汉娜·阿伦特(Hannah Arendt)诞辰100周年
Hannah Arendt (1906.10.14 – 1975.12.4) , photo by Fred Stein.
理查德·波斯纳法官司法意见全集
哥伦比亚大学法学院的 Tim Wu [吴修铭]教授[曾任波斯纳法律助手]设立了 Project Posner，提供了1981年波斯纳担任联邦法官以来的2100多篇司法意见书的全文，并可供检索。以下是该网站的说明：
The purpose of this site is to make freely and easily available to the public Richard Posner’s largest and greatest body of work — his judicial opinions. The database contains opinions from 1981 to 2006. It will not contain the most recent opinions.
Why this site? While Posner’s books and popular writings are easily available to the public, his opinions are difficult or expensive for the public to access, let alone search. This site, for the first time, collects almost all of his opinions in a single searchable and easily readable database.
For lawyers and those interested in law, Posner’s opinions have a particular substantive value. One thing that distinguishes the opinions is the effort to try and get at why a given law actually exists, and an effort to try and make sense of the law. That can make them more useful than most case reports.
In addition, the opinions often develop the American general and state common law. Posner is among the judges who feels free to take the rule of Erie as more suggestion than injunction.
Finally, some of the opinions are funny.
美国法学院教员博客统计
[10月5日更新：经过公示征求意见之后，Solove 教授今天公布了 Law Professor Blogger Census (Version 5.1)：A-M，N-Z。]
去年我曾写过乔治·华盛顿大学法学院 Daniel Solove 教授所做的美国法学院教员博客的统计(Version 2.0)，昨天，Solove 教授又公布了他的最新统计结果：5.0 beta Version。
这一统计显示：
[10月5日更新：以下数据根据5.1版本修订]
现有306位美国法学院教员写博客，与上次（今年三月）统计数字相比，人数增加了30%。
其中女性占24%，男性占76％，这一比例与上次统计相比并无明显变化。
博克人数最多的前十名法学院及其人数是：
Chicago (16)
Georgetown (14)
San Diego (8)
Illinois (7)
GW (6)
George Mason (6)
Temple (6)
UCLA (6)
Michigan (5)
St. John’s (5)
William Mitchell (5)
统计名单上新出现的法学院有：
Arkansas-Fayetteville, Arizona State, Berkeley Boalt Hall, Brooklyn, Drexel, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan State, Nebraska, Santa Clara, Seton Hall, Tulane, Tulsa, and Wake Forest.
美国前20名精英法学院共有83位博客写作者，人数比上次统计增加了24%，具体分布如下：
1. Yale (2)
2. Stanford (3)
3. Harvard (4)
4. Columbia (1)
4. NYU (1)
6. Chicago (17)
7. Pennsylvania (0)
8. Berkeley (1)
8. Michigan (5)
8. Virginia (2)
11. Duke (2)
12. Northwestern (3)
13. Cornell (4)
14. Georgetown (14)
15. UCLA (6)
16. Texas (4)
17. USC (0)
17. Vanderbilt (1)
19. George Washington (6)
19. Minnesota (4)
19. Washington U. (4)
我也曾想做一个中国法律学者的博客统计，但由于相关学者并不完全实名写作，再加上国内的绝大多数法学院网站都十分简陋，不便收集信息，因此就处于搁置状态了。
推荐 Student’s Guides to the Major Disciplines 丛书
Intercollegiate Studies Institute 是美国的一个非营利教育机构，它组织出版的《大学生学科指南》(Student’s Guides to the Major Disciplines)丛书，包括法律、经济学、哲学、文学、历史、心理学、政治哲学等十余个小册子。丛书由各个学科领域内的知名学者撰写，内容深入浅出，高屋建瓴，涵盖各学科历史、主要思想及经典著作评介。这套书对于有兴趣了解西学的中国学生来说，也是入门的好帮手。特此推荐。
A Student’s Guide to Psychology, by Daniel N. Robinson
A Student’s Guide to American Political Thought, by George W. Carey
A Student’s Guide to U.S. History, by Wilfred M. McClay
A Student’s Guide to the Study of History, by John Lukacs
A Student’s Guide to Classics, by Bruce S. Thornton
A Student’s Guide to Economics, by Paul Heyne
A Student’s Guide to Literature, by R. V. Young
A Student’s Guide to Philosophy, by Ralph M. McInerny
A Student’s Guide to the Core Curriculum, by Mark C. Henrie
A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning, by James V. Schall
A Student’s Guide to the Study of Law, by Gerard V. Bradley
A Student’s Guide to Political Philosophy, by Harvey C. Mansfield
以上书目均可获得 PDF 格式的电子图书，建议下载阅读。
以上12本书打包下载 [RAR]（约4.5M）。
因有读者下载后无法正常解压缩，再提供一个分三个压缩包的下载选项（每个文件大约1.5M）：Part1，Part2，Part3。三个文件都下载后，加压缩即可。
解压密码是“欲穷千里目”的下一句五个字的汉语拼音（十八个小写字母）。
注意：请最好使用浏览器直接下载，而不要用迅雷、快车等下载软件，否则文件可能无法正常下载。
