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How should we teach “business law” to undergraduate students? What topics should we cover and in what order? My colleague (and new friend!) Ralph Flick created a beautiful, color-coded visualization (pictured below) of his business law survey course. As an aside, I am huge fan of visualizations, as my Summer A Syllabus on Tiger King can attest to!

Image Credit: Ralph Flick

If you use a Fitbit or Apple Watch or other similar device to monitor your exercise, diet, or sleep routines, then you already know that those devices generate a lot of data about the state of your health, including weight/body fat percentage, heart rate, blood pressure, and sleep quality. But who owns that data? You? The manufacturer of the device? What about your employer, if you are a pro-athlete, for example? This is precisely the question that my colleagues John Holden and Kimberly Houser pose in their work in progress “Data Trusts, Betting & Biometrics” — my favorite (thus far) paper of the yearly ALSB  conference that I have been attending this week. #ALSB2020

Today is Jamaica Independence Day 🇯🇲, and my youngest daughter Adys Ann turns seven today …

Although his decision to invade Iraq was probably the single-worst decision in our nation’s history, I have to hand it to George W. Bush (a fugitive war criminal), his eulogy for John Lewis was one of the best …

I will be attending the annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) this week. Among other things, I will be presenting my work-in-progess “Breaking Bad Promises” on Monday morning, August 3. (See top screenshot, which is below the fold.) Although I have presented this paper at conferences and workshops before, I will be addressing a new aspect of the “breaking bad problem” (i.e. promises to perform an illegal or immoral act): the relationship between illegal agreements and criminal conspiracy laws. Also, on Tuesday afternoon, August 4, my teaching assistants and I will be presenting our paper titled “Teaching Tiger King.” (See middle screenshot; also below the fold.) In addition, I will be moderating a panel on Friday morning (bottom screenshot) and attending a wide variety of scholarly panels all week … Continue reading →

The Two Italies: how Italians voted in 1946 to choose between Republic (Blue) and Monarchy (Red).

hat tip: u/moltenboron81, via reddit

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will be screening the film noir classic “Double Indemnity” on Saturday night at 10:00 PM Eastern. Need I say more?

It’s the first of the month–time to break out an old hip hop classic. On a more serious note, my university courses are scheduled to begin later this month (on August 24, to be exact), but as of today I have still received no official word from “the powers that be” about the format of my courses. Is college football really the reason why some classes (but which ones?) are going to proceed in person in the fall? Given the recent spike in new Coronavirus cases in the State of Florida, why don’t we just play it safe and go fully online, like we did this summer? College football can wait …