Non, Ginny.  <<Je suis réveillé à 3h00 et devrait être endormi>>  Rough Translation:  I am a silly insomniac.  
I doff my chapeau to you, and to Ken for reminding us of that classic! 

Robert 


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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Virginia G Maurer
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 8:58 PM
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Few know literary trivia like Robert Emerson [Was it going to Sewanne or going to Harvard?]. Whichever, I doff my hat. 
 
What, exactly, is it a doff? Is that actually a word? I was thinking of taking off my hat and bowing, perhaps scraping a bit along the way. Except I do not often wear a hat. How critical is the hat?
 
What do we say of a colleague who can leap on obscurity and illumine it?
 
And, lo and behold, from France.
 
He must be bored.
 
Ginny
 
 

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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of Robert W Emerson
Sent: Thu 10/7/2010 8:42 PM
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AP Herbert was the writer.

Try http://alittlebitofjake.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/the-myth-of-the-reasonable-man-the-case-of-fardell-v-potts-a-p-herbert/

              Robert

 

Robert W. Emerson

Huber Hurst Professor of Business Law

Warrington College of Business Administration

University of Florida

 

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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kenneth Schneyer
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 8:06 PM
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Hi Everyone,

 

I am certain that I remember an old article called something like "A Day in the Life of the Reasonable Man," showing all the mythical absurdities the courts attribute to such a person.

 

But for the life of me, I cannot find it now.  Does anyone have a citation?

 

Thanks,

 

Ken Schneyer