In a recent New York Times think piece, Vocationalism, Academic Freedom and Tenure, Stanley Fish writes: In her new book, “The Faculty Lounges: and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For,” Naomi Schaefer Riley brings…
Posts Tagged ‘New’
A New Genre: ISP Data Cap Policy Killed My Internet
25
Jul
In Data Caps Are Screwing Things Up, Public Knowledge blogger Michael Weinberg writes “[t]he story of Andre Vrignaud may well end up being the template for the soon-to-be-popular genre of ‘I just hit my data cap and now I cannot…
Friday Fun: Congress Debates New American Dreams
22
Jul
Live: Congress Debates New Sex-Based American Dreams
Friday Fun: New Oklahoma Law Allows Doctors to Perform Fake Abortions
15
Jul
Doctors in Oklahoma will now be able to act like they’ve just given a woman an abortion and send her on her way. Of course, the Onion News Network is highlighting by way of humor a very serious and concerted…
WSJ: Law Schools Increasing Skills Training
11
Jul
Could it be that the new competition among law schools would be teaching lawyering skills? The Wall Street Journal is describing efforts by a number of different schools in that direction. New York Law School, for example, is hiring 15…
New Academic Law Library Directorship Appointments: Vicki Szymczak (Hawaii) and Teresa Stanton (Florida International)
11
Jul
Vicki Szmczak, Library Director at Brooklyn Law (and long-time LLB contributing editor) has accepted a faculty appointment at the Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, and will serve as the Law School’s library director. Vicki will be making the…
The Value of Production Editors for Fact-Checking: Weissenberger and McFarland’s New Edition of The Law of Premises Liability
05
Jul
I admit, here’s an instance where I like a publisher’s format switcheroo. Lexis has converted the latest edition of The Law of Premises Liability from annual pocket-part supplementation to the loose-leaf format. OK, I’m very old school when it comes…
Exposing Oneself in Public Not Good Enough Reason for Firing Professor
01
Jul
A University of New Hampshire professor admitted exposing himself to a mother and her teenage daughter in a grocery store parking lot but an arbitrator ruled that the University could not terminate his employment. Under the University’s “moral delinquencies of…
And Yet Another New Tax Target: The Cloud
30
Jun
And while we’re on the subject of a new income tax revenue stream for the states see Joe’s post below, consider a recent report in the BNA Computer Technology Law Report (12 CTLR 312) that examines the possibility inevitability of…
A New Income Tax Revenue Stream? Bill Introduced to Legalize Online Poker
30
Jun
Actually it would legalize online poker if allowed in your state. HR 2366 [Open Congress] would establish a program for state licensing for Internet poker companies for winning (and losing) real money. What the heck, wouldn’t that be a “good…
