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Clerkship Position Available with the DC Contract Appeals Board

The DC Contract Appeals Board is hiring law clerks for the Spring 2012 semester. They are interested in 2Ls, 3Ls, and LL.M.s with a strong interest in government contracts law, and litigation. 

The CAB has an extremely busy docket, providing you with an excellent opportunity to gain experience working on bid protest and contract claims. Moreover, each student will work directly for a judge, serving as the judge's law clerk. 

Requested Application Materials: 

Applicants should provide a one-page cover letter, resume, recent legal writing sample (8 pages maximum that has been written within the last 3 years), and three professional references (including email addresses and telephone numbers). 

Applications may be mailed or emailed as follows: 

Richard Rothschild
General Counsel
D.C. Contract Appeals Board
441 4th Street, NW., Suite 350N
Washington, D.C. 20001
richard.rothschild@dc.gov

[JT w/ HT to Jessica Tillipman and the Government Procurement Law Program at the George Washington University Law School]

New in Print

Amanda Harmon Coole , Marka B. Fleming and Gwendolyn McFadden-Wade, The Constitutional and Contractual Controversy of Suspicionless Drug Testing of Public School Teachers, 63 Okla. L. Rev. 421 (2011)

Nathan B. Oman How to Judge Shari'a Contracts: A Guide to Islamic Marriage Agreements in American Courts, 2011 Utah L. Rev. 287

Lucille M. Ponte, Getting a Bad Rap? Unconscionability in Clickwrap Dispute Resolution Clauses and a Proposal for Improving the Quality of These Online Consumer "Products," 26 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 119 (2011)

Kevin Scott, Contracts and Commercial Law. 56 Wayne L. Rev. 1025 (2010)

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U.S. State-to-State Arms Sales Data 2003-2010

Some clues as to how the Greeks have spent all their money are available now from the Congressional Research Service.

A few other random thoughts on the data:

• African governments clearly are not doing all they could to help the U.S. economy through purchases of U.S. weaponry
• Hooray for Canada's unexpected militarism
• And while we're at it, good on ya Australia!
• Eastern Europe (other than Poland), don't look now but there's still a big Russian bear behind you.  Can we interest you in some supersonic jets?

Thanks to Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News blog for providing the link!

[JT]

Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Network

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal 
October 20, 2011 to December 19, 2011

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	218	Codification and Flexibility in Private International Law  Symeon C. Symeonides,  Willamette University - College of Law
2	209	Incentive Contracting  Ralph C. Nash,  George Washington University - Law School
3	167	How to Opt into the Common European Sales Law? Brief Comments on the Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation  Martijn W. Hesselink,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
4	142	Bijzondere Overeenkomsten in Kort Bestek (Specific Contracts in a Nutshell)  Alain-Laurent Verbeke, Pieter Matthias Brulez, Nicolas Carette, Nele Hoekx,  University of Leuven, Faculty of Law, Department of Private Law, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN
5	132	Political Risk and Sovereign Debt Contracts  Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati, Eric A. Posner,  New York University (NYU) - School of Law, Duke University - School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School
6	131	Keynote Address: A Regulatory Framework for Managing Systemic Risk  Steven L. Schwarcz,  Duke University - School of Law
7	116	Endogenous Institutions: Law as a Coordinating Device  Gillian Hadfield, Barry R. Weingast,  USC Law School and Department of Economics, Stanford University - The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
8	85	Introduction to International Commercial Arbitration  Margaret L. Moses,  Loyola University of Chicago - School of Law - Faculty
9	84	Introduction: The Three and a Half Minute Transaction: Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design  G. Mitu Gulati, Robert E. Scott,  Duke University - School of Law, Columbia University - Law School
10	71	Theories of Contract Law and Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments on Charles Fried  Brian Bix,  University of Minnesota Law School

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) 
TOP 10 Papers for Journal of LSN: Contracts (Topic)  
October 20, 2011 to December 19, 2011

Rank	Downloads	Paper Title
1	165	How to Opt into the Common European Sales Law? Brief Comments on the Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation  Martijn W. Hesselink,  University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
2	84	Introduction: The Three and a Half Minute Transaction: Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design  G. Mitu Gulati, Robert E. Scott,  Duke University - School of Law, Columbia University - Law Schoo
3	70	Contract Versus Statute in Internet Governance  Lee A. Bygrave,  University of Oslo
4	58	Subprime Mortgages and the Case for Broadening the Duty of Good Faith  Chunlin Leonhard,  Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
5	57	Promissory Autonomy, Imperfect Courts, and the Immorality of the Expectation Damages Default  George G. Triantis,  Stanford Law School
6	57	The Holmesian Bad Man Flubs His Entrance  Barbara H. Fried,  Stanford Law School
7	45	Will Firms Consider a European Optional Instrument in Contract Law?  Gary Low,  Maastricht European Private Law Institute
8	44	Consumer Protection and the Islamic Law of Contract  Muhammad Akbar Khan,  International Islamic University
9	28	Mandatory Law: Fundamental Principles  Hans Christoph Grigoleit,  Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Law
10	27	Acquis Principles  Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Lovro Tomasic,  Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Law, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich - Faculty of Law

[JT]