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‎November 9 (Simon Lazarus)

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Trent Colbert: The Trap House Party (Yale Law) */

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‎Trent Colbert: The Trap House Party (Yale Law)

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‎October 31, 2021

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 *[https://fedsoc.org/conferences/2021-national-lawyers-convention#agenda-item-classrooms-curricula-and-the-law Akhil Amar] strong statements.
-*The problem of how to  get a professor to take the unpleasant (for a scholar) job of  Dean of Yale Law School bring to mind Ayres and Gertner's idea of penalty defaults. (Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules, Ian Ayres and Robert Gertner, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Oct., 1989), pp. 87-130.
+*The problem of how to  get a professor to take the unpleasant (for a scholar) job of  Dean of Yale Law School bring to mind Ayres and Gertner's idea of penalty defaults. (Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules, Ian Ayres and Robert Gertner, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Oct., 1989), pp. 87-130.<br>
-Their idea is that contract law should say that if the two parties are lazy and don't include a clause saying what to do if a certain kind of contingency arises, e.g. which state's law is to be used to interpret it, the court should use a "penalty default", e.g., use the law of Bolivia. That threat will  induce the parties to make better contracts.
+Their idea is that contract law should say that if the two parties are lazy and don't include a clause saying what to do if a certain kind of contingency arises, e.g. which state's law is to be used to interpret it, the court should use a "penalty default", e.g., use the law of Bolivia. That threat will  induce the parties to make better contracts. <br>
-Here, the penalty default would be "Renew Heather Gerken as Dean". That is plenty of threat to get someone otherwise reluctant to step up and take the job as Dean.
+Here, the penalty default would be "Renew Heather Gerken as Dean". That is plenty of threat to get someone otherwise reluctant to step up and take the job as Dean.  <br>
-An obvious candidate is Yale Law professor Ian Ayres.
+An obvious candidate is Yale Law professor Ian Ayres. <br>
-They'd want someone good at people skills, with integrity, smart, who loves students and is well-connected. Hmmmm, who could that be?
+They'd want someone good at people skills, with integrity, smart, who loves students and is well-connected. Hmmmm, who could that be? <br>
 Amy Chua for Dean.

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 *[https://fedsoc.org/conferences/2021-national-lawyers-convention#agenda-item-classrooms-curricula-and-the-law Akhil Amar] strong statements.
-* {{Quotation|The problem of how to  get a professor to take the unpleasant (for a scholar) job of  Dean of Yale Law School bring to mind Ayres and Gertner's idea of penalty defaults. (Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules, Ian Ayres and Robert Gertner, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Oct., 1989), pp. 87-130.
+*The problem of how to  get a professor to take the unpleasant (for a scholar) job of  Dean of Yale Law School bring to mind Ayres and Gertner's idea of penalty defaults. (Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules, Ian Ayres and Robert Gertner, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Oct., 1989), pp. 87-130.
 Their idea is that contract law should say that if the two parties are lazy and don't include a clause saying what to do if a certain kind of contingency arises, e.g. which state's law is to be used to interpret it, the court should use a "penalty default", e.g., use the law of Bolivia. That threat will  induce the parties to make better contracts.
 Here, the penalty default would be "Renew Heather Gerken as Dean". That is plenty of threat to get someone otherwise reluctant to step up and take the job as Dean.
 An obvious candidate is Yale Law professor Ian Ayres.
 They'd want someone good at people skills, with integrity, smart, who loves students and is well-connected. Hmmmm, who could that be?
 Amy Chua for Dean.
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	*[https://fedsoc.org/conferences/2021-national-lawyers-convention#agenda-item-classrooms-curricula-and-the-law Akhil Amar] strong statements.		*[https://fedsoc.org/conferences/2021-national-lawyers-convention#agenda-item-classrooms-curricula-and-the-law Akhil Amar] strong statements.
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		+	* {{Quotation\|The problem of how to get a professor to take the unpleasant (for a scholar) job of Dean of Yale Law School bring to mind Ayres and Gertner's idea of penalty defaults. (Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules, Ian Ayres and Robert Gertner, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Oct., 1989), pp. 87-130.
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		+	Their idea is that contract law should say that if the two parties are lazy and don't include a clause saying what to do if a certain kind of contingency arises, e.g. which state's law is to be used to interpret it, the court should use a "penalty default", e.g., use the law of Bolivia. That threat will induce the parties to make better contracts.
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		+	Here, the penalty default would be "Renew Heather Gerken as Dean". That is plenty of threat to get someone otherwise reluctant to step up and take the job as Dean.
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		+	An obvious candidate is Yale Law professor Ian Ayres.
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		+	They'd want someone good at people skills, with integrity, smart, who loves students and is well-connected. Hmmmm, who could that be?
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		+	Amy Chua for Dean. }}
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	*[https://www.thefire.org/court-filing-yales-lawyers-make-surprising-claims-about-the-schools-academic-freedom-promises/ "Court filing: Yale’s lawyers make surprising claims about the school’s academic freedom promises", ] FIRE, Yale University says in court that the Woodward Report does not represent its freedom of speech policy, October 7, 2021.		*[https://www.thefire.org/court-filing-yales-lawyers-make-surprising-claims-about-the-schools-academic-freedom-promises/ "Court filing: Yale’s lawyers make surprising claims about the school’s academic freedom promises", ] FIRE, Yale University says in court that the Woodward Report does not represent its freedom of speech policy, October 7, 2021.
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		+	*[https://fedsoc.org/conferences/2021-national-lawyers-convention#agenda-item-classrooms-curricula-and-the-law Akhil Amar] strong statements.
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 ==November 9 (Simon Lazarus)==
-*[https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/files/11.9.2021-memo-on-the-trap-house-affair.pdf  "Where YLS Has Gone Off The Rails, And What Is Needed To Get Back On Track,"] via Leiter Reports, Simon Lazarus ’67.
+*[https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/files/11.9.2021-memo-on-the-trap-house-affair.pdf  "Where YLS Has Gone Off The Rails, And What Is Needed To Get Back On Track,"] via Leiter Reports, Simon Lazarus ’67, and his [https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/12.1.2021-trap-house-update-003-1.pdf second letter] later in the month.
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 ==November 18 (David Lat on Dean Gerken's letter)==
 *[https://davidlat.substack.com/p/the-yale-law-school-scandals-dean David Lat on Dean Gerken's "I'm Sorry You Feel Bad" letter]

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 ==November 9 (Simon Lazarus)==
 *[https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/files/11.9.2021-memo-on-the-trap-house-affair.pdf  "Where YLS Has Gone Off The Rails, And What Is Needed To Get Back On Track,"] via Leiter Reports, Simon Lazarus ’67.
 ==Miscellaneous==
 *[https://www.thefire.org/court-filing-yales-lawyers-make-surprising-claims-about-the-schools-academic-freedom-promises/ "Court filing: Yale’s lawyers make surprising claims about the school’s academic freedom promises", ]  FIRE, Yale University says in court that the Woodward Report does not represent its freedom of speech policy,  October 7, 2021.

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 ==   Trent Colbert: The Trap House Party   (Yale Law)==
-*October 13: [https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-yale-law-student-sent-a-lighthearted-email-inviting-classmates-to-his-trap-house-the-school-is-now-calling-him-to-account/ First Story--''Washington Free Beacon'']
+*October 13: [https://freebeacon.com/campus/a-yale-law-student-sent-a-lighthearted-email-inviting-classmates-to-his-trap-house-the-school-is-now-calling-him-to-account/ First Story--''Washington Free Beacon'']: (NALSA is the Native American Law School Association)
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 ==October 27, Wednesday==
 *[https://www.theblaze.com/news/yale-law-school-student-accused-of-racism-no-apology?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter "Yale Law School student bucks outrage crowd who accused him of racism over party invitation,"] ''The Blaze'', CHRIS ENLOE. Rehash, but original.
 ==Miscellaneous==
 *[https://www.thefire.org/court-filing-yales-lawyers-make-surprising-claims-about-the-schools-academic-freedom-promises/ "Court filing: Yale’s lawyers make surprising claims about the school’s academic freedom promises", ]  FIRE, Yale University says in court that the Woodward Report does not represent its freedom of speech policy,  October 7, 2021.