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Happy Fourth of July! And apologies for the lack of activity recently. As law students, time is on our side. Not so much as working folk, an...

Yesterday, the Iranian government issued its staunchest threat yet toward the people’s rebellion in response to the election results and has...

I wonder if the ABA would help push a type of debt-reduction similar to this one ... after all, it is its fault that (A) we have degree infl...

From time to time, we receive e-mails notifying us of upcoming events. We always appreciate the information and are more than happy to pass...

About a month ago, I shared Goutam Jois' interesting article, Stare Decisis is Cognitive Error , with our readers. Some of our commente...

Per the docket sheet . It will almost certainly be denied, but anything's possible. Especially with an issue that has already created (s...

Okay, I admit it. I didn't go to any of the "here's how you save money when researching on the client's dime" sessions...

Never have I read a wire-report that has more inadvertently used a proper verb to describe the (ongoing and soon to worsen) economic mess t...

People who know your boy Ol' Fred know that he has been a bit of a Roubini in his outlook. I've been saying "the Inflation is ...

I know that this is a bit delayed, but, since all the members of BBL are gainfully employed (or so I assume), we were unable to post until n...

Those of you who've been with us from the start remember the early days when Blackbook Legal was, at its core, an effort to stir up law ...

I've returned ! Today's article ( click here ) comes from the Chicago Tribune and comments on the effects layoffs have on people...

Conservative radio talk show host Eric “Mancow” Muller was convinced that waterboarding wasn't torture. In order to demonstrate this, ...

The California Supreme Court has provided notice of its forthcoming opinion in Strauss v. Horton , the case testing Proposition 8's lega...

Law students across the nation are graduating. Graduation is obviously a time for celebration, but with these harsh economic conditions , t...

A week ago, we interviewed LSAT Blog's Steve Schwartz on tips to beat the LSAT . Amongst other things, Steve strongly urged prospective...

As I was reading an op-ed in the New York Times , I recalled an earlier post written by my colleague, Nima, which discussed whether televis...

As the New York Times reports , the New York Court of Appeals has held (in a 4-3 ruling) that police violate New York's constitution whe...

Psychologically speaking, it may well be--at least according to Goutam Jois. While perusing SSRN the other day, I came across his provocativ...

A college bar in Connecticut is making news with a cardboard cutout of President Obama that it keeps behind the bar. The problem is that th...