In addition to the books I have on my first shot at a summer reading list, I am adding the following: An Odyssey in Print: Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It, Arthur Herman. I was skeptical of Lane's...

I don't have a summer reading list! Not yet, anyways. So while you all are procrastinating from working, take two seconds and tell me what I should include. Legal, non-legal, fiction, non-fiction, book, not book, it's all good. So far on my list is the following: Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer. The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed...

Starting out on one's own is an option that is increasingly ignored by new law school grads. Even if you're not thinking about doing it one day, I doubt it's a bad idea to figure out the nuts and bolts of the business of law. I couldn't provide a more comprehensive list than the one for those who want to...

Intrigued by a friend's recent description of depression rates among various populations* -- in order, married men (happily or not), single women, unhappily married women, happily married women -- I picked up a book that's been in my "in-box" for a bit. It's Wifework by Susan Maushart. It's a quick read and quite interesting. Maushart describes the inequality that exists...

Bruce was right - it has all been said before! Here's a short list of law review articles discussing the issue. Links are to Westlaw (subscription required). Fred Rodell, Goodbye to Law Reviews, 23 Va. L. Rev. 38, 45 (1936) ("Maybe one of these days the law reviews, or some of them, will have the nerve to shoot for higher...