The Supremes took on some of our most pressing social issues this term: abortion, affirmative action, corruption, and immigration. While there were disappointments (a tie in the immigration case leaves us all wanting for a ruling on executive power, and puts many immigrant families at risk of eventual deportation), there were decisions that I cheered. […]
January 6, 2014 at 2:12 pm
I have written about the federal investigation of JP Morgan’s “Sons and Daughters” program before, but as the coverage continues I thought it was time to revisit. As this article details, in late 2009 the JP Morgan Chase executives in Hong Kong were feeling the pressure. They had lost out on several lucrative deals, and […]
January 8, 2013 at 2:04 pm
Apparently Lindsay Lohan wants my job.
September 9, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Here is another interesting article about why people cheat, and how students are cheating in increasing numbers. My experiences are in line with the discussion in the article about how smart students now cheat to thrive, rather than the students in the past that would cheat to survive. I am sure I haven’t caught most […]
August 28, 2012 at 9:05 am
Charlie Sheen made “winning” infamous. But he was really just a reflection of our society’s obsession with winning. I spend a lot of time reading about why people lie, cheat and steal. My work this summer on a new Ethics course led me to the realization this obsession was borne in my childhood, where I […]
I would like to thank Catherine Greig’s attorney for setting women back about three decades today. Greig is Whitey Bulger’s long time girlfriend, the one that fled with Whitey and hid with him for sixteen years while the federal authorities supposedly looked for him. (I find this whole claim a bit dubious because of Whitey’s […]
Last year my family took a vacation to Disney World. I am pro-Disney, love every cheesy over the top thing about the place, and would go back annually if my husband would allow it (he won’t). But one week in Disney World is full of visual evidence of America’s obesity problem. Here in the Northeast […]
Those of you that had me in the Spring 2012 semester are familiar with the case of Garrett Bauer, who pled guilty to insider trading. He was sentenced yesterday to nine years in a federal prison. Here is an interesting article talking about the case. What is your reaction to his sentence?
I recently had a student lie to me. I am quite confident that students lie to me all the time, but I caught this lie. I took it very seriously, although the underlying reason for the lie was not something all that important. Here is why: despite the daily barrage of stories of executives cheating, […]
April 22, 2012 at 4:40 pm
The weird thing about being a lawyer and an ethics professor is that bad news is great news for me. So today, when splashed across the New York Times was the headline, “Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle”, I was giddy for a split second. Then I felt guilty for […]
