RiskProf

New book

Last week I had the privilege of testifying before Congress on the future of insurance regulation (more on that later).  Today, I received a copy of a book edited by Bob Klein and me with the same title.

It does not appear to be on Amazon -- which just seems strange to me.  It is also missing from the front page of Brookings Press, but  you can order a copy here.  I am not impressed with their website as there is missing information on the book site. 

Light Posting

I know that we professors have tons of vacation time and hardly see any students, so in between golf, long lunches at the faculty club where we chat incessantly about our golf scores and our next BMW, and posting on our blogs we actually have little to do….. 

I have been creating a dataset on insurers entry and exit from cat markets for a paper we are presenting at the NBER Insurance Project next month.  We need to have the paper done by Friday so that’s what I have been doing in all my free time.

However there are two items to note.  The first is that according to one of my former Ph.D students I was on C-Span II last weekend discussing a book by UCONN’s Tom Baker on the Malpractice Crisis at the AEI  last month.  However, I can not find it on the public schedule.  I must have been a super secret showing.  So if you just have to see it now … you can watch it at the AEI’s site in streaming video.

Second, there is a new blog called TortsProf (part of the LawProf network) edited by William Childs at Western New England School of Law.  He has postings on potential Katrina juries as well even more on that ubiquitous shrimp case.