Even though we see her having sex with a 15-year-old boy. Q : Do you ever have any trepidations about approaching controversial material like abortion in "Revolutionary Road" or statutory rape? Winslet: I'm so so…
"... the former is vaguely inspired by the idea of the latter." Sasha Volokh disses Madison in the comments to a Volokh Conspiracy post by Judge Paul Cassell . The post is about whether it's ethical for a judge to …
Eugene Volokh has more on the AutoAdmit case, noting the risks plaintiffs take when they sue. First, the lawsuit calls more attention to the scurrilous comments. Eugene notes, though, it's unlikely anyone hearing the AutoAdm…
WSJ Law Blog has the story: In the latest chapter of the AutoAdmit.com scandal, two female Yale Law School students have sued Anthony Ciolli, the Web site’s former “chief educational director,” and more than two dozen others who …
Boston Globe reports: As Ivy League-educated pediatrician Robert P. Lindeman sat on the stand in Suffolk Superior Court this month, defending himself in a malpractice suit involving the death of a 12-year-old patient, the opposin…
Oops! (Thanks to Eric Muller for pointing this one out to me.) Well, now, how bad is this one? It's not "nappy-headed hos" bad. It's not "macaca" bad. Of course, there's always the old "it…
David Lat defends his obsession with divas: We will not apologize for having a weakness for divas. We have loved divas for our entire life, ever since we popped out of one's womb.... Every blogger develops his or her own idi…
Over at Volokh Conspiracy, where commenters had complained about the lack of posts about the detainees bill, Orin Kerr and Ilya Somin have blogged about why they haven't blogged. This is one of the biggest problems for a la…
Do law students know (or believe) that we lawprofs mean for the exam to be a rewarding educational experience? UPDATE: In the comments, lots of students and former students express the disbelief I expected, though there are conce…
For the better! That's what I've been saying. Here 's an article in the Wall Street Journal on the subject: [A]ccording to Daniel Solove of the George Washington University Law School, professors shoulder much of the …
Eugene Volokh draws attention to an article by Cathy Seipp that finds fault with an L.A. Times article called "Blogging L.A." (Actually, the title I see at the link is "The new faces of the city.") The arti…
Here's a free link to reach Dana Mulhauser's article in TNR about the new death penalty case (Roper v. Simmons) and the effect it might have on abortion rights. In forbidding the death penalty for persons who commit crim…
Coy lawprof blogger "Oscar Madison" has some some thoughts about blogging pseudonymously. (What is the blog equivalent of "pen name"? I say it's keyboard name .) Maintaining [a professorial] image means d…
I say this is a law student, very awkwardly imagining what goes on in a lawprof's mind. Clue to law students: we don't sit around obsessing about how much we don't like you and how we can hurt you. I have never in tw…
Sorry for going off the Thanksgiving topic in that last post (my longest ever, long enough that I know that without looking over any other posts). Here 's a Thanksgiving post as an antidote, in which Jim Lindgren, of Volokh C…
Even though I check Sitemeter a lot and see who's linking to this blog and sending traffic this way, I very well might not have noticed that the official Bush campaign blog linked to my "How Kerry lost me" post ye…
Ambivalent Imbroglio emailed me, asking why, as a lawprof, I've taken up blogging. He's a law student interested in what motivates lawprofs to blog. I suppose the fact that I'm blogging an answer to email (which he s…