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June 22, 02:53 AM / Crooked Timber / Sunday photoblogging: heads
June 21, 08:15 PM / Althouse / “American warplanes dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, President Trump announced on Saturday night, bringing the U.S. military directly into the war after days of uncertainty about whether he would intervene.”The NYT reports. “All planes are now outside of Iran air space,” he said in a post on social media, adding that a “full payload” of bombs had been dropped on Fordo, the heavily fortified underground facility in Iran that is critical to its nuclear program. “All planes are safely on their way home.”
June 21, 07:14 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:20, 5:39.Talk about whatever you like in the comments. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link .
June 21, 04:00 PM / Althouse / "It’s 1975, and ‘Jaws’ just came out. Here’s what critics had to say. When the film premiered 50 years ago, movie reviewers hailed Steven Spielberg’s work as a masterpiece — most of the time."A Washington Post headline that makes it seem as though it's a special thing to be able to access the contemporaneous reviews of an old movie. Obviously, it's not. It used to be. And is there anything special about a movie being 50 years old (or some other round number)? It used to matter because...
June 21, 10:33 AM / Balkinization / Children will get sick and die because Trump owed RFK Jr. a favor
June 21, 10:19 AM / Crooked Timber / Helen de Cruz (1978-2025), RIPPlease consider donating to this fundraising effort (here) to support Helen de Cruz’s family. There is no greater joy for a teacher than to see a student develop and grow; and no more satisfaction to a mentor than to be overshadowed professionally by one’s mentee. I have followed Helen’s intellec...
June 21, 10:00 AM / Althouse / "There are people that come, and they’ve been on it for three years, and they’re just so tired of feeling nauseous and constipated.""They have come to Mountain Trek to get off of it. To learn accumulated lifestyle habits, so that they don’t then gain all the weight back." Said Kirkland Shave, co-owner of the wellness retreat Mountain Trek, quoted in "The Ozempic era is forcing wellness retreats for the elite to change/Attende...
June 21, 09:37 AM / Althouse / "Feras Hamdan, a 36-year-old Ohio doctor, turned himself in... after allegedly forcing Republican Representative Max Miller off the road in a road rage incident.""While authorities have not disclosed Hamdan's alleged motive in detail, law enforcement indicated that his actions appeared intentional and targeted.... The police report says that Hamdan allegedly honked his horn, shouted threats, and made aggressive gestures toward Miller while pursuing his ve...
June 21, 09:07 AM / Althouse / "In a rambling, conspiratorial letter addressed to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter claimed Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate...""... according to two people familiar with the contents of the letter. The letter... is incoherent, one and a half pages long, confusing and hard to read, according to two people familiar with the letter’s contents.... Federal prosecutors allege the letter was left behind in a Buick that Boelter ...
June 21, 08:13 AM / Althouse / "Punks had earned a reputation for evil and expressed it in their outfits and in their music. But back then, within certain circles, evil was used colloquially as good.""I was intrigued by the bad guys and wanted to see what happened when a woman photographed a man, as the opposite was the norm in those days." Said Marcia Resnick, quoted in "Marcia Resnick, photographer of punk’s heyday, dies at 74/She also took photos of actor John Belushi before his fatal drug...
June 21, 07:49 AM / Althouse / "There are a lot of conversations happening right now. People know the movement is stuck. They know we’ve gone too far. They know we’ve lost the thread."Said said Dana Beyer, "a physician and longtime trans activist in Maryland," quoted in "How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost/The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation" (NYT)(free-access link).
June 21, 05:45 AM / Althouse / How is Gavin Newsom in debates?I wondered, reading this quote from Newsom: "Since you’re so eager to talk about me, how about saying it to my face. Let’s debate. Time and place?" He wrote that on X, and I'm reading it this morning in "Vance Blames L.A. Violence on California Democrats and Disparages Padilla/Vice President JD V...
June 21, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Weekend Roundup
June 20, 08:23 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Good StandingThe United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of an action brought challenging local bar admission rules The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal with prejudice of a lawsuit brought by Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal...
June 20, 06:56 PM / Althouse / The first sunrise of summer.That happened at 5:20 a.m. Talk about whatever you like in the comments. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link .
June 20, 02:39 PM / Balkinization / Balkinization Symposium in Honor of Ken Kersch-- Collected Posts
June 20, 01:49 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Shanks-Dumont on Godzilla Cinema and the Imaginal Legal History of Ecocide
June 20, 09:51 AM / Althouse / Naked as a clam.I'm reading "Don’t sleep naked — the nine best tips on how to sleep in the heat/Struggling to drop off then waking at the crack of dawn? Boiling nights can be a challenge. Here’s what to do" (London Times). 9 tips are needed because air conditioning is not one of them. In first place is the one t...
June 20, 09:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Grossman and Friedman on History, Tradition and Abortion
June 20, 08:29 AM / Althouse / "I know of one landscaper that lost the whole crew he had, and he is just totally out of business, all of a sudden."That quote is featured at the beginning of yesterday's NYT "Daily" podcast, An Interview With Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan." The quote is presented in a context that feels intended to generate empathy for those who've been affected by the "increasingly aggressive raids." But that "landscaper" —...
June 20, 07:57 AM / Althouse / "We want diversity of opinion. We don't want diversity of facts. And how do we train and teach our kids to distinguish between those things?"" That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require some government, I believe, some government regulatory constraints around some of these business models in a way that's consistent with the First Amendment, but that also says, look, there is a difference betwee...
June 20, 06:46 AM / Crooked Timber / Open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the skewed selection process for head of European Data Protection SupervisorHi CT readers, I’m publishing this open letter here so there’s a public record of the letter I’ve co-written and signed about what looks, walks and talks like a good old-fashioned Brussels stitch-up aimed at weakening the EU organisation that oversees data protection in EU insti...
June 20, 05:45 AM / Althouse / Joe Biden — who declared Juneteenth a federal holiday — celebrates Juneteenth.At the Reedy Church, yesterday, in Galveston, Texas: "Delaware is a strange state. Delaware is the first state, but it also is a state that was a slave state, by great shame. But it fought on the side of the North, and it didn't get to the South like Maryland and two other states. And so even whe...
June 18, 10:28 AM / Althouse / "Supreme Court allows Tennessee ban on gender-transition care for minors."Free-access link to WaPo, here . Here 's the full text of the opinion, which is 6-3, divided as you would expect a 6-3 case to be divided. The Chief writes the opinion, and the other 5 conservatives join, but Alito only joins parts I and II-B. There are concurring opinions from Thomas, Barrett, a...
June 18, 09:19 AM / Althouse / "When the officials don’t get control of the ballgame, when they allow stuff to happen, and it’s been happening all season long … this is what happens. You’ve got competitive women...""... who are the best in the world at what they do, right? And when you allow them to play physical, and you allow these things to happen, they’re going to compete." Said Fever Coach Stephanie White, quoted in "Caitlin Clark, a night of skirmishes, and a WNBA product out of control/After a night ...
June 18, 09:05 AM / Althouse / Headlines of the Morning.1. "Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism/You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a rancid bigot" (Public Notice). 2. "ICE Barbie Visited Biohazard Lab With RFK Jr. Before Hospitalization/The HHS secretary shared an image alongside Noem 'inspecting the biological hazard labs' a day earl...
June 17, 08:22 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:15, 5:20, 5:23.Talk about whatever you like in the comments. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link .
June 17, 01:48 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Return To SenderThe Ohio Board on Professional Conduct recommends a one-year suspension with six-months stayed on conditions and reinstatement on conditions for conduct after a mistaken Zelle transfer of funds. The proposed reinstatement condition include payment of sanctions and a mental health...
June 17, 12:33 PM / Althouse / Did Trump drop those papers out on purpose to make Starmer bend over?Headline at The Guardian: "Starmer says he picked up Trump’s dropped papers to avoid security scare/UK prime minister says it ‘would not have been good’ for anyone else such as member of media to try to help" ("I mean, look, there weren’t many choices with the documents and picking it up, b...
June 17, 12:21 PM / Althouse / "But during the transition Ramaswamy and Musk increasingly disagreed about how to make the government more efficient.""Ramaswamy, who had apparently come around to the fact that significant cuts would require an act of Congress, began meeting regularly with a small group of legislators. Musk mostly did not attend. A source close to doge told me that Musk seemed to regard members of Congress as irrelevant, someti...
June 17, 12:18 PM / Althouse / "Civilizations age and die. It’s acknowledged in one of the most beloved charades of wokeism: apologies to (selected) preliterate civilizations...""... that once were based in the area now inhabited by the apologists. What, however, would the enlightened have happen? Their fantasy casts them as champions of the Stone Age folks who once enjoyed the real estate we currently inhabit. But stone axes and buffalo hunting could have continued only...
June 17, 12:11 PM / Althouse / "I’ve never liked the way that little man runs that band."Said Ringo Starr, about Roger Daltrey who fired Ringo's son Zak from The Who. Ringo is quoted in "Ringo Starr Doesn’t Like ‘That Little Man’ From the Who" (NY Magazine). How little is "that little man"? The internet tells me Roger Daltrey is 5'6". Ringo is 5'8".
June 17, 10:53 AM / Althouse / "Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a 'ease fire' between Israel and Iran. Wrong!""He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that. Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong. Stay Tuned!" Wrote Trump on Truth Social. AND: The London Times reports this from the U.K Prime Minister, Kei...
June 17, 09:30 AM / Althouse / Mamdani is this week's Padilla.Caught on camera: NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani losing it as he tries to force his way to Tom Homan. If this is how he acts now, imagine the disaster if he ever held office. Unfit. Unhinged. Unbelievable. Thoughts? ⬇️
June 17, 09:06 AM / Althouse / "It reminds me of a line that I hear less now, but I used to see it a lot, which is: It’s not my job to educate you.""I always thought about that line because on one level, I understood it. It’s probably not your job to educate anyone. But if you’re in politics, if what you’re trying to do is political change, I always found that line to be almost antipolitical . That if what you want to do is change a law, cha...
June 17, 08:47 AM / Althouse / The North Korea news reports on Trump's big Army parade.On TikTok: @waterfordwhispersnews North Korean News Report On Trump Military Parade ♬ original sound - WWN
June 17, 08:40 AM / Althouse / "One statement from the ministry urges people to be wary of strangers wearing masks or goggles, driving pickup trucks and carrying large bags or filming around military, industrial, or residential areas.""Elsewhere, a poster published by the state-affiliated Nour News – which is close to Iran’s security apparatus – singled out for suspicion people who wear 'masks, hats, and sunglasses, even at night' and those who receive 'frequent package deliveries by courier.' The poster asks people to report ...
June 17, 08:30 AM / Althouse / "Who would have thought that this island boy, growing up in Samoa in a hut, would design something that was in L.A, Fashion Week, Australian Fashion Week and in Buckingham Palace?"Said Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, quoted in "'Project Runway' Designer Is Fatally Shot During Utah 'No Kings' Protest/Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, a Samoan-born fashion designer, was participating in an anti-Trump protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday when he was shot by a man working security, the police ...
June 11, 03:33 PM / Crooked Timber / Empathy as a SinYou may have viewed Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) offering a mock apology for dismissing a constituent’s complaint that the Medicaid cuts she endorses will cause people to die with the flippant remark, “We are all going to die.” She tied her defense of her callousness to Christianity...
June 11, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Ken Kersch and the Possibility of Inclusive and Diverse Conversation
June 11, 08:20 AM / Legal History Blog / Tsai and Levinson on Caste
June 10, 01:30 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Goldstein on James Wilson at the University of Pennsylvania
June 10, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Confessions of Reviewer #2
June 10, 02:23 AM / Crooked Timber / Platform work, reduxA few days ago, I experienced a strange auditive mix-up. My favorite German radio program, Deutschlandfunk, sent a documentary about “platform workers”. Uber, Deliveroo, etc., you might think, but no. This was about workers on oil platforms in Norway: about the oil boom in the North Sea, about th...
June 10, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Boyd's "Freedom Enterprise"
June 9, 04:22 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Donaldson on Law, Legal Expertise, and the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes: Revisiting Early League Council Practice
June 9, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / The Better Angels of Our Nature: An Introduction to the Scholarship of Ken I. Kersch
June 9, 09:08 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / New Online Program on Law, Literature, and Film Taught Entirely in Spanish To Launch in October 2025
June 9, 09:00 AM / Balkinization / Balkinization Symposium in Honor of Ken Kersch
June 9, 03:33 AM / Crooked Timber / Chibber’s Confronting Capitalism, Trump, and the Anxiety of Disordered SocietiesA generation ago, General Electric’s CEO, Jack Welch (1935 – 2020) was the most admired business manager in the world. And General Electric purportedly the most admired corporation. Among his well-known attributes, Welch “would fire the bottom 10% of his managers, regardless of absolu...
June 9, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Toler on Privileges, Immunities and Freemanship
June 8, 07:01 AM / Crooked Timber / Happy World Ocean Day!Except it’s not happy, of course. The ocean’s ecosystems are going to hell in a hand-cart, while our politicians congratulate themselves for signing up to pledges (like protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030) that they have no realistic plan for achieving. The conclusion that they are si...
June 8, 04:25 AM / Crooked Timber / Sunday photoblogging: Bath doorways
June 7, 07:37 AM / Legal History Blog / Weekend Roundup
June 6, 07:21 PM / Balkinization / Symposium on Burning Down the House
June 6, 04:18 PM / Balkinization / Abrego Garcia's Return
June 6, 12:38 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Satrio on Between Two Worlds: Indonesia and the Spectre of the Dharmic-Infusted Constitutional Structure
June 6, 09:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Halbhuber on the State-Law Origins of Appellate Review
June 5, 11:00 AM / Legal History Blog / Michigan Law Review's Book Review Issue
June 5, 03:39 AM / Crooked Timber / Occasional paper: The impossible predicament of the death newtsSo a few days ago I posted about newts, and I mentioned that there was an American newt that was ridiculously toxic. But then (I said) there wasn’t space or time to go into why. And of course I was immediately bombarded by many* comments and e-mails asking why. *three Well, fine. The wor...
June 5, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Judge William Bryant, the "Soul of the Court"
June 4, 03:29 PM / Balkinization / Get a Better Source
June 4, 12:49 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Jones Corredera on The Origins of the Calvo Clause: Why Carlos Calvo Supported Napoleon III's Vision for Latin America
June 4, 12:08 PM / Balkinization / Trump’s Reconciliation Bill Goes to the Senate
June 4, 11:02 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Kammerhofer on Hans Kelsen
June 4, 09:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Kroncke on American Legal Education and Chinese Law Reform
June 4, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Symposium on the Intellectual History of Legal History
June 3, 09:54 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Fletcher on Nanaboozhoo and Derrick Bell Go for a Walk
June 3, 09:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Cantisano on "Administrative Despotism" in Brazil
June 3, 09:20 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / From the University of Coimbra: Announcing the PhD in Contemporary Studies
June 3, 03:29 AM / Crooked Timber / On The Political Roots of Academic FreedomBut perhaps there was no event, which tended farther to the improvement of the age, than one, which has not been much remarked, the accidental finding of a copy of Justinian’s Pandects, about the year 1130, in the town of Amalfi in Italy.—David Hume History of England, 23.34 The modern univ...
June 3, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / AHA Congressional Briefing on Tariffs
June 2, 11:36 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Call For Expressions of Interest: International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication, Section 12: Constitutionality, Normativity, and the Limits of Law
June 2, 11:33 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Call For Expressions of Interest: International Handbook of Legal Language and Communication, Section 26: Criminal Law and Communication in Immersive and Transnational Digital Environments
June 2, 10:35 AM / Crooked Timber / Open Science and Its EnemiesDonald Trump has signed an Executive Order nominally aimed at “Restoring Gold Standard Science”. Setting aside the absurdity of “restoring” something that never existed, what does that purport to mean? Gold Standard Science means science conducted in a manner that is: (i) reproducible; (ii) trans...
June 2, 09:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Shugerman on Chinese Immigrants and Birthright Citizenship
June 2, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Del Mar's "Neil McCormick"
June 1, 02:44 PM / Balkinization / Cleansing Public Debate
June 1, 09:34 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Wasiq and Magoge on the Epistemology of Legal Maxims and Hermeneutics in Common Law Jurisprudence
June 1, 05:49 AM / Crooked Timber / Altona: from the street to a courtyard
May 31, 11:16 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Stern on The Lost English Roots of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking
May 31, 09:37 AM / Legal History Blog / Weekend Roundup
May 31, 09:24 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Wieboldt on Our Natural Law Moment(s)
May 30, 09:18 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Papke on The Jurisprudence of Transcendentalism
May 29, 04:25 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Kopel on Machine Gun History and Bibliography
May 28, 08:36 PM / Balkinization / Liberation Day From Liberation Day
May 28, 11:44 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Call For Papers: Argumentation 2025--Games of Law, October 31-November 1, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University
May 28, 08:19 AM / Balkinization / Originalism as Novelty and Our Merely De Facto President
May 22, 07:39 PM / Balkinization / Who Will be the Executor of Humphrey's Executor?
May 21, 09:30 AM / Neuroethics & Law Blog / "Freedom of Thought: Absolute Protection of Mental Privacy and Mental Integrity?" by LigthartSjors Ligthart (Utrecht University, Tilburg University) has published "Freedom of Thought: Absolute Protection of Mental Privacy and Mental Integrity?" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In recent discussions over the RFoT, it has been emphasised that for an adequate understanding,...
May 21, 07:19 AM / Balkinization / Emergency Powers in a Nutshell
May 20, 09:49 AM / Neuroethics & Law Blog / "How Neuroscience Can Improve the Sentencing of Defendants with Autism Spectrum Disorder" by Berryessa & CalimanColleen M. Berryessa (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) and Carolina R. Caliman (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) have published, "How Neuroscience Can Improve the Sentencing of Defendants with Autism Spectrum Disorder" on SSRN. Here is the...
May 20, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / The Weapons of the Weak Before the Movement
May 19, 09:45 AM / Neuroethics & Law Blog / "Making Victims Relevant: Republican Freedom and the Justification of Criminal Punishment" by GiannidiAlexandra Giannidi (University of Cambridge) has published "Making Victims Relevant: Republican Freedom and the Justification of Criminal Punishment" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although punishment theories have overall been slow to incorporate the move towards victims’ rights, Braithwaite &...
May 16, 09:39 AM / Neuroethics & Law Blog / "Rights, Reasons, and Culpability in Tort Law and Criminal Law" by AntillGregory Antill (Columbia Law School) has published, "Rights, Reasons, and Culpability in Tort Law and Criminal Law" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article considers how a mens rea regime growing out of principles of corrective or restorative justice,...
May 15, 02:44 PM / Neuroethics & Law Blog / "Metaphysical Questions About Law: A Practice-Based Approach" by BixBrian Bix (University of Minnesota Law School) has published, "Metaphysical Questions About Law: A Practice-Based Approach" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this brief paper, prepared for an IVR Special Workshop on "Law and Metaphysics," I raise some questions...
May 2, 10:54 AM / Discourse.net / UM Police Want You to Know about the Crocodile in the LakeEmail this morning from UM Police: The University of Miami is aware that a crocodile has recently been seen in Lake Osceola. [MF note: the lake in the center of campus.] Signs are posted around Lake Osceola and near the … Continue reading → The post UM Police Want You to Know about th...
May 1, 08:03 PM / Discourse.net / Robot Law II is Now Available! (In Hardback)Robot Law: Volume II Edited by Ryan Calo, A. Michael Froomkin and Kristen Thomasen ‘Robot Law: Volume II assembles cutting-edge scholarship from leading experts, many of whom are regular contributors to the prestigious We Robot Conferences. This timely volume offers incisive … Continue rea...
April 18, 08:10 PM / Discourse.net / Coral Gables Commission Run-off April 22-Voter’s GuideThere are just two candidates in the coming run-off election for the Group III seat in Coral Gables (when will they adopt ranked-choice voting and save us this trouble????): You can have Richard Lara, the candidate whose campaign is bulging … Continue reading → The post Coral Gables C...
April 9, 10:01 AM / Neuroethics & Law Blog / "How Law Should Deal With Vulnerabilities in the Age of Neurotechnology?" by DeibelTalya Deibel (University College Cork) has written "How Law Should Deal With Vulnerabilities in the Age of Neurotechnology?" Please see that contribution below: Digital dependencies are the defining characteristics of our contemporary civilization. [link to source] Humans depend on large-scale...