There used to be a show from the 90s called
America’s Funniest Home Videos, where host Bog Saget would show silly home movies that people sent in from across the country.
The videos typically featured people doing stupid things. And if the video was funny enough, someone could have won the $100,000 grand prize.
All of that was pre-Internet, of course. Now there are people amassing fortunes on YouTube with audiences that rival hit TV shows.
Today, a nine year old boy named Ryan Koji is the highest earning YouTuber. Last year he raked an estimated $30 million from about 12 billion views, all from videos of him opening and playing with toys on camera for his 42 million subscribers.
In Memoriam: Phillip I. Blumberg, Former UConn School of Law Dean
Blumberg was a transformational leader, orchestrating the law school s move to its present campus and recruiting top faculty members.
Phillip I. Blumberg, dean of the UConn School of Law from 1974 to 1984, at his desk in 2004. He taught for several years after he stepped down and continued to write into his 90s. (UConn Photo) Copy Link
Phillip I. Blumberg, the former Wall Street lawyer whose vision and leadership transformed the campus, faculty, and reputation of the University of Connecticut School of Law during his 10 years as dean, died Feb. 14, 2021, at the age of 101.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
As recently as 10 years ago, Jeannie Suk Gersen was still telling people that the area of law she specialized in sexual assault and domestic violence didn’t hold much interest for the general public. A quiet corner of the profession, she thought. Remembering that now, she laughs. “But, you know,” she adds, “every area of law does end up moving into focus. Because, in the end, law is really about every aspect of our lives.”
Which is partly why Gersen, J.D. ’02, has always taken it so seriously. “Words don’t just describe things,” she explains. In the law, “words actually do things.” So it’s important to get those words right, to reach as close as one can to the truth.