Author
By Michelle Meyer [This is off-the-cuff live blogging, so apologies for any errors, typos, etc] First up is Mark Lange from Eli Lilly (who notes that he is here in his personal capacity only!), speaking…
By Michelle Meyer Update: This American Life has made a clarification. Please see this post for more. Let me begin by saying how much I absolutely adore This American Life. I listen to it religiously. I…
By Michelle Meyer I woke this morning to the very sad news that legal philosopher and NYU law professor Ronald Dworkin died in London early this morning of leukemia, at the age of 81. I’m…
By Michelle Meyer As most readers are probably aware, the past few years have seen considerable media and clinical interest in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive, neurodegenerative condition linked to, and thought to result…
By Michelle Meyer So, one thing they say about being on the law teaching market is that you likely will never before have enjoyed — and, less happily, will likely never again enjoy — so much…
By Michelle Meyer Updated below Like most parents, after learning about the latest mass school shooting this morning, my thoughts immediately went to my own kindergartener. And of course, like most reading this blog, I…
By Michelle Meyer As most readers of this blog well know, health disparities of various kinds are rampant in the U.S. — in obesity, infant mortality and morbidity, cardiovascular health, and many other areas. In…
By Michelle Meyer A while back, over at PrawfsBlawg, Martin Pritikin had a useful post collecting advice for legal academics looking to break into increasingly popular empirical legal studies (ELS). As Jeremy Blumenthal notes in…
By Michelle Meyer In legal scholarship and education, innovation law and policy is virtually synonymous with intellectual property in general, and with patent law in particular. This is curious and, I think, misguided. We expend…
