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David Friedman

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Law professor deep in the weeds. Personal Account. Cats. Consumer law. Legal Ed. Oregon now. Always a Connecticut guy. I post mostly nonsense.


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Ah, I didn’t know you were fully remote, but that entirely makes sense, of course. (I think Covid waiver is over - that’s something I should probably know, but I’ve only been a real associate dean for 5 weeks!)

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You CAN pay them! The rules have changed.

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I think some people are misreading this post / it’s poorly written. I’m not talking about marriage - I’m talking about realists vs fantasists

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Does anyone have any examples of people divorced from reality prevailing over those wedded to it?

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At this point, that could just be the editorial board

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Let’s not “piddle twiddle”!

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Are we watching 1776 this year?

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I also need more sleep and I’m going to stop scheduling events after 8pm.

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I heard a guy say MY NAME IS TUCKER at the dry cleaner and it took me right to this

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A hereditary monarchy is just what we need

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Happy Canada Day, even to all of you silly Ontarians out there

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Do those “student driver” stickers actually antagonize other drivers?

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“Sir, this is a Wendy’s drive through.”

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The marketplace of ideas has never had more deadweight loss

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40 years of watching high school and college debate have thoroughly prepared me to offer my expertise and perspective on tonight’s intellectual festival

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Ha!

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I can reset the clock. It has been zero days since I last saw someone use a shirtless profile picture on LinkedIn.

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Make a band milder The Luke Warm Chilipeppers

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I’m ok with complacency

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He’s getting a horrible teaching schedule now and service on every grueling committee, though.

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That patent belongs to the university

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So, you’re telling me that you took a sabbatical on a deserted island for 15 years and you didn’t write a damn thing?

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Lots and lots of the legal academy floats on money from this particular set of clients. I feel like I should be on the take - am I the only sucker in the academy not on the take?

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You know of what I speak!

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If the dry eraser marker doesn’t work for you, and you put it back, it won’t work for the next professor, either. Which is my way of paying it forward.

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Procrastination is a byproduct of anxiety

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You know the gig!

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Ah, I joined your club!

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We actually have a med mal course!

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More like “I’ve accumulated 35 bosses in one fell swoop”!

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I am now officially the associate dean for academic affairs and administration at my law school. What an unlikely story.

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The California US Senate campaign must absolutely be sizzling.

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Brutal

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Love this

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Lifelong friends, the random draw can work out

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Freshman roommates 1990 Freshman roommates 2024

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A character on a still-running TV series was partially based on me.

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I’m a visiting professor at Yale.

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Headed to my college reunion because professors love to vacation at other colleges.

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@kenwhite.bsky.social Condolences to you and your family. What a wonderful essay you wrote.

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Evergreen

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Noah, you’ve got to give me more than 2 hours to turn this around. Chill. It’s coming off as desperate.

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Noah Feldman has an unorthodox approach to the lateral market and unreasonable expectations for faculty housing.

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So this is how it all ends.

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Every lawyer should be trained in the art of sophistry and we don’t teach the associated skills in law school.

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The Buckner error is salient because it looked like such an easy play -

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Calvin Schiraldi gave up 3 straight two-out hits in the 10th, the final one on an 0-2 count.

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I think you know my style well enough to know that LinkedIn would be the death of my soul

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Sensitive Artist should get more love.

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So then I got this idea about driving a cheesecake truck because I figured at the end of the day you could take home all of leftover cheesecakes home and I LOVE cheesecake

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