Sunday, June 26, 2022

Are Legal Lessons Learned In The Trenches More Valuable Than Those Learned In Law School?

 Steve Wen Terry Yarra … happy 6 and 5


Notable and interesting journalism for your weekend

22 don’t-miss pieces of journalism — about the Supreme Court, gun laws, iconic films and more — to read and watch this weekend


The Twelve review – Australian courtroom drama is tepidly interesting


HAPPY 119TH BIRTHDAY:  On this day in 1903, Eric Arthur Blair, better known to us as George Orwell, was born in Motihari, Bengal, British India.


       Finnegans Wakes review 

       The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Patrick O'Neill's Finnegans WakesTales of Translation, recently from the University of Toronto Press


Rowan Atkinson: ‘In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything’


Are Legal Lessons Learned In The Trenches More Valuable Than Those Learned In Law School?



Discovery of ‘hidden world’ under Antarctic ice has scientists ‘jumping for joy’ Lve Science


Markets Are Losing the Anchor of a GenerationBloomberg. The deck: “Inflation has undermined the credibility of central banks. That explains how bond yields can be rising even as recession fears mount.”




 Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, and courts aren’t ready to confront the legal quagmire of DNA theft – Liza Vertinsky and Yaniv Heled, are law professors who study how emerging technologies like genetic sequencing are regulated. They believe that growing public interest in genetics has increased the likelihood that genetic paparazzi with DNA collection kits may soon become as ubiquitous as ones with cameras. While courts have for the most part managed to evade dealing with the complexities of surreptitious DNA collection and testing of public figures, they won’t be able to avoid dealing with it for much longer. And when they do, they are going to run squarely into the limitations of existing legal frameworks when it comes to genetics.


Annual rankings return Austria’s capital to first place, as former title-holder Auckland tumbles to 34th and Ukraine war sees eastern cities slump


My Surreal Vienna



       Marie Darrieussecq Q & A 

       In the Hindustan Times Arunima Mazumdar has a Q & A with the author, in ‘I was reborn as a writer’ - Marie Darrieussecq, author, Pig Tales

       New to me re. Pig Tales: "Jean-Luc Godard bought the novel rights as soon as it came out, in September 1996". (But, yeah, it didn't work out.) 


Why Australia is getting amazing sunsets of vivid red and orange seen all over Instagram - and how they will continue for another YEAR