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David v. Goliath?

September 02, 2010 15:56

Great stuff in the New York Times this week. Picking up on an earlier article in the Guardian, the Times does some digging on a controversy over who owns Michelangelo's David. As the article states, for 500 years the David...

Lawyer/Magician Sebastian Goldstein

September 02, 2010 15:23

Yet another lawyer/magician from Philly--Sebastian Goldstein, who practices with Marks, O'Neill, O'Brien & Courtney, in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania. He studied law at American University College of Law. Mr. Goldstein provides The Magic of Sebastian in his other life.Yet another lawyer/magician from...

Lawyer/Magician Ron Rychlak

September 02, 2010 15:19

The University of Mississippi Law School boasts its own lawyer/magician, Ronald J. Rychlak, a thirty-five year member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. Professor Rychlak writes in the areas of gambling law, the First Amendment, and religion and the law.The University of Mississippi Law...

Facebook and Subject Matter Jurisdiction: With Friends Like These...

September 02, 2010 13:30

Earlier this summer, Paul Ceglia filed a lawsuit in a Buffalo, New York state court claiming he’s entitled to an 84% stake in Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, the defendant and Facebook CEO, removed the case to U.S. District Court for the...

Stress & Fertility

September 02, 2010 10:33

A new study confirms the widely-held belief that stress adversely affects women's fertility. Read more here. Separately, it has also been suggested that shopaholic men also have lower fertility. Read about that here. MR

Hylton on Necessity

September 02, 2010 08:47

Keith Hylton (Boston University) has posted to SSRN The Economics of Necessity. The abstract provides: The necessity doctrine aligns the private and the social incentive for a property possessor to take a defensive action that prevents an invasion of his...

Patty Salkin

Patricia E. Salkin
September 02, 2010 05:25

Defendant companies entered into a contract where Grace Property would purchase 48 acres of Pacific Farm’s 74-acre property, which was bounded to the north by New York and to the east by Connecticut, to build a church.  The planning and zoning commission for the town of New Canaan granted su...

Wallace Warfield 1938-2010

September 02, 2010 05:23

Wallace Warfield died about a week ago, and the world of conflict resolution is now far less rich. Wallace taught at ICAR at George Mason, and he did stints with SPIDR, with ACUS, with Community Relations Service at DOJ,  with Eastern Mennonite University, and with street gang worked in NYC.  He w...

SALMS Logo Medium for Website

September 02, 2010 04:01

Mark your calendar! The list of speakers for the 2010-2011 academic year has been posted on the SALMS (Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences) website. The current list of speakers is as follows: Jim Sidanius Daniel Dennett Drazen Prelec Dan Kahan [Situationist Contributor] Sam Sommers...

Distinguishing Between Private-Public and Private-Private Transfers in Judicial and Regulatory Takings

September 01, 2010 20:00

I've been working on a fairly lengthy post-Stop the Beach article on judicial takings. I will probably post the article on SSRN in a week or so. In the meantime, I wanted to blog about a distinction that is at...