Apr
20
Was an Action against Goldman Sachs Inevitable?
Posted by: Joseph Schuster | April 20, 2010 | 9 Comments
While reading through news on the SEC’s case against Goldman Sachs, I can’t help but wonder if the charge would have been brought regardless of what happened in the market. The action against Goldman Sachs comes from their arrangement and sale of mortgage backed collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). In 2006, John Paulson, approached Goldman Sachs [...]
Apr
20
Debating Christian Legal Society v. Martinez
Posted by: Richard M. Esenberg | April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of making a quick visit to the University of San Diego Law School to engage in a debate on the case of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, which was argued before the United States Supreme Court on Monday. The event was made possible by a grant from the Templeton [...]
Apr
19
Being Fair to Church Autonomy After Smith
Posted by: Daniel Suhr | April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Stuart McPhail makes an interesting observation in his short essay “Being FAIR to Religion: Rumsfeld v. FAIR’s Impact on the Associational Rights of Religious Organizations,” 3 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 221 (2009), which was recently brought to my attention by the Alliance Defense Fund’s excellent “Alliance Alert” daily email (a must-read for scholars and activists [...]
Apr
19
Supreme Court Grants Cert in USERRA Cat Paw’s Case
Posted by: Paul M. Secunda | April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Ross Runkel’s LawMemo has news of the U.S. Supreme Court granting cert. in a USERRA cat paw case. You may recall that the Court previously took cert. in another cat’s paw case in 2007 in the Title VII context (BCI Coca-Cola Bottling v. EEOC), but that case was never heard by the Court because it [...]
Apr
19
Do Athletes Have Better Brains Than the Rest of Us?
Posted by: Matthew J. Mitten | April 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Many people, particularly those who lack or have little athletic ability, perceive elite athletic performance as solely a function of outstanding physical abilities and skills. In a recent article with the above title, Carl Zimmer writes: “The qualities that set a great athlete apart from the rest of us lie not just in the muscles [...]
Apr
17
Overcoming Gender Stereotypes: What Can Law Schools Do?
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | April 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
As Andrea Schneider observes in a new article, media coverage of the 2008 election nicely illustrates the dilemma facing many women in leadership roles: they are apt to be perceived as either competent but unlikeable (the way that Hillary Clinton was often portrayed) or likeable but incompetent (the way that Sarah Palin was often portrayed). [...]
Apr
14
Ten Quotes from the MPS Superintendents Forum
Posted by: Alan J. Borsuk | April 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Ten quotes that stick in my head from the panel discussion of former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendents at the Law School on Monday evening: Robert Peterkin, superintendent from 1988 to 1991: “This is a town that loves politics as a blood sport.” Peterkin on school reform when he was in Milwaukee: “We should have done [...]
Apr
14
Violence and Social Order
Posted by: Bruce E. Boyden | April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The L.A. Times published an op-ed on Monday touting Randolph Roth’s recent book, American Homicide (Wash. Post review). Roth is a historian at OSU who studies violence and social change, a subject I am intensely interested in as well. In American Homicide, Roth argues that the homicide rate in the United States tends to spike [...]
Apr
14
So You Think You Can Bring Peace to the Middle East?
Posted by: Michael M. O'Hear | April 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve never used a computer game in my teaching, but Andrea Schneider and Kathleen Goodrich ‘o8 make a good case that the game PeaceMaker has a lot to teach dispute resolution students. The game puts players into the position of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President, with an opportunity to achieve peace [...]
Apr
14
Wendy Selig-Prieb: “I’m Still a Brewers Fan Through and Through”
Posted by: Alan J. Borsuk | April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Mark Attanasio “has been everything anyone would want in an owner.” He has embraced Milwaukee, taken the Milwaukee Brewers organization “to the next level,” and made thoughtful, smart business decisions. That’s the kind of praise a happy fan of the local baseball team might well offer. In this case, the praise comes from Wendy Selig-Preib, [...]
Apr
13
Forget About That Local Democracy Bit
Posted by: Richard M. Esenberg | April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
One of the insights of Public Choice theory (a way of viewing political actors as self interested agents) is that intensely interested parties may often be able to exercise disproportionate influence over public policy to benefit their own interests at the expense of the common good. This proposal to vest greater control over local school [...]
Apr
12
Self-Defense: Sending a Moral Message
Posted by: Alan J. Borsuk | April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
What kind of message should the law send when it comes to a woman who kills a man who has been abusing, assaulting, or threatening her? “I think it is important that we send the right moral message in the law,” Joshua Dressler, a respected authority on criminal law and procedure said in a lecture [...]
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