Dartblog
Special Feature: The rent's unpaid, dear.
Fiscal infelicity, two (or more) open trustee seats, a deep endowment draw in a rough market. Not to mention the Second Dartmouth College Case. Jim Kim & Co. have a lot to contemplate. Dartblog brings you news and commentary from Hanover and the world at large.
Archived post
This is an archived post. Please click here to see the latest entries.
« Sylvia and Alcohol, Uh Oh | Home | Election Reform Study Committee »
Spears Here, Sinnott-Armstrong Leaving, Zywicki Rising
From an announcement at the George Mason University School of Law:
Law School Dean Daniel Polsby has announced the selection of Professors David E. Bernstein and Todd J. Zywicki as George Mason University Foundation Professors of Law in recognition of their major contributions to the academic field of law.
The award of a named or endowed professorship is traditionally considered one of the highest honors to be received by an academic. “It is a pleasure to be able to recognize the achievements of colleagues who have been prolific scholars and effective teachers over many years, and who are so closely identifiued with the George Mason law school program,” said Polsby.
……
Zywicki has taught in the areas of bankruptcy and contracts at Mason Law since 1998. He received his JD from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Zywicki is the author of more than 30 articles in leading law reviews and economics journals, and two new books by Zywicki are forthcoming. He has testified before Congress on bankruptcy reform issues and is a frequent commentator in the print and broadcast media. During the 2003-04 academic year, Zywicki served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. His expertise is in the areas of bankruptcy law, consumer credit and consumer lending, consumer protection law, law and economics, and obesity and advertising.
By way of backround, there are 46 full-time professors at GMU Law. Bernstein and Zywicki will now join three other endowed chairholders among them.
Todd Zywicki was not re-elected to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees this past spring - the first trustee ever to be rejected in this way.
Featured posts
-
October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…