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Class No. 2 (Sources of Law)
In our first business law class this semester (BUL3130), we introduced our students to the movie “The Social Network” (see preview below) and to the real-life protoganists in our semester-long case study on the origins and growth of Facebook: hacker … Continue reading
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What are the most important unsolved problems in law?
Hola! This intriguing post by our blogging colleague and philosophical friend Tyler Cowen (asking about unsolved problems in economics) got us thinking about unsolved problems in the domain of law. But does it make any sense to talk about soluble … Continue reading
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Zuckerberg for President?
Happy MLK Day! Check out this well-reasoned conjecture by Nick Bilton explaining the origins and logic of Facebook inventor and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s worldly ambitions. Here is just one excerpt from Mr Bilton’s intriguing essay: “Facebook would not be Zuckerberg’s … Continue reading
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Christmas break reading
This is what we were reading over the holidays: 1. Ernest Hemingway, A moveable feast. We returned to Hemingway’s Paris memoir. (Overall, this was our third reading of Hemingway’s vignettes of his early years in Paris.) Two details struck us … Continue reading
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Professor Obama?
Update (1/22): Steve Kolowich speculates here on whether Mr Obama could get a teaching job at a top U.S. law school given his thin (and fraudulent, we would add; see below) publication record. (Hat tip: Paul Caron, via TaxProfBlog.) Via … Continue reading
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p-hacking primer
Via io9, John Bohannon explains how fake science works, specifically, the problem of “p-hacking”:
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Actuarial table of Trump’s justices
Last year, Donald Trump released a shortlist of conservative jurists he said he would consider as possible U.S. Supreme Court replacements for the late great Justice Antonin Scalia. Recently, our friend, colleague, and fellow blogger Josh Blackman (of seven-screen fame) compiled the somewhat morbid table below calculating the … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Mr Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was born on this day (1/11) in the British West Indies.
Stardate 4299 A.D., Planet Newgarth
As we mentioned in our previous post, we will be presenting our work in progress on “probabilistic interpretation” at this year’s Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference. Since the conference is in San Francisco, our talk will make reference to the … Continue reading
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prior probability 