brazenandtenured- This is Not a Law Review ArticleBy Pierre Schlag * March 31, 2016 Keywords: law review article, absurd, cass sunstein Abstract: This short piece [does not] describe the form, structure and vexations of the law review article qua scholarly artifact. It also [does not] contain Professor … Continue reading →Pierre Schlag
- The Law Review ArticleJust posted on ssrn and bepress: The Law Review Article By Pierre Schlag * March 11, 2016 Keywords: law review article, absurd, cass sunstein, Abstract: This very short piece describes the form, structure and vexations of the law review … Continue reading →brazenandtenured
- American Absurd(Pre-order from Amazon)Filed under: Experimental, Nature/Culture, Politics, Uncategorized Tagged: absurd, academia, culture, law, politicsPierre Schlag
- Dear Black People, Part TwoNine African Americans—a beloved pastor, a track coach, and a grandmother among them—were murdered by a White racist who, in his own words, hoped to spark a civil war and get his country back. It is obvious that the killer/terrorist … Continue reading →Sarah Krakoff
- Dear Black PeopleDear Black People, I just wanted to write to say I am sorry about Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and the others too numerous too list. About Brown, the process that resulted in a decision not to indict Darren … Continue reading →Sarah Krakoff
- Coase’s Conception of Production Factor Costs (and the Coasean Challenge)Here I want to lay out Coase’s conception of production factor costs as articulated in The Problem of Social Cost. Coase’s conception of production factor costs has very significant implications for what might be called the “Coasean Challenge”–a challenge which in my view has been … Continue reading →Pierre Schlag
- Coase’s Critique of the Neoclassical Model–Coase Minus the Coase TheoremCoase Minus the Coase Theorem, is among other things an attempt to retrieve the meaning of Ronald Coase’s famous article, The Problem of Social Cost, 3 J. L. & Econ. 1 (1960) As I try to show, Coase advanced a … Continue reading →Pierre Schlag
- Earth Day, Dog Whistles, and Zero Sum PoliticsThe Supreme Court’s decision today in Schuette v. Bamn would seem to have little to do with Earth Day. The Court, in a fractured majority decision, upheld Michigan’s voter-enacted ban on race based affirmative action programs in state institutions, including … Continue reading →Sarah Krakoff
- Travels in America, Part OneI was on the Atlanta-Greensboro leg of a trip to Wake Forest University for a conference on Law and Violence. The man seated next to me and I struck up a conversation, starting with the usual small talk. “What takes … Continue reading →Sarah Krakoff
- The Anthropocene: Everything and Nothing NewWe have been kind of quiet here at brazenandtenured. Maybe it’s better that way. A friend of mine once disclosed that his goal as a professor was to write as little as possible as well as possible. Most of the … Continue reading →Sarah Krakoff
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Earth Day, Dog Whistles, and Zero Sum Politics
The Supreme Court’s decision today in Schuette v. Bamn would seem to have little to do with Earth Day. The Court, in a fractured majority decision, upheld Michigan’s voter-enacted ban on race based affirmative action programs in state institutions, including … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, environment, environmental justice, law, nature, politics, race
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The Anthropocene: Everything and Nothing New
We have been kind of quiet here at brazenandtenured. Maybe it’s better that way. A friend of mine once disclosed that his goal as a professor was to write as little as possible as well as possible. Most of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropocene, climate change, culture, nature, philosophy, politics
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Sustainability and Equity in a Climate Changed World
A small group of environmental law professors gathered recently for a two-day workshop on the concept and practice of sustainability. I was asked to lead a discussion about the relationship between sustainability and equity. The group decided to take the … Continue reading
Lance Armstrong and Our Illusions
Lance Armstrong “gave up his fight against doping accusations.” This is how it is being reported, based on Armstrong’s bristly and defiant letter of concession. Presumably, Armstrong thinks that he maintains plausible deniability (and millions of dollars in sponsorships) this … Continue reading
Wild-ish: Self and Community on the Trail
A lot of wilderness narratives go like this. A man walks alone into the woods/desert/mountains. He confronts nature in all its glory and terror. He barely escapes grave danger and returns to tell the tale or/He does not escape grave … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, culture, environment, nature, romanticism
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Too Much Information, Not Enough Knowledge
If you wanted to disappear, where would you go? A small town in southern Utah is a good bet, at least according to its reclusive inhabitants. Yet they know that their days of being off of the information grid are … Continue reading
Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?
So reads the title of a recent opinion piece in the New York Times by Professor Eddy Nahmias. It warrants a bit of attention if not for its substance, then at least for what it illustrates about the contemporary state of … Continue reading
