From Adjunct Law Prof Blog, via Above the Law, Keefe v. New York Law School, ___Misc. 3d___(N.Y. Co. Nov. 17, 2009):
Plaintiff, a current student at New York Law School, ("NYLS") is suing NYLS as a result of a "C" that Plaintiff received in his Legal Writing II course. Plaintiff now moves for an injunction requiring the law school to change its grading system from letter grades to pass/fail. Defendant/New York Law School moves to dismiss. For the reasons stated below, the motion is granted.
Writers block? In the WSJ (subscription), from writing in the bathroom (Junot Díaz) to dressing in character (Nicholson Baker), 11 top authors share their methods for getting the story on the page.
NY Times, via Mark Thoma, Post-Mortems Reveal Obvious Risk at Banks:
Of the nation’s 8,100 banks, about 2,200 — ranging from community lenders in the Rust Belt to midsize regional players — far exceed the risk thresholds that would ordinarily call for greater scrutiny from management and regulators, according to Foresight Analytics, a banking research firm.
About 600 small banks are in danger of collapsing because of troubled real estate loans if they do not shore up their finances soon, according to the firm. About 150 lenders have failed since the crisis erupted in mid-2007.
Like A Virgin (Again). From the NY Times, via Al Roth:
Conservative [Egyptian] lawmakers have called for a ban on imports of a Chinese-made kit meant to help women fake their virginity. The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, which is distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo and costs about $30, is intended to help newly married women fool their husbands into believing they are virgins, an essential marriage requirement for women in much of the Middle East, by leaking a blood-like substance when inserted and broken. Sheik Sayed Askar, a member of the parliamentary committee on religious affairs, demanded the government take responsibility for fighting the product, which he said would make it easier for women to give in to temptation.
Larry Catá Backer on Disciplining Education
Via Dan Ernst:
I learned recently of the BBC radio series, The Cases That Changed Our World. The latest episode is "The legal case of the snail found in the ginger beer ," Donoghue v Stevenson (1932).
James Surowiecki in the New Yorker on The Debt Economy. Then there’s also this:
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