Lawyerly Lairs: You’re Sick of Noajeannie Feldsuk. We Don’t Care.
The whole point of being a mono-monikered celebrity entity is that you get covered, and covered, and covered by the media. This coverage continues, long after the public claims to be sick of you and cries out for mercy.
But really they’re not sick of you. This is why Brangelina still moves magazines.
As for the Brangelina of the legal academy, Harvard Law profs Noah Feldman and Jeannie Suk, the jury is still out on what to call them. To vote in our nickname poll, click here.
But we DO know what to call the good professors’ recently acquired, $2.8 million house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Coldwell Banker has some suggestions: “Imposing,” “lovely,” “magnificent,” and “exceptional.”
We agree. Check it out:
If this reader comment is correct — and it appears to be, since various details match up with the New York Observer article (an 1873 Victorian with five fireplaces and a pool) — Professors Feldman and Suk will be taking up residence in the shown above. As you can see, it’s one nice pile o’ bricks.
Sometimes real estate listings get pulled after outside websites link to them. We hate it when that happens.
To preserve this information for posterity, we took a screencap of the original property listing. Check it out, after the jump.
Victorian Mansard Mansion [Coldwell Banker]
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"Sukfeld" is the best, but it's even better if you add the c ("Suckfeld"), thereby describing Noah's bloviated ego perfectly. One pities his poor hapless son...
anon, do you actually know Prof. Feldman and his family, or are you just an unhappy little ankle-biter? As to your use of "bloviated" to modify "ego," I do not think that word means what you think it means. Or, you know, you would have used it right.
Just curious. How do a couple of law professors afford a house like this? OP-Anon, if you knew Feldman, you'd know how ridiculous your description of him is.
Feldman has written a bunch of books, and he has another one in the pipeline. Maybe he got an enormous book advance?
Does posting a photo and data sheet on someone's house cross a line in anyone's mind?
more info on the house.
http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=56439100
To anon 2:51:
no, it doesn't cross a line, b/c it's pretty important for people to realize the privilege of a lot of people teaching at top schools. Read Walter Benn Michael's The Trouble with Diversity if you want to get a sense of why the elite academy's general obliviousness to class & class diversity matters.
in reply to anon @ 2:51, no.
for some reason i have a vague memory that sparks street is where breyer lives
2:51 PM: If so, the line was crossed a long time ago. It was crossed by Zillow (linked to above by 3:33 PM); Zabasearch, which publishes even unlisted phone and address information; Google Maps, which shows the location of my barbecue grill; and Massachusetts public records.
Does posting a photo and data sheet on someone's house cross a line in anyone's mind?
As the original poster of this information, my answer is: Maybe.
Obviously the information was freely available. I was able to find the information by searching for recent sales in Cambridge in that price range. The price range and general location were available from the Observer article. In today's world of Google Maps (and Earth), Zillow and Microsoft LiveLocal it is clear that much of the information that was previously hidden away in dusty records offices or only accessible to governments with satellites is now available to anyone with an internet connection.
However, the existence of information does not necessarily make its public dissemination appropriate.
Discuss...
Just saw all this. The only person with a bigger ego than Noah is Jeannie, who was in my 1L section. She was very brilliant and professors were obviously awed by her comments in class and fawned all over her - and she knew it. It was unseemly. She pretended to sympathize with us mortals but it was clear she thought she was above it all.
I was in Jeannie's 1L section, too. Classmate, you're an idiot. Yes, Jeannie was brilliant, but she wore it very lightly. Professors loved her because she was smart, engaged and really interested in the material. Oooh, how "unseemly"! Why do I get the feeling that you were one of those Harvard Law kids who thought it was totally uncool to show that you actually liked the law?
Feldman and Suk don't quite live up to their advance billing. There's no there there - it's all smoke and mirrors. Harvard went after him to revive its moribund international law teaching ranks but he wouldn't bite and wouldn't accept the offer until she was offered a tenure-track position - so HLS offered its own unique affirmative action and ponied up a tenure track appointment for her.
2:48 - HLS also helped fund the house but that was just icing on the cake for Feldsuk.
Sounds to me like a lot of jealous classmates.
THis site really goes out of its way to ASSSSSS-LICK. Tell me, does their shit taste good? What kind of sniveling gelatinous spine cares about these smug people? They seem like privileged brats who can't escape school. Nothing to admire there. I would relish the chance to take either of them down in court.
Anyone who has memorized the 'better part of the Hebrew Bible' surely deserves a nice house.
I went to cheder mit Noyach. He vas already den a groysse sheigitz. Far vus he couldn't epes hev a bissel kavonneh mit da brochos?
I welcome this union of diverse cultures, South Korean, and . . . whatever culture it is where you spend your whole life trying to get an item in your high school alumin newsletter.
jackasses??
they have combined IQ of a donkey (a really dumb donkey)