Archive for March, 2008
Rankings Twist Law School Financial Aid Choices
Margot Adler at Public Radio’s Justice Talking takes a look at the ugly side of the economics of higher education in College Admissions: A Game of Privilege?
This part of the discussion with education researcher and policymaker Ross Weiner and public universities representative Peter McPherson highlights a particularly pertinent issue in law school settings.
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Cardozo Law Revue 2007 Beavis and Butt-for
Video: Cardozo Law Revue 2007 Beavis and Butt-for, an ode to Palsgraf.
Confronting my Inner Law Nerd
Law Nerds occupy a peculiar place in nerd taxonomy. We generally retain the capacity for normal conversation and our fixations on particular theories of judicial interpretation are easily mistaken for the same types of political positions that the normals have.
We can thus avoid detection for long periods of time until our condition is at some […]
USNWR Rankings Leaked? Houston up 5 to 55 (unconfirmed)
From First Movers: Anthony Ciolli, U.S. News Rankings Leaked Early?, see this PDF.
‘Tis the Season: Law School Rankings Looming
For better or worse, my very own University of Houston Law Center, apparently still the poster child for rankings schadenfreude, features prominently in the ABA Journal’s article The Rankings Czar. Read the backstory here, here and here. The cover story begins and ends with Houston.
Tropical Storm Allison blasted through Houston killing 22 people, flattening homes […]
Houston Law Review, Spring 2008, Vol. 45 No. 1
The Twelfth Annual Frankel Lecture
Foreward
Michael A. Olivas - IMMIGRANTS IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE AND THE POLITY FOLLOWING HURRICANE KATRINA
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Kevin R. Johnson - HURRICANE KATRINA: LESSONS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE
Commentary
Raquel E. Aldana - SILENT VICTIMS NO MORE?: MORAL INDIGNATION AND THE POTENTIAL FOR LATINO POLITICAL MOBILIZATION IN DEFENSE OF IMMIGRANTS
Anna Williams Shavers - THE […]
Reasonable Doubt, Todd Dupont and Mark Bennett host Harris Count DAs Kelly Siegler and Murray Newman
Harris County Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s Reasonable Doubt television show, February 21, 2008. Hosted by Todd Dupont and Mark Bennett; … all » guests Harris County Assistant District Attorneys Kelly Siegler and Murray Newman.
Reasonable Doubt TV, Todd Dupont and Tate Williams host Judge Pat Lykos
HCCLA’s Reasonable Doubt TV show. Hosts Todd Dupont and Tate Williams; Guest Pat Lykos.
Reasonable Doubt TV, Todd Dupont, Tate Williams
Reasonable Doubt with Todd Dupont, Tate Williams, and two Harris County Civil District Court candidates.
Supreme Court Inc
Rosen, a law prof at George Washington University, offers an insight in the business of Supreme Court. On one hand it traces the ‘conservativation’ of the Court, a concerted effort to steer the Court to the right by judges, academics, and most importantly, Presidents. At another level, it recounts the professionalization and increasing sophistication of […]