills. His lead example is his class on law, liberalism and religion…

 

An eBook Divide

12 Dec

eBooks seem to hog up a lot of space in both the information and legal professional trade presses these days. On pg 12 of the December 2011 Information Today issue, there is an article on “Ebook trends” (the author used…

 

A Bit More On e-Books And Libraries

09 Dec

An article in The Atlantic called Library Wars: Amazon and Publishers Vie for Control of E-Book Rentals by Peter Osnos that examines the publishing world’s paranoia with e-books. They love the idea of selling them at prices comparable to print…

 

Classifying Law Review Article Types

08 Dec

See Kyle Graham’s A Guide to the Eight Most Suspect Types of Law Review Articles on Concurring Opinions. I can’t decide which of the two types, below, is my favorite. The Old-Wine-In-New-Bottles: “No one has evaluated the rule against perpetuities…

 

Bloomberg v Thomson: Playing Risk for World Domination

29 Nov

In The Daily Beast article titled Bloomberg’s Plan for World Domination, Nick Summers profiles media giant Bloomberg (the company) while observing that It’s impossible to talk about the aspirations of Bloomberg the business without addressing Bloomberg the man: it is…