Kenneth Schiedel, an 83-year-old man, returned to his room in his Milwaukie, Oregon retirement community, leaving his car perched over the 2nd story wall of a parking garage. Schiedel said that he accidentally pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake causing his car to crash through a wall and on ...

This is a very fast note on the question of European political economy raised in my last post.  It’s not intended to be exhaustive, and yes, it is pretty conclusory.  My impression over many years as an international law professor who bridges the public and private law divides; not a specialist in E ...

The WSJ’s ‘Heard on the Street’ has an interesting item today comparing California and Greece from the standpoint of the bond markets.  Bottom line is that California fares far better than Greece in investors’ minds.  It’s a question, of course, how much of that is attributable to how investors see ...

My class in private equity and venture capital doesn’t know it yet, but I think I might have them read Harvard Law School’s John Coates’ new empirical paper on the effects of ownership on M&A, or at least some important sections of it.  I’ve just been through it and think it’s terrific, with rob ...

Google’s ad last night attracted quite a bit of attention. Kenneth Corbin of Internet News said, For Google, Super Bowl Sunday was something of a departure. In the third quarter of the game, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) aired a nearly full-minute ad promoting its search engine, marking one of the few ...

Kenneth Abraham has an enlightening guest post on TortsProf Blog called "Four Conceptions of Insurance." The relationship between the tort system and insurance systems is fascinating and important. More work needs to be done in this area. ADL

The Asset Protection Law Journal helps "individuals and businesses take advantage of asset protection laws." It's published by Kenneth Laino, of the Cleveland firm Schneider, Smeltz, Ranney & LaFond. He's discussing business protection, creditors' rights, domestic asset protection trusts, irrevoca ...

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: As counter-media fuels tea party movement, main stream media catches on. UPDATE: Reader Kenneth MacDonald notes some racism: One caller to C-Span – which aired nearly the entire convention – said the sight of primarily white and older self-described “patriots” frightene ...

I realized, talking in office hours with a couple of my law students, that they did not really understand what is meant by the phrase “borrowing from our children” — as we often hear it raised or referenced these days in budget, deficit, and other policy debates.  These are bright students who have ...

READER STEVE EIMERS references this Politico article and writes: “Why do you think they showed a picture of a white guy but referred to Antonio Hinton?” I dunno. This is Antonio Hinton.