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As a child, I used to love visiting the Post Office with my mom. Today, I just discovered that my friend and colleague Hollis Robbins (@anecdotal) is writing a book on the history, literature, and aesthetics of the U.S. Post … Continue reading →

Check out my colleague and friend Brian Frye’s excellent new syllabus for his Intellectual Property Theory course. The focus of his course is not so much on the substance of IP law (black letter law and cases) but rather on … Continue reading →

I have spent most of the last few years writing and revising several business law textbooks, including Business Law and Strategy with Sean Melvin and David Orozco as well as the third and fourth editions of The Legal Environment of … Continue reading →

If you google the phrase “Baptists and bootleggers,” one of the items that will invariably pop up is this entry in Wikipedia (edited by me for clarity; emphasis added; footnotes and hyperlinks omitted): “Bootleggers and Baptists is a concept put … Continue reading →

What the heck? Is it just me, or do you dislike the new default “block” editor setting on WordPress as much as I do?

According to my colleague and friend Steven Lubet (via The Faculty Lounge), although college football coach Nick Saban’s contract does not (I repeat, NOT) include a force majeure clause, “he still stands to lose over $1 million in incentives if … Continue reading →

I still have two full weeks before I have to go back to teaching, so I am making the most of my time by catching up on my readings. Among the many things I have learned is that the great … Continue reading →

Given that most scholarly journals are now published in an online format, does the peer review process still serve a legitimate “quality control” function, or is peer review now all about crude “academic turf protection,” i.e. preventing new voices and new … Continue reading →

Sunday fun-day, right? Below are two of my favorite songs from 2016, when this blog was just three years old. In the Anglo-American world, 2016 was also the year of Brexit and Trump and the amazing year all our asinine … Continue reading →