Professor of Law, University of Arkansas. Admiralty and Maritime Law, Corporate, and M&A. Real Christmas tree enthusiast.

Fayetteville, AR
Joined March 2013
True Story: One time I got a law school Contracts exam that contained no capital letters, punctuation, or paragraphs.
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Robert Anderson retweeted
did my interpreting signs in the lecture today
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This checks out. Delaware still faces an existential threat to its chartering business.
🚨 SOFTBANK’S OPENAI- AND NVIDIA-BACKED AI INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANY LEFT DELAWARE FOR TEXAS BEFORE GOING PUBLIC. SB Energy’s SEC registration statement reveals that its predecessor, SE Global Holdings, completed its conversion from a Delaware corporation to a Texas corporation on August 28, 2026. Three days later, it adopted the SB Energy name. The company is pursuing a Nasdaq IPO under SBE, with SoftBank as its controlling shareholder and OpenAI and NVIDIA as strategic investors. Its prospectus discloses approximately $439 billion in contracted backlog and 8.8 gigawatts of contracted or under-construction data-center capacity. The Texas reincorporation is already complete. The IPO remains separate from that completed legal move.
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Many of us who read scholarly literature have noticed the that sometimes a footnote to an article contains the most interesting idea of the piece. I wonder whether the author didn't realize it at the time, or just wanted to minimize it because it didn't fit the article agenda?
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Robert Anderson retweeted
Public service is hard, but clearly these guys have the chops for it. #DadJokeCategory
The two candidates for Missouri House of Representatives District 158 have something in common. Left: incumbent R - Scott Cupps Right: D - Chris Foster
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Probably my greatest strength as a teacher is that students routinely come out of my classes saying they feel even more confused after listening to me than they did before.
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A political candidate is just a vector in a policy space. You pick the one closest to your ideal point. Their personal attributes are mostly a distraction except insofar as they bear on their location in the policy space.
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In a primary election the candidates might be so close together policy-wise that personal attributes matter for effectiveness. In a general election, the candidates are so far apart that personal attributes are irrelevant. If you are fixated on them you are being manipulated.
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I still see teachers giving students homework assignments that count for large portions of their course grades. How do you justify this when the students can simply complete them with AI? This invites cheating and punishes honesty.
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For my fellow Tombstone aficionados: I’m super jealous that my wife and kids got to meet Buck Taylor yesterday, who played Turkey Creek Jack Johnson in the movie. How does a guy look that tough at age 88? Silver Dollar City in Branson is such a treasure.
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The perfect Delaware corporate law case lets the insiders get away with anything they want substantively as long as they can show a sufficiently tall stack of paperwork documenting the intricate and expensive procedural hoops they paid lawyers to jump through.
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With all of the dash cameras now recording everything, it seems feasible that insurance companies could just yank insurance from pretty much all the aggressive drivers out there if they were allowed to.
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That's a pretty big vertical for a guy in his 80s. Really got to Hand it to him.
In the 1950s, portrait photographer Philippe Halsman would ask his subjects to jump in the air so they would loosen up for subsequent shots. Among Halsman's subjects was Judge Learned Hand, then in his 80s. The request resulted in the photo below. smithsonianmag.com/arts-cult…
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I wonder what percent of the time someone types (c) they are actually intending to type a copyright symbol. It's one of the weirdest autocorrects in Word.
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When is the best time to buy a REAL Christmas tree?
6%Nov 5
28%Nov 20
53%Dec 5
14%Dec 20
36 votes • Final results
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How many casebook pages is the right number to assign per one hour law school class?
28%10
40%20
17%30
15%40
410 votes • Final results
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I just heard that in some law school classes the professor doesn't even assign the entire casebook as reading?
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Comically predictable.
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This proposition is like a Bluesky fever dream.
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