Jurisdynamics

The Jurisdynamics Network has received two radically different but equally intriguing new books, both from Oxford University Press . W.A. ...

CPRBlog: House Republicans to hold hearing on climate change, can I get a witness?

Like any educators, law professors need to be open to criticism. We need to find ways to make legal knowledge more accessible and effective,...

Jim Chen, Portfolio Theory as a Pattern of Timeless Moments , available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2254244 : Quantitative finance trace...

Jim Chen, Measuring Market Risk Under Basel II, 2.5, and III: VaR, Stressed VaR, and Expected Shortfall , available at http://ssrn.com/abs...

CPRBlog: The Long Goodbye: On Seeing the Sundarban Islands The Ganges River begins at the foot of the Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayas an...

Sweating the Small Stuff: Indian Villages Plan for Climate Change Cross-posted from CPRBlog . In October, I wrote about the city of Su...

Currier and Ives, Home to Thanksgiving (1867)

Delhi Blues Cross-posted from CPRBlog . Last weekend my son took part in a set of Boy Scout activities with his local Delhi scout troop. On ...

A CBS News profile of Nate Silver, author of 538 . Lest the signal be lost amid the noise , we should now acknowledge one of the mo...

Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson bankrolled Republican candidates and causes in the 2012 election and rolled snake eyes . Recent legal deve...

Gotham Gets It: Mayor Bloomberg Calls for Government Action on Climate Change Cross-posted from CPRBlog . The most solemn commitment borne b...

The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, the...

If you like sparkling diamonds and saffron saris, you will love Surat, India’s bustling, no-nonsense city, some 250 kilometers north of Mumb...

The River Ganges Meets Climate Change VARANASI -- We slip into the river at night, and with an easy stroke, our oarsman moves our boat acros...

Jim Chen, Bioprospect Theory , available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2164848 or http://bit.ly/BioprospectTheory . To be presented at the U...

Yes, walruses are charismatic megafauna, and biodiversity conservation means so much more than that. But it sure is fun to watch a 250-po...

As a child of the Cold War, a time long ago when bedtime stories about the end of the world usually involved nuclear war between East and ...

A scant year after the collapse of its ill-fated merger with AT&T, T-Mobile has announced its intentions to acquire MetroPCS . This o...

I’ll forego reporting on India today to address a new development in the post-Hurricane Katrina litigation: Judge Jerry Smith’s breathless...