Law Professors
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Asians, Fashion, Fashion Victims Unit, Law Professors, Viet Dinh
Viet Dinh: A Dissenting Opinion
Some of you think that we list a bit too much to the right around here — that we rave about prominent legal conservatives, while mocking the liberals. We’ve heard your complaints. For the record, we regularly poke fun at conservatives, while raving about liberals. In terms of garnering raves, as long as you’re a […] -
Asians, Eavesdropping / Wiretapping, Food, HP, Larry Sonsini, Law Professors, Supreme Court Clerks, Viet Dinh
Viet Dinh Is One Hungry Guy
Remember Professor Viet Dinh? If not, here’s what we previously wrote about him: Dinh represents venture capitalist god Thomas Perkins, in Perkins’s (rather tense) dealings with HP’s board and lawyers [concerning the HP spying controversy]. Dinh, for those of you visiting from other planets, is one of the highest-flying legal eagles in the country. He’s […] - Sponsored
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Law Professors, Nauseating Things, Tax Law, Weirdness
What Does the Colon of a Tax Law Professor Look Like?
If you woke up this morning with this thought burning a hole in your head, guess what? Today’s your lucky day. Tax Prof Colon [TaxProf Blog] P.S. Congratulations to Professor Caron on his clean bill of colonic health.
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Celebrities, Fabulosity, Feldsuk, Hotties, Jeannie Suk, Law Professors, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Musical Chairs, Nauseating Things, Noah Feldman, Noajeannie, Supreme Court Clerks
Musical Chairs: Professor Noah Feldman Is Leaving NYU for Harvard!
Professor Noah Feldman — the brilliant, gorgeous, legal academic superstar / public intellectual — is abandoning NYU Law School (its student body hotness notwithstanding). He’s heading up to Harvard Law School, where his similarly beautiful and brainy wife, Jeannie Suk, is already on the faculty. (Most readers of ATL are probably familiar with this celebrity […] -
Britney Spears, Celebrities, Crime, Food, Intellectual Property, Interview Stories, Law Professors, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Sex
Non-Sequiturs: 11.29.06
* After being subjected to Prince Charles’s tampon metaphors, is there really anything more to know about the Royal Family? [The Guardian] * Pussy. Labia. Vagina. (Yeah, I too know way too much about Britney’s and, thanks to the above, Camilla’s.) Salary? Buzz! That word is taboo. [Feminist Law Professors] * But I think in […] -
Anna Schneider-Mayerson, Law Professors, New York Observer, Richard Posner, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court Clerks, Tim Wu
Wherein We Receive An Email from Celebrity Law Prof Tim Wu
Although we mentioned it in passing, we didn’t give adequate attention to Anna Schneider-Mayerson’s delightful profile of Tim Wu when it appeared earlier this month in the New York Observer. (It was discussed on several other prominent blogs.) Now we have an excuse to double back and correct the error: We’ve received an email from […] -
9th Circuit, Fashion, Food, Law Professors
In Las Vegas Parks, Feed the Pigeons, Not the Bloggers
At right: Homeless — or just fashion-impaired? Back in April, in Jones v. City of Los Angeles (PDF), the Ninth Circuit ruled that “a City of Los Angeles ordinance that criminalizes sitting, lying, or sleeping on public streets and sidewalks” violated the Eighth Amendment (specifically, its prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment). The ruling struck […] -
Alston & Bird, Biglaw, Dewey Ballantine, King & Spalding, Law Professors, Musical Chairs, Tax Law
Musical Chairs: 11.06.06
A few moves within the legal profession worth noting: Legal Academia: * Tax law professor Neil Buchanan, to GW, from Rutgers-Newark, effective January 2007. (Gavel Bang: TaxProf Blog.) Lateral Law Firm Moves: * Corporate lawyer Carey Schreiber, to Winston & Strawn, from Dewey Ballantine. * Corporate lawyer Jeffrey Katz, to Dechert (as a partner), from […] - Sponsored
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Alex Kozinski, Copyright, Eyes of the Law, Hotties, Intellectual Property, Law Professors, Law Schools
The Eyes of the Law: Judge Kozinski in the Windy City
Two hotties for the price of one: Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, the #1 Superhottie of the Federal Judiciary; and our super-cute correspondent, Justin, a student at the DePaul University College of Law. West Coast folk, don’t say we neglect you here at Above the Law. Earlier today, we wrote about some Ninth Circuit benchslappery. […] -
Asians, Guido Calabresi, Kenji Yoshino, Law Professors, Law Schools
Kenji Yoshino: Tied to a Chair?
We recently passed along the rumor that Professor Kenji Yoshino, one of Yale Law School’s most promising young scholars, might be leaving New Haven for one of the New York City law schools. It’s no secret that Professor Yoshino vastly prefers New York to New Haven. As noted on his website, he already splits his […] -
Book Deals, Books, Jed Rubenfeld, Law Professors, Money
Jed Rubenfeld May Be Hot, But His Book Is Not
Or so says the Wall Street Journal, in a fascinating front-page article about the disappointing sales for the Yale law professor’s debut novel, The Interpretation of Murder. The strikingly handsome Jed Rubenfeld is a con law professor and deputy dean at Yale Law School (as well as a contestant in our Law School Dean hotties […] -
9th Circuit, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, John Demers, Jonathan Cohn, Law Professors, Office of Legal Policy, Parties, Pictures, Rachel Brand, William Birdthistle
Another Dispatch from DFOpalooza
Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, Mrs. Maura O’Scannlain, and two decades’ worth of law clerks and judicial assistants. (We apologize for the less-than-stellar quality of this pic. If you live in the D.C. area and would like to give us a tutorial in digital photography, email us.) Our photo essay about the historic Pioneer Courthouse, in Portland, […] -
Alan Dershowitz, Jews, Laurence Tribe, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Legal Fee Voyeurism, Money
Legal Fee Voyeurism: Burt Neuborne, Five Million Dollar Man
Recently we asked you for juicy gossip about gigantic legal fees. We didn’t expect to receive a response so quickly. From the WSJ Law Blog: NYU Law School professor Burt Neuborne worked for nearly eight years to help Holocaust survivors win a $1.25 billion settlement from Swiss banks accused of helping the Nazis steal Jewish […]
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Law Professors, Law Schools, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Some Legal Academic Salaries
In response to our request for information about law school professor salaries — preferably profs at private schools, since salaries of professors at public law schools are often publicly available — we received a few submissions. We’ll share them with you now, in this latest installment of Skaddenfreude: Totally Gauche Ogling of Other Lawyers’ Incomes. […] -
Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Law Professors, Law Schools, Tax Law, Weddings
Tax Professors in Love
This just in, from TaxProf Blog: Tax Profs Miranda Perry and Vic Fleischer tied the knot Saturday at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, followed by a reception at the Kitchen [Upstairs], a Boulder wine bar. A photograph of the two good professors appears above. Fashion props to Professor Perry for the understated elegance of […] -
Law Professors, Musical Chairs, William Eskridge
Musical Chairs: Bill Eskridge to the Big Apple?
Last week we wrote about rumors of several high-profile professors possibly leaving Yale Law School (or “THE Yale Law School,” as YLS deans like to say). We now hear that the names we mentioned — James Whitman, Alec Stone Sweet, Kenji Yoshino, Reva Siegel and Robert Post — aren’t the only ones thinking of departing. […] -
Ann Althouse, Anna Nicole Smith, Feminism, Law Professors, Non-Sequiturs, Pets, Pictures, Videos, William Birdthistle
Non-Sequiturs: 09.28.06
* We were taught growing up that when someone pays you a compliment, the appropriate response is gratitude. So thank you, QuizLaw! Unlike those grumpy feminists — e.g., Jessica Valenti, adversary of Ann Althouse — we soak up compliments graciously. And we enjoy being objectified. Toward that end, here’s a shirtless photo of us. [QuizLaw] […] -
Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs: What, the Pizza's Not Good Enough to Make Them Stay?
We realize this gossip is several days old. But we don’t check Brian Leiter’s site as often as we should — ’cause we’re always afraid of going there and finding something mildly critical to downright nasty about us. We’re quite good at loathing ourselves; we don’t need others to pitch in. But better late than […] -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Lawyerly Lairs, Nauseating Things, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: Professor Smit's Uptown Mansion
Yesterday we put out a call for submissions for Lawyerly Lairs. We look forward to your responses. In the meantime, here’s some real estate porn that we were able to obtain on our own — since the property in question is for sale. The Schinasi Mansion is the only freestanding single-family mansion in Manhattan. It […] -
Alice Fisher, Federal Judges, Interview Stories, Job Searches, Ken Wainstein, Law Professors, Skaddenfreude, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Weddings, Week in Review
ATL Week in Review: September 24, 2006
* Who is the hottest dean? Your nominations are needed. (At right: A portrait of Howard Dean as a young man. Seriously.) * Who is the Paris Hilton of the federal judiciary? * Are you a professor at a private law school? If so, how much money do you make? * Why are those Florida […]