Brian L. Frye
@brianlfrye
Dogecoin Professor of Law & Grifting @ukcollegeoflaw, securities artist &c. @SECgov describes scholarship as "fanciful." @IpseDixitPod georgecparker.eth
Frye on the Harvard Law Review Memos, buff.ly/8sPiduc - Brian L. Frye (University of Kentucky - J. David Rosenberg College of Law) has posted HLR Agonistes on SSRN.
I aspire to be the king of “but see” citations. 🤗
Here's a very cool paper from David Pozen and @JulianNyarko finding what they call the "Twitter bump" -- a very large uptick in citation counts and journal prestige for law professors who use Twitter. Here's the key figure:
An observation: It is incredibly cringe to criticize the “quality” of someone’s law review placement & if you do it, you should know that you are a pathetic loser.
I just posted the final version of "The Decline & Fall of the U.S. News Rankings" coauthored with @DeucesTecum & published in the @IndLRev. It shows that changes in a law school's US News ranking don't affect student preferences. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a…
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
My god this owns Teachout so hard.
Unusually perceptive NYT comment
An observation: Law journals should probably not be open for submissions on Scholastica if they are not actually accepting submissions.
In the alternative, how many people am I morally obligated to kill in exchange for additional whales?
Would you save 25,000 blue whales or 25,000 humans? Remember that 25,000 would be all the blue whales on earth, choosing the humans means rendering them extinct.
It is interesting that so many people insist on treating copyright as if it has moral value, when it is just a policy tool intended to encourage people to create works of authorship. When policy tools are no longer efficient, we can & should change them.
How many shrimp do I have to save in order to ethically kill a person?
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
If only shrimp cared about plankton welfare.
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
I'm looking for songs that describe artworks. The only one I've got is Nat King Cole's Mona Lisa. Unfortunately, Television's Venus de Milo doesn't really describe the statue.
An interesting authenticity dispute. IMO it’s one thing for the artist’s estate to declare a work inauthentic & another to try to prevent its sale. It will be interesting to see the complaint, if one is filed. artnews.com/art-news/news/…
I can't wait for the "anti-woke" version of Red Dawn. indiewire.com/news/breaking-…
The mechanical license sez your feelings & two bits'll buy you a cup of coffee. tmz.com/2025/07/14/kim…
