Ed Cottrell

  • Summer Job

    I am happy to say that I have accepted a summer job as a research assistant with Professor Todd Henderson. It should be great.

  • Just what is KFC selling, anyway?

    I got the following receipt at a KFC, this past weekend, when I put my meal on a debit card, being completely out of cash: (click to enlarge) For obvious reasons, I was a little horrified at first, but nothing actually went wrong, thankfully…

  • Truer words…

    “Most of the literature of jurisprudence, to paraphrase William James, is tedious, not as hard subjects like physics and mathematics are tedious, but as throwing feathers, endlessly, hour after hour, is tedious.” Thurman Arnold, Institute Priests and Yale Observers – A Reply to Dean Goodrich, 84 U. Pa. L. Rev. 811 (1936). This is the…

  • Abdul Rahman to be Released

    I posted, a couple days ago, on the situation of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan Christian who was facing the death penalty for his conversion from Islam. CNN is reporting that he will be released “in the coming days.” (Link to follow)

  • There Goes My Life, Again

    I just bought a course packet of 764 letter-sized pages. Welcome to law school, boys and girls. Welcome to law school.