by Karl Coplan | Mar 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
by Karl Coplan As we watch with horror the events unfolding at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, it is clear that (as with the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year) we are witnessing not just an engineering failure, but a failure of a system of...
by John Nolon | Mar 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
by John Nolon In its late February article, entitled “As They Ponder Reforms, Law Deans Find Schools Remarkably Resistant to Change,” the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that law faculty use the “lecture-based model because it is cost-effective and convenient,”...
by Karl Coplan | Mar 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
by Karl Coplan The New York Times’ excellent series on the environmental issues associated with hydrofracking exposes a long-exploited loophole in the regulation of industrial wastes. As the Times article points out in the case of fracking fluids, these wastes...