lawallover.blogspot.com
Law All Over: March 2012
http://lawallover.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html
Friday, March 30, 2012. Weekly Round-Up for March 30th. As always, here are the links to the weeks best and most interesting stories:. There were, conservatively, 74,205 different columns this week on the Affordable Care Act, and I can't link to them all. Here's Slate's page with ALL their stories on it. Salon explains that in landmark cases, ideology often trumps precedent. The New York Times has a handy interactive guide to the three-day hearing. Here, if you want background. Andrew O'Heir writes a rea...
lawallover.blogspot.com
Law All Over: October 2012
http://lawallover.blogspot.com/2012_10_01_archive.html
Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Norms of Courtship, Part 2. Last week, I wondered when texts became the primary mode of dating communication, whether my generation wants stricter rules to govern dating/courtship, and what role internet dating plays in the whole shebang. Today, to put it bluntly, I want to ask exactly how much one ought to be able to know about a potential date's sexual habits before ever going on an actual date. Before I really get into it, some actual questions people answer on OKCupid:.
lawallover.blogspot.com
Law All Over: Mass Incarceration and "The Code of the Street"
http://lawallover.blogspot.com/2014/12/mass-incarceration-and-code-of-street.html
Sunday, December 7, 2014. Mass Incarceration and "The Code of the Street". Noticeably absent from Code of the Street. Is a sufficient discussion of how mass incarceration affects the kinds of communities that Elijah Anderson was examining. In particular, chapters four and five are titled. The Decent Daddy;. When Elijah Anderson analyzes the appeal of the street life, he discusses the attractiveness of the drug trade to these populations. He notes that, although it is illegal,. Alex D. Jakle. December 11,...
lawallover.blogspot.com
Law All Over: May 2012
http://lawallover.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html
Monday, May 28, 2012. Comedy at the Boundaries. aka "Comedy". On Friday I included a link to Timothy Bella's piece on George Carlin's "7 Dirty Words.". Prepared to make cultural critics of these guys. The role comedy plays in figuring out where funny becomes macabre becomes simply disturbing exists in the very way we talk about jokes. What line exists between a joke that makes you smile but shake your head - maybe utter an "oh, man" - and one that darkens your face and has you simply say "too far? Michig...
lawallover.blogspot.com
Law All Over: August 2012
http://lawallover.blogspot.com/2012_08_01_archive.html
Monday, August 27, 2012. Books, Sunshine, Cards, and Nudity: Notes from the North. I'm fresh back from vacation (Yes, another one. what? Well, how is it my fault you aren't an academic? This time a week on the northern shores of Lake Huron, away from it all with my father, brother and uncle. There we were, four men surrounded by water, miles by boat from the nearest other human, having with us only what we had brought. Leave behind. Even for just five days, it was wonderful to be freed from the littl...
lawallover.blogspot.com
Law All Over: November 2014
http://lawallover.blogspot.com/2014_11_01_archive.html
Monday, November 17, 2014. Regulators are People Too. 8220;Legal Readings,” p. 206). After the financial collapse of 2008, a confidential report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York revealed a culture that was too risk averse. The Fed went on a hiring spree to create an outspoken New Guard of bank examiners (Bernstein). Like any cultural shift, this caused a lot of friction. Was the New Guard’s confrontational style damaging the Fed’s credibility? Was the Old Guard stuck in the pocket of big banks?
lawallover.blogspot.com
Law All Over: September 2014
http://lawallover.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html
Tuesday, September 9, 2014. The Open Classroom Initiative. So what exactly am I trying to do with the blog's new direction? What am I trying to accomplish by bringing my students and my external readers together through this medium? It starts with the material for this semester's class: Law, Culture, and Identity. I'll end this explanation/manifesto by asking all of you - whether student or outside reader - to get others involved in this who you think will enjoy what we're doing. Parents, siblings, c...
lawallover.blogspot.com
Law All Over: December 2014
http://lawallover.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
Sunday, December 7, 2014. Mass Incarceration and "The Code of the Street". Noticeably absent from Code of the Street. Is a sufficient discussion of how mass incarceration affects the kinds of communities that Elijah Anderson was examining. In particular, chapters four and five are titled. The Decent Daddy;. When Elijah Anderson analyzes the appeal of the street life, he discusses the attractiveness of the drug trade to these populations. He notes that, although it is illegal,. Alex D. Jakle. In analyzing...
lawallover.blogspot.com
Law All Over: July 2012
http://lawallover.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html
Thursday, July 19, 2012. Weekly Round-Up for July 20th. Richard Hasen says modern campaign corruption makes Nixon look like a nun (or something to that effect): Worse than Watergate. The final (I think? Installment of Slate's Constitution series: We the People of Slate . Breaking news, everyone, Michelle Bachmann is a raving loon: Bachmann’s Grotesque Attack on Clinton Aide Huma Abedin. Bachmann Hunts for Traitorous Muslims; McCain Shames Her. Michele Bachmann’s hateful cronies. Alex D. Jakle. More cover...
resipsaetc.wordpress.com
50 Shades of Grey: I Am Noticing Your Pancakes with Irony | Res Ipsa Etc.
https://resipsaetc.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/50-shades-of-grey-i-am-noticing-your-pancakes-with-irony
The Thing Speaks for Whatever. Booze - it's what's for dinner! Even My Books Got Books. 50 Shades of Grey: I Am Noticing Your Pancakes with Irony. In Back Door Book Club B! Tches 4: Back in the Saddle. Food - it's what's for dinner. I Chat Therefore I Am. Polls Hypos and Other Imaginings. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. On July 26, 2012. We got over-enthused about sharks, if such a thing is possible. This week in Fifty Shades of Grey. Keep an eye out for the poll! Look at how I am home SO FAST? IT IS SO BAD.
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT