Dorothy A. Brown (Emory) presents If They Haven't Learned ... Have You Really Taught: The Value of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems at William & Mary today as part of its Herbert V. Kelly, Sr. Teaching Program: The 2009-10 Kelly Teaching Program was designed by Professor Jayne W. Barnard, th ...

Given the serial fiascoes of the Martha Coakley for Senate campaign - veering from gaffe (her claim that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan) to comedy (misspelling her own state’s name in an attack ad) to ham-handedness (a staffer barrelling over a Weekly Standard reporter trying to ask ab ...

Our friends at Brooklyn Law School, which will be hosting the next Prawfsfest! this summer, are also hosting a neat symposium early next month entitled, Sharing the Blame: The Law and Morality of Punishing Collective Entities. Looks very interesting, especially if you're in the NYC area. Speakers in ...

We've discussed the oft-found fact situation of how a fee determination by a bankruptcy court may block a later legal malpractice action.  In Breslin Realty Dev. Corp. v Shaw ;  2010 NY Slip Op 00087 Decided on January 5, 2010; Appellate Division, Second Department; Chambers, J., J.  ...

For publication opinions today (6): In Anna Williams b/n/f Randy Williams, et al v. M. Jayne Adelsperger, D.D.S., a 13-page...

Evolutionary Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, by Jayne W. Barnard, William & Mary Law School, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Since the worldwide financial meltdown in the autumn of 2008 and the discovery of...

WORLD WAR II VETS: This isn’t the Britain we fought for. “As a group, they feel furious at not being able to speak their minds. They see the lack of debate and the damning of dissenters as racists or Little Englanders as deeply upsetting affronts to freedom of speech.”

Jayne Barnard was kind enough to host me at William & Mary last week as part of the 2009-10 Herbert V. Kelly, Sr., Teaching Program. It was a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with many longtime friends, including Jayne, Alan Meese, and Nate Oman, and I enjoyed the chance to share some thoughts on ...

So much for me being a smug New Englander who thinks that the Northeast is intellectually superior to the peckerwood hellholes of the Confederacy. Hot on the heels of Maine voters deciding that they don’t want all eight gay couples who live in Maine to have the right to marry who they want, R ...

I am pleased that the will be held in Denver, Colorado from March 10-12, 2010.  This year the program will be a bit different from previous conferences.  American Conference Institute (ACI) has been hired to develop and manage the conference.  Recently they announced (on LinkedIn.com) a very int ...