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Weekend Blog Roundup

Will Baude discusses the constitutional law of boats; Brian Leiter notes a report on entry-level law school hires and updates his open letter to law bloggers about US News & World Report Rankings; Eric Posner asks whether Russia's annexation of Crimea would violate international law and has a guest post from Mitu Gulati on Ukraine's "odious debts."

Tuesday/Wednesday Blog Round-up

Will Baude has two posts on U.S. v. Maloney; Eric Posner has two more posts on Ukraine, one on the relationship of international force rules to the frequency of wars,  and a response to Baude's most recent originalism post; and Brian Leiter looks at declining 1L enrollment numbers.

Recent Faculty Blog Roundup

Eric Posner looks at the growing crisis in Ukraine in a series of posts; Brian Leiter has a poll on New York Times v. Sullivan fifty years later; Will Baude posts his latest discussion with Eric Posner on originalism; Richard Epstein weighs in on the executive branch's dealings with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; and Richard Posner and Gary Becker discuss ending the embargo on Cuba.

Monday/Tuesday Blog Roundup

Will Baude is impressed by a paper on originalism and interracial marriage and notes a response to his originalism debate with Eric Posner; Posner himself responds to a paper arguing thatapplying cost-benefit analysis to financial regulation is a mistake; and Brian Leiter discusses the NLJ 250 rankings and notes the passing of Cornell's Theodore Eisenberg.

Leiter on Anastaplo and New NALP Report

Brian Leiter notes the passing of George Anastaplo (UChicago Law class of '51) and the latest report on law firm hiring.

What Courses Should Law Students Take?

Eric Posner and Brian Leiter both note a new survey of Harvard Law's largest employers regarding which courses they think law students should take.

Weekend Blog Roundup

On Law School Reports, Brian Leiter notes a new preface to his book Why Tolerate Religion? and price competition among law schools in Kansas City; Becker and Posner look at whether or not excess college enrollments are a myth; Eric Posner looks at the campaign contributions of Obama's ambassadors; and Will Baude muses on SCOTUS and same-sex marriage, Cass Sunstein's new book, and SCOTUS's requirement that one need be a lawyer to argue in front of them.

Leiter: "A dozen years out, most law school graduates glad they went"

On Law School Reports, Brian Leiter notes a new study of recent law school graduates' satisfaction with the experience.

Leiter on Arthurs and Taslitz

On Law School reports, Brian Leiter links to a talk on legal education by "one of Canada's most eminent legal scholars" and notes the passing of one of America's [EDIT: the latter link is actually by Dan Filler].

Leiter on Tulane's New President and YLS Faculty Reaction to ABA & "Experiential Learning"

On Law School Reports, Brian Leiter calls Tulane's new President, former Penn Law Dean Mike Fitts, "a lucky catch," and notes that a number of Yale Law faculty have written to urge the ABA not to impose an "experiential" learning requirement.