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When your email about race goes national

April 29, 2010

Here's a foofaraw about the dangers of law students not being careful about what they say in emails…or maybe it's about the violations of privacy norms and the malicious forwarding of email. See if you think it's something you might have done–either writing the email or the distribution of it.

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Facts about inequality

April 10, 2010

Here's one for the economic libertarians that read this blog. These charts on wealth and income inequality in America are quite depressing. But the one that really got my attention was

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The student internship–valuable experience or exploitation?

April 8, 2010

The point of minimum wage rules is to make sure that vulnerable workers are not exploited–to set a minimum threshold for the compensation of labor. The point of an internship is to obtain valuable job-related experience and education at a time when you may need a lot of income to maintain your lifestyle. What happens [...]

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Citizens United v. Original Intent

April 8, 2010

I'm stepping on Professor Padfield's territory, but I saw this interview with a historian and thought it was interesting. History professor Brian Murphy explains how the original corporations were charters from the King, often  to establish cities or royal monopolies, rather than as business entitites.  The key point:

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"Orientals"

March 30, 2010

Well, I got involved in a little brou-ha-ha over on Bob Dyer's column, and I thought I would bring it up over here. The issue is that the sports teams for Akron's East High School have traditionally been called "the Orientals." Born and raised in California, I have always considered that term somewhat offensive, so [...]

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The University of Akron School of Law's celebrity doppelganger is…?

March 10, 2010

It all started when Ashby Jones opened her WSJ Law Blog post with this: "Cornell is the Lady Gaga of the law-school world. Both are white hot, but the explanations behind each’s popularity don’t don’t fully add up." Then Above the Law's David Lat joined in with (among others): "If Cornell is Lady Gaga, maybe [...]

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Business and personal ethics in an economic downturn

February 16, 2010

I was struck recently by the contrast between individuals discussing the personal moral obligation to keep paying the mortgage on a home that is "under water" (they owe much more to the bank than the home is currently worth) and business advice encapsulated in this New York Times Headline:

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Judge in Gay Marriage Case Outed

February 10, 2010

in the San Francisco Chronicle. Well, not exactly outed, since according to the article the judge, Vaughn Walker, has made no secret of his sexual orientation. In the very high-profile case in federal court in California challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the gay marriage prohibition passed by California voters in 2008, Judge Walker has [...]

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Should the poor own or rent?

February 1, 2010

"I think people need to get past the view that you can't have a successful life without one day owning a home." This from the Atlantic's Business blog, agreeing with Barney Frank's apparent suggestion that the poor should be encouraged to rent, rather than to buy homes. What do you think? Is owning a home part [...]

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It's all politics now.

January 22, 2010

The fundamental premise of the Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC is that a corporation should have the same First Amendment rights to engage in political speech as any citizen, because a corporation is simply an "association of citizens" in the "corporate form." I think this is going to lead to the politicization of [...]

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Don't Try to Have Fun if you are Depressed

November 24, 2009

Or you might lose your insurance coverage. Or maybe the issue is really about not posting pictures of it (the having of fun) on Facebook. OR maybe it's really about setting your privacy controls appropriately.

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Study says 2,200 uninsured veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance.

November 11, 2009

A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as [...]

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