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David Friedman

@profdaf

Law professor. Law school associate dean. I teach Torts. Oregon guy who is still a Connecticut guy. Personal account.

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I have - and it’s like Instagram life - the otter isn’t showing us his full life

27.02.2026 15:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hear me out - I think a lot of people are seeking attention and sometimes it manifests itself in poor online behavior

27.02.2026 15:40 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m beginning to think that social media has a downside for our society and civic life

27.02.2026 15:39 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Director of Licensure ABOUT WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: Willamette University, founded in 1842, is a nationally-renowned private university enrolling 2800 students across five colleges. Our historic campus, adjacent to the Oreg...

Any of you legal aces out there want to help folks prepare for the bar? Come work with me at Willamette Law! willamette.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Willam...

14.02.2026 05:23 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trash 🚮 for cash 💰!!! Make $75,000 from 🏠 with this one easy trick!

30.01.2026 18:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Another (anonymously-given) A+ student gift -

21.01.2026 19:37 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I like the way a one-word title does the work. I like how you harness the power of the word, if that makes sense

21.01.2026 16:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ugh

21.01.2026 16:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

you know a restaurant is going to be fantastic when it has “factory” in its name

20.01.2026 15:30 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Perfect bacon egg & cheese sandwich, too…

19.01.2026 03:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I loved hearing Lew tell anyone who wanted a salad “this isn’t a health food store”

19.01.2026 03:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s “lost” 😢 - it wasn’t really a 21st century thing

19.01.2026 03:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yankee Doodle in New Haven. A legendary lunch counter. Cheeseburger (with a pat of butter) and a hand mixed Cherry Coke.

Cheap and greasy … just like me.

19.01.2026 03:38 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Shameless self-promotion: my latest YouTube comment has received almost 45 likes and 5 replies (all favorable), vaulting it into position as probably my best ever

18.01.2026 19:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Caltech names new president, an astrophysicist who vows to empower 'brilliant minds' Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana will become the Caltech president. He will join the campus from Johns Hopkins University, where he is provost.

My amazing friend and college roommate who is considerably patient with my less than brilliant mind. www.latimes.com/california/s...

06.01.2026 20:19 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Regulating Drip Pricing “Drip pricing” occurs where the seller first appears to describe the full price of an offering, however after the transaction has commenced, the buyer discovers

For a limited time only, I am offering free downloads of my drip pricing piece. There will be a small academic-fee surcharge, tho. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

05.01.2026 23:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Regulating Drip Pricing “Drip pricing” occurs where the seller first appears to describe the full price of an offering, however after the transaction has commenced, the buyer discovers

For a limited time only, I am offering free downloads of my drip pricing piece. There will be a small academic-fee surcharge, tho. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

05.01.2026 23:13 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I wrote about junk fees / drip pricing before it was cool. I do think that there is a legitimate free market justification for an intervention so I think there could be, dare I say it, common ground here -

05.01.2026 23:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"
- Ogden Nash

31.12.2025 09:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ha! Seasons greetings to
you, too, Anne-Marie :-)

26.12.2025 02:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was about the Christmas Day bomber plot and I think focused on what was going on at DOJ that day, but yeah, it was quite weird - and this was a characteristically brilliant (and witty) response from EMK

25.12.2025 20:39 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The great Hanukkah miracle is ordering enough Chinese Food on Christmas Eve to last 8 nights

24.12.2025 22:29 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The grrrrrinch is grrrrrrrrrreat!

23.12.2025 21:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Only 2 days left to do all of your forum shopping

23.12.2025 20:45 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Any interest in grading some Torts exams?

23.12.2025 07:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I saw somewhere that the FBI was going to do handwriting analysis - but didn’t see the results.

23.12.2025 07:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

True - and yeah, maybe he asked his lawyers where he might wind up, who knows

23.12.2025 07:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

True - but he had to find out where he was in prison - that would be a weird question

23.12.2025 07:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

How the hell did he get his address? Who the hell would give it to him?

23.12.2025 07:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 2

Only a week?! I don’t have the powers of concentration like I once did. I think administrative role has killed my ability to focus!

23.12.2025 07:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0