Let's follow McCain's example. Pay our taxes and give to charity.

This 2007 Yale JD is going to be a professor at Cornell next year. Is this guy a real all-star or something?

http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/bio.cfm?id=341

are you kidding me with this screening of comment posts? (last 2 post comment attempts havne't posted) If so, i'm done with this blog . . .good job demolishing it, Lat.

Law schools do that from time to time. Why? I have no idea. Having a 2007 grad as a prof. is completely ridiculous. I don't care if he's the smartest guy in the world, he has no experience.

Him teaching anything is the academic equivalent of going to a priest for marriage counseling.

volokh -- more yale jealously anyone? pathetic.

11:03 - Read the article (if your attentiion span and literacy skills equip you for complicated analysis). Volokh didn't write it, he just told people about it. Yalies are smart, but also uneducated and overly impressd with their ability to discern ultimate truth. I don't know anyone who didn't already know that and hadn't known it for years, in both practice and the academy. The aritcle simply spells out this self-evident truism in one kind of numbers. There are lots of other ways to demonstrate it.

3:22, the sting of getting rejected from YLS still burns huh?

Doesn't it seem that the most likely explanation is that Yalies are by and large liberal and clerk for similar judges? Thus, with the SC churning out not-so-liberal opinions and Congress issuing not-so-liberal laws (think of the immigration context alone), lots of Yalie's judges' opinions get "flagged." I would also point out that the methodology of this paper is silly: a yellow flag is in no way equivalent to a red flag; most yellow flagged opinions are still good law and its just Westlaw making a judgment call. Similarly, even a red flag does not mean the actually holding of an opinion was reversed - the SC's new standard for stating a claim (Twombly) just flagged every opinion regarding a motion to dismiss.

Lat why aren't u getting it, THIS NEW FORMAT SUCKS!!! Go back to the old one.

3:32 - YLS is for the kids. Any smart parent would have gone to HLS. The VC discusses the possible explanations for why Yalies "wouldn't know a shelter half from an entrenching tool," as Tom Lehrer once so endearingly put a similar point.

The McCain tax figures are meaningless if he's going to hide a bunch of his income on his wife's return (that isn't going to be released).

What the eff was the point of releasing his return? It means nothing!

Good call, 11:00. Those Harvard grads are amazing with entrenching tools.

Not sure if anyone cares, but Greenberg Traurig NY layed off a bunch of secretaries and paralegals.

HLS definitely seems good at entrenching tools

So how come bulletproof will comment on a blog called "Fagistan" but not here. I call shennanigans.

2:03 and 8:36 - Maybe your children, or grandchildren, can go there. Don't be discouraged. It's common for families to make their way up the achievement ladder over many generations rather than all at once.

How would falling from Yale to Harvard constitute a move "up the achievement ladder"?