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Should the third year of law school be optional?
Why does it take three years to get a law degree? Why don’t law schools do their students a favor by dropping the third year altogether, or at least making it entirely optional? Bonus link: Teach blogging in law school?
How long did the gunfight at the O.K. Corral last?
And how many rounds were fired? According to Wikipedia, about 30 rounds were fired in 30 seconds during the famous gun battle at the O.K. Corral. Here is more: Despite its name, the gunfight actually occurred in a narrow lot six … Continue reading
Why did Jeff Bezos buy The Washington Post?
After buying out the Graham family–the old owners of The Washington Post–for $250 million, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos formally took control of The Post on 1 October 2013, but why? (a) because he wants to revitalize the newspaper … Continue reading
Prosecution Bias?
Originally posted on Cheap Talk:
Why are conditional probabilities so rarely used in court, and sometimes even prohibited? Here’s one more good reason: prosecution bias. Suppose that a piece of evidence X is correlated with guilt. The prosecutor might say,…
Why are law reviews so dull, tedious, and boring?
Adam Liptak’s recent report in the New York Times on “lackluster law reviews” is fun to read and highly recommended. Here is an excerpt: Law reviews are not really meant to be read. They mostly exist as a way for … Continue reading
Should “revenge porn” be a crime or a tort?
Or neither? The State of California recently created a new misdemeanor offense–that of posting identifiable nude photographs of another person online without his or her permission, but only when such public postings are done with the intent to cause emotional distress or … Continue reading
“If you’re never wrong …
… you’re never interesting.” –Felix Salmon
“Beam me up Scotty”
Who said that? According to this pithy report by Karl Smallwood, Captain Kirk never uttered these precise words in the original Star Trek series. Captain Kirk comes close, however, on several occasions. For example, he says “Scotty, beam us up, … Continue reading
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This is what hypocrisy looks like
The NY Times recently interviewed legendary college football coach and ESPN analyst Lou Holtz on a wide range of topics relating to college football. Check out this particular exchange from the interview: NY Times Question: Are there too many [college football] … Continue reading
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Tagged College Football, Hypocrisy, Lou Holtz, Markets, Player Salaries
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“Gödel’s Loophole”
That is the title of this paper which revisits the legendary story of Kurt Gödel‘s purported discovery of a deep logical flaw in the US Constitution on the eve of his citizenship examination in December 1947. But what was this flaw? No one … Continue reading
