Thursday, June 18, 2009

Fourth Annual Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation

Big news if you're a fan of arbitration and mediation conferences: Fordham Law to Host Fourth Annual Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation. From the Fordham Law news page:
The Fourth Annual Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation, at Fordham Law School June 15 and 16, will bring together leading international arbitrators, mediators, practitioners, and scholars to discuss contemporary issues in the field.
Topics will include Theory and Philosophy of International Arbitration, Arbitrator Ethics, Investor-State Arbitration/Mediation, Mediation in the Context of Arbitration, and Damages in International Commercial Arbitration.

So that should be a blast, right?

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

SPLENDIDBAUBLE v. CASEY

Our summer job involves writing, and we just figured out a surefire way to impress our bosses. We are going to simply begin every assignment with, "Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt."

Monday, May 31, 2004

IRAQ CASUALTIES

Every Monday we post updated figures for U.S. casualties in Iraq. You can find them on your own here.

As of today:

U.S. troops killed: 814 (up 17 from last week)
U.S. troops wounded in action: 4,682 (up 158 from last week)

In the past month, 60 U.S. soldiers have been killed; approximately 800 have been wounded.

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

WE F%#KING HATE THE WRITING COMPETITION

There. We got that off our chests. Now we'll go back to work. F%#k.

Monday, May 24, 2004

IRAQ CASUALTY UPDATE

Every Monday we post updated figures for U.S. casualties in Iraq. You can find them on your own here. (We did not publish an update last week.)

As of today:

U.S. troops killed: 797 (up 26 from two weeks ago)
U.S. troops wounded in action: 4,524 (up 391 from two weeks ago)

In the past month, 76 U.S. soldiers have been killed; 660 have been wounded.

Sunday, May 23, 2004

WHAT'S LONG AND HARD AND FULL OF ...

Which brings us to the topic of this year's Fordham Law writing competition. Which we are forbidden from discussing. With anyone. Even you.

Thursday, May 20, 2004

LET LOOSE FROM THE NOOSE THAT'S KEPT US HANGING ABOUT

We're back after a long post-finals decompression. At first we felt bad about neglecting our little blog for so long. But when we checked our site visits reports, we discovered a curious thing: traffic to our website actually increased during our absence. More people came to splendidbauble.blogspot.com when we published nothing than when we were publishing almost every day. We can think of no explanation for this.

Anyway. We are tempted, now that we've made it through our first year, to offer various observations and pieces of advice for 1Ls. But we think we will hold off on that until we receive our grades. We have definite ideas about the way things should be done. First semester went very well for us. But this second semester, it nearly killed us, what with civil procedure and our strange con law professor and all. So we won't subject you to our thoughts on how to conduct your first year until we know whether what we did worked.

In the meantime, we're going to be concentrating on how to make this blog look better. Let us know if you have any ideas about where to find a good template.

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

JUST IN TIME, TOO, SINCE OUR "LIQUOR IN THE FRONT, POKER IN THE REAR" UNDERGRAD FRAT T-SHIRT IS ABOUT WORN OUT

The new spring fashions are hitting the Fordham runways. Get yours while you still can!

Monday, May 10, 2004

MONDAY WAR REPORT

Every Monday we post updated figures for U.S. casualties in Iraq. You can find them on your own here.

As of today:

U.S. troops killed: 771 (up 17 from last week; up 69 from three weeks ago)
U.S. troops wounded in action: 4,133 (up 864 from three weeks ago)

Friday, May 07, 2004

MOVE ALONG ... NOTHING TO SEE HERE

Finals have us down. But allow us to direct you here. Or here.