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David Singh Grewal, a law professor at Yale, and Jedediah Purdy, a law professor at Duke, recently posted this critique of law school education on their “Law and Political Economy” blog, using the famous “Coase theorem” as their straw man. In their … Continue reading →

Updated Nov. 15 & 20 (see “Notes” below). We recently presented a “Bayesian defense” of the famous legal rule in Hadley v. Baxendale at the 2017 meeting of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB). (Our talk was based on … Continue reading →

Probably not. The full story is here, via Zach Schonbrun of The N.Y. Times.

Updated Nov. 15: Last weekend, we attended the 2017 meeting of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB) at the renowned Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta, where we presented our Bayesian defense of the rule in Hadley v. … Continue reading →

Also, check out this essay by Scott Stewart, via Stratfor: “Mexico’s cartels will continue to splinter in 2017.”

Apple pays only 1% to 7% tax on overseas income, via “the Paradise Papers” and Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany’s biggest newspaper). File Under: Another example of bogus “corporate social responsibility.” Alternative file under: Another example of why Milton Friedman was right: firms … Continue reading →

Read the full disturbing story (“Something Is Wrong on the Internet”) by James Bridle here (hat tip: digg.com). From a tort law perspective, could YouTube (Google/Alphabet) be legally liable for the troubling videos that are proliferating on the YouTube Kids … Continue reading →