Author Archive
The Gen-Y Albatross
Once a year, just before the OCI season heats up, the 2Ls at UHLC are herded into a classroom, hosed off and made presentable and treated to a presentation by Mary Crane. Mary Crane believes we are part of the "T-Ball Generation"; among other things this means we:
wear questionable attire into the office
don’t care [...]
The Problem of Discovery
Martha Neil with the ABA Journal has a pair of articles up on discovery, OK, Discovery’s a Problem, But What Can Be Done About It? and Litigation Too Costly, E-Discovery a ‘Morass,’ Trial Lawyers Say, prompted by an interim report released by the American College of Trial Lawyers: ACTL & IAALS PUBLISH INTERIM REPORT ON [...]
ESPN360 Brings College Football to the Huddled Masses
WHEREAS the Law Review office is located in a dark and inhospitable cave deep in the bowels of the Law Center where neither natural light nor cellphone coverage can penetrate, WHEREAS it is now the heart of college football season, WHEREAS it is now apparently bizarro world in football season where teams like Ole Miss [...]
Law School Faculty Couples
The National Law Journal’s Law Schools Hiring Faculty Couples featured University of Houston Law Center Professors Joan Krause and Richard Saver as an example of law professor couples that come as package deals.
Although it’s by no means a secret, I had no idea they were married for the longest time as they don’t share [...]
Hurricane Ike Roils Houston Legal Community
The JP Morgan Chase Tower in downtown Houston lost most of the windows on the southeast side from the ground floor to somewhere near the 30th. The damage purportedly came from gravel and debris from a neighboring building.
The streets were littered with glass and debris including whole file cabinets and scattered documents marked "confidential." Yikes.
Some [...]
Why is Admission Based on Anything but GPA and LSAT, “Gaming” Law School Admissions?
While I’ve been following the recent rumblings about changes in the U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of part-time or evening law school programs, Amir Efrati’s recent Wall Street Journal article Law School Rankings Reviewed to Deter ‘Gaming’, struck a nerve. It begins:
The most widely watched ranking of U.S. law schools may move to stop [...]
Elizabeth Warren on the link between Healthcare and Bankruptcy
Video of Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren discussing the statistical links between health care and bankruptcy. The most revealing statistic -
75% of the families who ended up in bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem had health insurance at the onset of the illness or accident that ultimately landed them in bankruptcy; they had health insurance - in other words they played by the rules in every possible way - got a good education, got a good job, bought a home, had health insurance and yet the system is so misdesigned in terms of how big the bills can be and how narrow the protection from health insurance is.
Carnegie Council: The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases
In the course of some research, I came across this very interesting introduction to the world of international judges from a Carnegie Council forum earlier this year. The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases, Cesare P. R. Romano, Stephen M. Schwebel, Daniel Terris. Click the links below [...]
Moderating Blog Comments - A Word from Your Sponsor
Kevin O’Keefe at LexBlog brought up an excellent conversation on Moderating law blog comments : The New York Times protocol. Comments are just a part of life in the blogosphere and even a local cable access blog like this one gets its fair share. The comments range from the silent majority, to the regulars, an [...]
Molecule Identification Technique Promises to Identify Presence of Drugs, Explosives in Fingerprints
International Herald Tribune’s Fingerprint test tells much more than identity portrays a future with tools CSI has never dreamed of. Desorption Electrospray Ionization, or “Desi” uses mass spectrometry to identify molecules at a previously unheard of level of specificity.
In Cooks’ method, a tiny spray of electrically charged liquid – either water or water and alcohol [...]