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David Friedman
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Law professor. Law school associate dean. I teach Torts. Oregon guy who is still a Connecticut guy. Personal account.
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1. June
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
About 1/3 of the way into the Great Gatsby and I’m beginning to wonder whether this guy is “Great” because i think he is exaggerating his background 1/
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This one is going out to my Corporate/ Biz Associations friends - if a new lawyer did NOT take the basic course in law school but wants a handy way to get up to speed - what references would you have them read?
October 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I haven’t been here in a bit. I miss some of you people.
October 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Just putting out there that there’s probably a way to make university and law school accreditation a whole lot less resource-consuming while preserving 100% of the accountability.
October 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I moved to Oregon from the Acela corridor almost 20 years ago. One of the best things about living here has been that you can just … live here.
October 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It is a beautiful, spectacular fall day here in Portland, Oregon.
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our public schools are clearly not doing a great job of teaching the business judgment rule and the intricacies of shareholder derivative litigation
September 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
My new phone arrived!
September 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
My goodness, people. Don’t pay to have your cabin air filter replaced. Just call me. I’ll do it for you.
September 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The NextGen bar should test this
September 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
With Dan Markel back in the news… it’s worth remembering what a generous human being he was -
August 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Now THIS is a Learning Management System
August 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
If I post about preparing to teach Torts, it will draw out all of the “I like chocolate torts lol” replies that I always get and feel obligated to feign amusement about. So I’m not going to post about preparing to teach Torts this year. I’m not even going to post the word “Torts.”
August 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
As a connoisseur of the spam text genre, this is magnifique
August 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Law schools that admit transfer students need to do a better job of helping their admittees understand the taller task of networking in a new community.
August 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
There’s something in our biological clocks that moves us to tell children how much things used to cost.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
July 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Cannot blame people for asking
June 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
If you told me in 1988 that we’d have AI overlords by 2030, I would have been unsurprised.

If you told me in 1988 that indoor shopping malls would vanish from the planet by 2030, I would have lol’d.
May 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Selling a couple of used tires on Facebook marketplace and I know that this will lead to my premature demise
May 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The Lone Dissenters would be a heck of a band name
May 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Stocking up today on coffee, laptops, washing machines and new cars
April 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM