Gens Una Sumus
From a footnote in my Property casebook regarding the fact that some jurisdictions allow for very long leases:
Yale University still receives annual rents from 999-year leases of Connecticut farmland executed in the 1700s. Fred Strebeigh, Yale’s 999-Year Leases, Yale Alumni Mag., Dec. 1976, at 29.
I clearly need to look up that issue of YAM.
I got a call from my friend Neeraj Singh last weekend. I was so excited by the news that only subcite training for the Blackletter Law Journal an entire week later brought me down enough to finally write up this glorious information.
The chess club has been packed for the last two weeks. So much so, […]
Yale Football beat Cornell yesterday in Ithaca, 21 to 9. I missed the game because Vlad (who’s actually studying at Cornell now and should probably change the title of his blog) and I were having tea at TeaLuxe. I would say more, but I didn’t listen in on the game. And besides, I’ve been holding […]
So I’m in the middle of doing laundry for the first time since my arrival in Cambridge (which, by the way, serves only to indicate that I have far too many clothes for my 8 by 12 cell room).
Now, back at Saybrook, there were more dryers than washers, so I assumed the same was true […]
I’m listening right now to 960 WELI’s (sorry WYBC, I couldn’t figure out the site) live online coverage of San Diego @ Yale. If you’re on a Mac, you may need this little bit from Flip4Mac.
San Diego is up 7 - 0 at the end of the first quarter.
Since this is my first post in […]
Quick Link: a rare political post from Hugh MacLeod.
Food for thought:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Durrah
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Mohamed_Al-Durah
And while on the subject of the Arab-Israeli conflict, I’ll point out that my friend (and fellow Yalie) Aatif Iqbar often has interesting things to say on the issue, including this recent post. Aatif may not have clever cartoons with his writing, but how on […]
I wasn’t planning on writing anything to commemorate 9/11, and I’m still not going to. I do figure, though, that I should bring attention to this amazing cartoon from Hugh MacLeod (in case you haven’t noticed, I’m addicted to his cartoons).
I will also point out that this is not categorized under Soapbox, since it is […]
I started 1776 a little while ago (though I don’t think I’ve indicated that yet on my sidebar), and the other night I was inclined after reading in it to look something up in the Declaration of Independence. In particular, McCullough referred to the United States of America as having been established by the Declaration. […]
Two quick posts during my first week of classes (this is the first). It’s not my usual idea of what to post about regarding chess, but I thought it was pretty cool, so I’m showing off this link. Discovered via http://del.icio.us/tag/chess.
I’m already moved into Cambridge (though not quite ensconced; thanks Max for the new word), and my first post since my arrival really should have been about HLS. I’m sure I’ll get to that some other time, seeing that I have three years for my sentence until my degree. But in the meantime, I saw […]
Les Miserables (Modern Library) by Victor Hugo
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company–and won by Gerald M. Stern
