Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

The Faculty Senate here at U.Miami has awarded me the Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award for 2020. There will be an award ceremony on Monday, April 13, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. somewhere on the Coral Gables Campus, details TBA.

The letter notifying me of the award says that,

The Faculty Senate created this award on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Faculty Charter. This prestigious award acknowledges outstanding contributions to scholarship by individual faculty members. …

As a true visionary scholar in the law profession, your striking record of achievement has paved new paths significant in our current legal and social fields.

And there’s a medal, too.

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Apps are Dying?

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

Two long-time Android apps that I used to use a lot bit the dust recently: Hipmunk, the airfare aggregator is just dead. Tapingo, the skip-the-line-order-ahead app for campus dining, has been subsumed into the Borg that is Grubhub. (Weirdly, most people around here pronounced it “tap-ingo” while I perhaps wrongly said “tap-n-go”. Guess that’s totally academic now.)

Coincidence? Or have we reached a new stage in the lifecycle of even established apps?

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We Had an Earthquake?

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

Apparently, the earthquake between Jamaica and Cuba this afternoon was so strong (7.7!) it shook up parts of Miami. Various tall buildings downtown were evacuated as a safety precaution.

I didn’t feel a thing in my third-floor office in Coral Gables.

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The Apocalypse Will Be Televised

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Michael Froomkin

Graphical Real-Time Map of Confirmed Cases of Coronavirus: Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Global Cases (by JHU CSSE)

Above as of Jan 27, 2020 9 am EST. The map is real-time in the sense that it’s updated when new info is provided by authorities. It can also be adjusted to show any country or city, and a timeline and scale of contagion.