Mid-week Links

Via Historiann, Johns Hopkins students are annoyed that Hopkins is playing Harvard in "The Social Network," a movie about the creation of Facebook by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg.

Ernst on Mashaw on Administrative Law in the Gilded Age

Mary Dudziak’s Sunday Book Round-up

Larry Ribstein on Todd Henderson on Jones v. Harris

Brian Leiter on Melbourne Law Faculty in Turmoil and at his philosophy blog, “Should an Aspiring Legal Philosopher Get Only the PhD, or a JD as Well?”

Over at the new JOTWELL (The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)), Bill Bratton discusses Anna Gelpern, Financial Crisis Containment, 41 Conn. L. Rev. 1051 (2009). 

The Role of Audience in Legal Writing: Marc DeGirolami, Orin Kerr, Paul Horwitz

Alex Tabarrok, How to sell a dollar for more than a dollar

This one from Daniel Hamermesh at Freakonomics made me laugh out loud: 

I watched the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night. It got me wondering what would happen to various economic outcomes if, like Brad Pitt’s character, henceforth half of all men, but no women, were born and lived their lives backward from old age to infancy.

 

Comments

[Eric Fink]

As a proud Johns Hopkins alumnus, I join in the chorus of disapproval over this rank abuse of our beloved Homewood campus. Hullaballoo!!!

[Kim Krawiec]

I didnt realize you were an alum, Eric! Well, maybe all this will be good publicity for the campus? All new is good news and that type of thing . . .