So this week is a busy one as I am taking a one week long class on international joint ventures. This is the second one credit, one week long course I’ve signed up for (I mentioned last semester Int’l M&A) the classes are part of a series that OSU Law started this year called the [...]
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Today the Supreme Court is going to be hearing an important case regarding campaign financing in Vermont (also today is the Anna Nicole Smith probate case). Vermont spent a lot of time researching, debating and passing election laws that greatly restrict campaign donations (to $400) as well as spending limits for campaigns (governor was $300,000, [...]
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Yup, interesting really I thought. There is a 3L here at OSU Law who is doing an independent study/research in which his ‘product’ is his blog (3L Epiphany, not sure exactly what that name means). It seems like he is just starting it this semester, so it will be interesting to see what comes from [...]
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“I could have ended up in Guantánamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.” This comes from a great story called “The Freshman” that I recommend in this mornings NY Times magazine about a former Taliban member who is now at Yale. It is interesting for a number of reasons, one was just hearing about [...]
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So just another food update from a few days ago when I made goat cheese and cheddar quesadilla. Originally they were looking a tad plain so I started making some pico de gallo, just using simply a diced tomato, some diced onion, some lime zest and lime juice and diced jalapeño with the seeds removed [...]
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So I might have been out of the loop again, but I hadn’t heard of the movie Der Untergang (Downfall) til recently, a 3 hour long ‘epic’ of sorts about the events leading to end of Hitler’s Nazi regime in his Berlin bunker. The movie (in German) is quite good, although certain scenes can be [...]
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I first heard about this last week on NPR (listen to story here) on an interview with New Yorker author Malcolm Gladwell. The story he had just written and was discussing concerned what could be described as the hardcore homeless, those who are chronically often for years living in shelters, aggressively panhandling and abusing alcohol [...]
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A judge ruled that Google’s image search, which duplicates and resizes images from websites, was a copyright violation. (See here)
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Just read an interesting article “After Neoconservatism” in the NYTimes by Francis Fukuyama (adapted apparently from his forthcomming book). The article points to among other things the current retreat from the Bush doctrine and spread of democracy around the Middle East (points to recent elections in Egypt and Palestine, which aren’t furthering our interests) I [...]
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The IM hockey season drew to a close last night for our Mortiz Law Hockey Assocation, with a 2-1 loss in the championship game last night in front of a packed audience (we actually did get out a surprisingly large number of fans). (I’ll also add it was our only playoff game, as we had [...]
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