Tempest Fugit, and it fugits fast.
Well over a decade ago this website was extremely popular with the small children in my life. Now it takes… Read More »Tempest Fugit, and it fugits fast.
Events
IP, IT, and Internet Law and Policy Conferences and Colloquia
JZ’s New Book on SSRN
Personally, I bought the hard copy (I like bound books more than stacks of copy paper), but kudos go out… Read More »JZ’s New Book on SSRN
IP Notes from All Over
New and upcoming things: First: The excellent IP team at American University’s Washington College of Law prompts me to remind… Read More »IP Notes from All Over
Law and Lakoff at Pitt
The PR about this conference is going out way late, so I volunteered to multiply the message a bit: Next… Read More »Law and Lakoff at Pitt
Yale & Reputation Economies
Like several other folks who blog, I went up to Yale’s Reputation Economies conference last weekend. Plenty of others have offered thoughts about the conference (including Frank here). Eric Goldman has his own thoughts and a good list of links to other blogs and Rebecca Tushnet very helpfully posted panel-by-panel summaries.
It was an interesting conference, but before offering brief reactions, I should say that the most interesting thing for me was seeing Yale again. It was the first time I had been back to New Haven in over a decade, which was too long. I went up with my father (who is Y ’63) and we walked around the campus quite a bit. Unfortunately, I missed the two big things I was looking forward to. My old residential college, Jonathan Edwards (sux et veritas) is being renovated and the incomparable Doodle was closed. But I got to see the rest of the campus, and though it was slightly more plush, it was somehow pleasant to see how much was the same, at least in the vicinity of JE and the law school.
Though I rarely stepped foot in the law school back in the late 80’s, it is, like most of the rest of Yale, a truly gorgeous building. It was so striking that it made me wonder what influence that type of architecture might have on the legal education that takes place there. Personally, I often associate knowledge with places. Some of the plays of Shakespeare are hard to think of apart from some of the buildings where I read them and listed to lectures about them. So I imagine that some of the Yale Law students must associate their initial forays into Holmes and Cardozo with the Gothic grandeur of the building.
Come to think of it, a disproportionate number of Yale law students become professors. I suppose we shouldn’t ascribe that to architecture alone, but the school does seem a bit like a cathedral of learning. Might that not influence the way students perceive the object of study? (A point of comparison suggested by a friend: what would Harry Potter’s education have been divorced from the imagined architecture of Hogwarts?)
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