Good things come in sevens:

1. Here’s our latest Forbes column – which is pitching a real way for employers to promises not to discriminate. Promises to Keep Forbes 78 (July 4, 2005) (with Barry Nalebuff). Any employer can provide credible protection for its employees at www.fairemploymentmark.com

2. Here’s a public radio Marketplace commentary that just aired – which suggests how better benchmarking might improve my teaching:

3. Here’s an oped asking how far heterosexuals should go to avoid marrying in a discriminatory state. Straight, Not Narrow: How Straight Couples Can Support Gay Marriage, New Haven Advocate (June 16, 2005) (with Jennifer Gerarda Brown).

4. Here’s an oped that explains how CT Civil Union law still substantively discriminates against same sex couples. Separate, Unequal: How Civil Unions Fall Short of Marriage, Hartford Courant A13 (June 10, 2005).

5. After 4 years, my number crunching on cabs is finally published. You should feel free to tip less. Tipping allows consumers to discriminate against minority service providers and may cause service providers to discriminate against minority customers. To Insure Prejudice: Racial Disparities in Taxicab Tipping, 114 Yale Law Journal 1613 (2005) (with Fred Vars and Nasser Zakariya).

6. Jon Macey’s excellent article (which through his great generosity includes me as a coauthor) has now been published Institutional and Evolutionary Failure and Economic Development in the Middle East, Yale Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2005).

7. And finally, Jennifer Gerarda Brown and I have published a new book: Straightforward: Mobilizing Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights (Princeton University Press 2005). You can learn all about the book at www.straightforwardbook.com and you can find a compilation of Lessig blog entries at http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/ba.shtml If you send me an email with a subject line “please send me a copy of Straightforward” and include your mailing address in the body of the email, I’ll send you a free copy. As always, thank you for wading your way through this spam.

Sincerely,

Ian Ayres

William K. Townsend Professor

Yale Law School

PO Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520

203.432.7101 (o), 203.432.4769 (fax), 203.624.5654 (h)

ian.ayres@yale.edu