Posh Law Prof Pads, via Above The Law, including an $8.45 million Manhattan pied-à-terre recently purchased by Daniel Fischel, former dean of the University of Chicago Law School. The others, as you might expect, are at Harvard, Yale, NYU, and Columbia. Highest priced law prof pad listed? $30 million. Yep, you read it right, $30 million.
Relatedly, for those who missed it in late August, the Boston Globe ran this story about the “new owner of the grand Victorian home on Irving Street in Cambridge where Julia Child, the doyenne of la cuisine bourgeoise, lived, cooked, and warbled for 43 years” – Harvard law professor Michael Klarman and his family.
Via Brian Leiter, William Sage (University of Texas at Austin) and Susan Wolf (Minnesota) have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences.
Eric Posner and Henry Farrell discuss Eric’s new book on bloggingheads.
Mike Dorf, Spork Puts New Twist on Old Rules/Standards Question
The Superfreakonomics controversy continues (See the first round in Weekend Links):
Dubner: The Anatomy of a Smear
Brad DeLong’s Last Post on SuperFreakonomics
Via Brad DeLong, Four Defenenders of SuperFreakonomics (Bryan Caplan, Tim Harford, Joshua Gans, and Robert Waldmann)
Via Greg Mankiw, some reactions from Yoram Bauman (the Stand-up Economist – see video below) here and here, and an exchange with Levitt.
Above The Law reports that Stanford Law is moving to a quarter system, and Steve Bainbridge suspects that quarters are in his future as well.
Via The Blog of Legal Times, Judge
Gives OK to Examine GMU Professor's Job Record in Harassment Case
Paul Horwitz and Jack Chin with advice for aspiring law profs on Choosing Among “Lower-Tier” Schools.
Instapundit: “Is the Blogosphere Superior to the Twitterverse? They’re just different, okay? — and there are enough electrons and pixels to go around.”
The amazing thing about the $30 Million mansion on riverside drive (in addition to its inherent amazingness- it's lovely on the outside and in a great area. I used to walk by it all the time) is that it was, according to the NY Times, bought by the professor from Columbia for $750,000. That was quite a while ago (in the late 70's, if I recall correctly) but still, not too bad of a return on one's investment.
The apartments on Central Park West are not too shabby, either, as far as the building and location go.
Posted by: Matt | October 21, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Wow, you've actually seen it. It looks amazing from the photos.
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | October 21, 2009 at 03:35 PM
I should say that I've only seen it from outside. (It's right on riverside drive, with a great view, too, towards the park and over the Hudson.) I thought about knocking on the door and pretending to be an interested buyer but somehow I thought that's probably not how such places sell and they likely wouldn't suspect me of having an extra 30 million dollars laying around.
Posted by: Matt | October 21, 2009 at 04:49 PM
lol. This old ATL post has some photos of the inside, and it looks just as beautiful as the outside. I can't believe it also has views.
http://www.abovethelaw.com/2006/09/lawyerly_lairs_professor_smits.php
Posted by: Kim Krawiec | October 21, 2009 at 07:24 PM