Recent Bluessky Posts- Amidst all the darkness, a small piece of good news courtesy of Judge Vargas of the SDNY. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u... August 24, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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- How practice-ready a 1st year associate from any law school can be depends on if they came straight from law school or clerked or the equivalent. Senior people tend to forget what it is to be new. I would worry more about someone who had so many 'skills' courses they didn't know much actual law. August 24, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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Author Archives: Michael Froomkin
Everybody’s Doing It
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I’d Really Rather Hear About Her Healthcare Plan
Much that is rancid about the state of mainstream American journalism is exemplified by this article in today's Washington Post, Hillary Clinton's Tentative Dip Into New Neckline Territory, which begins,
There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
It's enough to make you shrill.
Posted in Politics: US: 2008 Elections
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I Get The Oddest Emails
In addition to the hundreds of spams with foreign character sets and/or random texts designed to overwhelm spam filters, in addition to the phishing and the pills and the various ads, I also get a lot of mail from PR and advertising lists I never subscribed to. Much of it is political, created by people trying to push info to bloggers. Some of it, the more welcome part, is academic — calls for papers or conference announcements. But some of it is inexplicable. Take this example from today's inbox:
Attached, please find CAPWIP's Invitation and Information Sheet for the forthcoming 8th Training on “Making Governance Gender Responsive (MGGR)”, which will be held on November 12-19, 2007 in Manila, Philippines.
How, I wonder, did I get on that list? It's a good cause, I'm sure, but I'm not going to Manila for a week of it.
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Internet Radio Hangs by a Thread
Copyfight: the politics of IP has the gory details at When is a Reprieve Not a Reprieve..
The music didn't die last week. But now it's being subject to carefully calibrated extortion.
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Fischl on the University of Miami Strike
Former colleague Michael Fischl, now of the University of Connecticut School of Law, has a new article up at SSRN, The Other Side of the Picket Line: Contract, Democracy, and Power in a Law School Classroom which will appear in 31 New York University Review of Law & Social Change (2007).
Abstract:
This essay – from a forthcoming symposium on “teaching from the left” in the NYU Review of Law & Social Change – offers an account of the successful union organizing campaign among custodial and landscaping workers at the University of Miami during the 2005-06 academic year, focusing in particular on the role played by faculty during the course of the campaign. It examines a fractious debate generated by faculty who held classes off campus in order to support the striking workers and the author's own decision to put the question of whether to honor the picket line to a vote of his students. It offers an analysis of the pattern of argument that emerged – with opponents of off-campus classes invoking the rhetoric of contract and supporters invoking the rhetoric of democracy – and of what that pattern may reveal about the nature of ideological conflict in contemporary campus culture.
An engaging and thoughtful essay that will be of interest to contracts teachers, labor lawyers, and union supporters generally.
Also of interest is the post-posting history of this article, in which anti-union Google ads appeared automagically on SSRN alongside the article. See Google Ads on SSRN—and Some Odd (shall we say) Juxtapositions for details.
Posted in U.Miami: Strike'06
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Bush Administration *Literally* Makes Americans Sick
The Gavel » Blog Archive » Oversight Hearing on “Toxic Trailers” in the Gulf Coast
Henry Waxman is having hearings about FEMA's provision of toxic trailers to Katerina victims.
Another FEMA official wrote, the office of general counsel has advised “We do not do testing, because it would imply FEMA's ownership of this issue.” Early in the process, due to the perseverance of a pregnant mother with a four month old child, FEMA did test one occupied trailer. The results showed that their trailer had formaldehyde levels 75 times higher than the maximum workplace exposure levels recommended by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The mother evacuated the trailer. FEMA then stopped testing other trailers.
They knew, and they knew they didn't want to know.
Much more, with videos, at The Gavel.
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