I MAY POST A FEW ITEMS ON THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS CONFERENCE, but I won’t match Brad DeLong for blurbs, especially this one:

“Well, we do have a strong system of faculty committee governance. But that isn’t a blessing: it’s a curse. You see, rule by faculty committees translates into rule by those who come to meetings and stay a long time. And thus it becomes rule by those who have nothing better to do–rule by those who place a very low valuation on their time. In most cases, those who place a very low valuation on their time are correct in doing so. It’s thus a form of rule by the incompetent.” “Your mission is to show up next year with a proper Greek-derived word for this.”

I don’t have a Greek-derived word, but I do have an observation: the same is true of condo- and neighborhood associations.