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October 13, 8:23 PM / MoneyLaw / Is SSRN and USN&WR All That Different?Like many others I make use of SSRN. But then again I also read the USN&WR rankings. Now I think they may be equally meaningful or meaningless. Recently a friend and I coauthored an article and posted it. In a few days we were receiving the top ten for recently submitted articles. It's not that the..
October 13, 7:10 PM / The Volokh Conspiracy / Going Easy on "Deranged" Charges that Seem like Mere Exaggerations of a Deeper Truth.One reason why "deranged" rhetorical excesses proliferate in our political discourse is that most partisans are far less willing to condemn their own side's excesses than those of the opposition. Some...
October 13, 7:10 PM / The Volokh Conspiracy / Political "Derangement" and Political Ignorance:Co-blogger Orin Kerr is right to point out that many partisans are engaging in overheated rhetoric and unfair charges against their opponents. This problem is not unique to recent American...
October 13, 6:55 PM / Concurring Opinions / Are Politicians Talking Down the Economy?A few months back, Sen. Chuck Schumer was criticized (and threatened ) for correctly predicting a run on IndyMac. The event offered an interesting window into the psychology of credit spirals. The basic question, highlighted by newly minted Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in a slightly different contex..
October 13, 6:10 PM / The Volokh Conspiracy / Now There's a Thematically Linked Name for You:The man administering the $700 billion financial bailout is Neel Kashkari....
October 13, 6:10 PM / The Volokh Conspiracy / How Many People Would Want To Immigrate to the U.S.?I asked this question earlier this year (stressing that it's just a question and not an answer):...
October 13, 6:06 PM / Lessig Blog / McCain/Palin to YouTube: Get realThe McCain/Palin campaign has written a fantastic letter to YouTube demanding that they start getting real about the response they're giving to notice and take-down demands of material that "are clearly privileged under the fair use doctrine." Here is the letter. Bravo to the campaign.
October 13, 6:03 PM / Althouse / "I understand that there's a deep human impulse to vehemently deny that subliminal messages are effective or even being attempted."Jac thinks McCain is responsible for manipulating people into thinking that Obama is a terrorist. blog advertising blog advertising
October 13, 5:56 PM / Conglomerate / Paul KrugmanEveryone seems to be linking to Tyler Cowen for thoughts on Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize in Economics. Tyler offers a nice summary of Krugman's accomplishments and a nifty pocket interpretation of the award: "This was definitely a 'real world' pick and a nod in the direction of economists who ar..
October 13, 5:43 PM / Conglomerate / The Financial Crisis and DelawareAfter reading the headlines today, are you wondering, "What financial crisis?" If so, you need to get some perspective. Last week was awfully scary, but unless you pulled all of your money out of the market (and if you did that, what were you thinking!!! ), you still have a long row to hoe. Even if..
October 13, 5:43 PM / Althouse / The Crumpled Rose Tavern.Pull up a chair. blog advertising blog advertising
October 13, 5:30 PM / Althouse / "John McCain to be someone suffering from an increasingly obvious and embarrassing deficit, both cognitive and physical."Let's hear from Christopher Hitchens: The train-wreck sentences, the whistlings in the pipes, the alarming and bewildered handhold phrases—"My friends"—to get him through the next 10 seconds. I haven't felt such pity for anyone since the late Adm. James Stockdale humiliated himself as Ross Pero..
October 13, 5:05 PM / Althouse / Desperate advice for McCain.You might have noticed that Bill Kristol called the McCain campaign "pathetic" ... ... and wrote an op-ed saying McCain ought to fire everyone: What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over... There are still enough doubts about Obama to allow McCain to win. But McCain needs to make..
October 13, 4:40 PM / Balkinization / The Unbearable Complacence of BeingAssume that your child has come down with a dread disease, perhaps fatal, but perhaps "only" likely to leave him/her with severe problems for the rest of his/her life. You hear tell that there is new drug about to enter the market, on January 20, 2009, but it's being held up until then by bureaucrat..
October 13, 4:32 PM / Concurring Opinions / Globalizing the Curriculum InitiativeHere at Pacific McGeorge we have embarked upon a program of integrating international and comparative law issues into all relevant law school courses --- what we call the “ globalizing the curriculum initiative .” The idea is to ensure that all law school graduates have some exposure to interna..
October 13, 4:27 PM / SCOTUSblog / Argument Recap: Crawford v. NashvilleOn Wednesday, the Court heard argument in Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville (06-1595), and while it remains to be seen whether the justices will decide only the question presented or will instead generally broaden the anti-retaliation statute, their comments and questions pointed tow..
October 13, 4:14 PM / madisonian.net / Christopher Sprigman and Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Cue ‘Barracuda'”Chris and Siva's terrific Op-Ed ran is today's Washington Post . Here are the opening paragraphs: After vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin finished her big speech at the Republican National Convention, the 1977 song “Barracuda,” by the band Heart, blared out over the roar of the crow..
October 13, 4:10 PM / The Volokh Conspiracy / Which Side Has the Worse Case of [Insert Name] Derangement Syndrome?:My post below on [Insert Name] Derangement Syndrome raised the question of which side had a worse case of the disease: The right or the left?...
October 13, 3:40 PM / How Appealing / "Linda Greenhouse, legendary New York Times reporter looks back on three decades chronicling the Supreme Court--including her run-ins with the journalism ethics police.""Linda Greenhouse, legendary New York Times reporter looks back on three decades chronicling the Supreme Court--including her run-ins with the journalism ethics police." Charles Kaiser has this interview at Radar Online. And the September 2008 issue of The Third Branch newsletter also contained an ..
October 13, 3:18 PM / PrawfsBlawg / Blogging Without TenureI know many of us blog without tenure, but is it really a good idea? Some advise that blogging doesn't help. For one, it may not always look like it, but blogging takes time. And that time could be spent writing law review articles. That's the theory, at least, although in my experience it is nice t..
October 13, 3:15 PM / SCOTUSblog / Conference Call: Justices Asked to Take Up Fake ID CasesThe following column, featuring a selected petition up for consideration at the Justices’ private conference on October 17, appears in today’s edition of Legal Times (available to subscribers here ). To access the certiorari-stage filings, or see other cases on the list of petitions to watch at..
October 13, 3:10 PM / The Volokh Conspiracy / It is All George Bailey's Fault:So says Ross Douthat in a clever piece in this weekend's WaPo. Who knew that Mr. Potter was the real hero?...
October 13, 3:10 PM / The Volokh Conspiracy / Short Titles Are Apparently in Fashion,at least if the titles of forthcoming articles in the October issue of the Stanford Law Review are any guide:...
October 13, 2:52 PM / Underbelly / We Are All GSEs NowSomebody must have made this point before but I haven't seen it so here goes. The question is: how far do we blame the goverrnment for the mortgage meltdown and ensuing general debacle. The Republican mantra is some variant on “Jimmy Carter did it”--home loans to poor people, plus the implicit g..
October 13, 2:51 PM / Workplace Prof Blog / To Shave or Not to Shave: That is the Question in This RFRA Workplace CaseIn the last two weeks or so, my employment discrimination law class has been studying disparate impact litigation. One of the more challenging cases that we study is the Fitzpatrick case from the 11th Circuit concerning the no-beard policy of...
October 13, 2:29 PM / Workplace Prof Blog / Symposium: Respecting Expecting: The 30th Anniversary of the PDAThe Yale Journal of Law and Feminism will be holding a Symposium entitled: Respecting Expecting: The 30th Anniversary of the PDA, on November 7-8, 2008. Here are some highlights: Please join the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism at a...
October 13, 2:00 PM / TaxProf Blog / Burman Presents A Blueprint for Tax Reform and Health Reform Today at Loyola-L.A.Leonard E. Burman (Urban Institute) presents A Blueprint for Tax Reform and Health Reform at Loyola-L.A. today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. The commentator is Michael D. Intriligator (UCLA, Department of Economics). Here is the abstract: Burman...
October 13, 1:54 PM / Crooked Timber / The Name of This Band is Exploding HeadsAs Kieran notes in comments below, the comments thread to Tyler Cowen's (perfectly reasonable) Krugman post is pretty hilarious. But given Krugman's place of pride in the wingnut demonology, I'm sure that this is only a mere scraping of what's out there on the Internets today. It furthermore occurs..
October 13, 1:45 PM / Patent Docs /Technorati Profile
October 13, 1:44 PM / Legal Theory Blog / 2008 Supreme Court Audio Up at OyezThe 2007 Term audio is now available at the Oyez Project . This release includes all opinion announcements. Earlier this month, Oyez released all of the 1981 Term audio. Here is the link.
October 13, 1:43 PM / SCOTUSblog / SCOTUSwiki Preview: Oregon v. IceIn the post below, Lyle offers a preview of tomorrow’s argument in Oregon v. Ice (07-901), a sentencing case from Oregon. For more on the case, including the briefs at both the certiorari and merits stage, visit the case page on SCOTUSwiki . A test of the role of judges and juries in imposing sen..
October 13, 1:40 PM / Concurring Opinions / Doctorow’s Discontent with ContentReaders of this blog know that I am a fan of Cory Doctorow’s work . In addition to his fiction, Cory writes nonfiction. His main topics are technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future. I know this because I read his work and his latest book, ©ontent , gathers his thoughts on ..
October 13, 1:35 PM / PrawfsBlawg / Follow up to "Is There a Place for Non-Traditional Scholarship?"Yes! There is! And more than one! See the comments for direction. Thank you all for your advice on placement, as well as for the positive feedback on the piece. Some follow-up points upon reflection: I think that Howard and "anon." are probably right that legal academia is not quite as confining in ..
October 13, 1:28 PM / Concurring Opinions / Is today a holiday?“Who are your heroes?” This is one question that I’ve never been able to answer comfortably, whether asked years ago by a college admissions officer or recently by a documentary filmmaker. The problem with picking a public or private hero these days is that everyone comes as a package – and..
October 13, 1:10 PM / The Volokh Conspiracy / [Insert Name] Derangement Syndrome:You've probably noticed that with the election around the corner, a lot of people are saying some very extreme things about politicians. Politicians they don't support are not just weak, or...
October 13, 1:08 PM / Althouse / Pie.(Via Drudge .) IN THE COMMENTS: Peter Hoh said: Soon after Drudge released this tape, Obama was quoted saying, "Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of saying anything about pie, any hint of any kind of references to baked goods there." blog advertising blog advertising
October 13, 12:54 PM / WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com / Maker of Dreamsicle Figurines Wins Tidy Verdict over KPMGIt's not often that a Big Four accounting firm gets hit with a multi million-dollar jury verdict, as most either get dismissed or settled. But on Friday, KPMG LLP was hit with a $31.8 million verdict in a case alleging that the accounting firm negligently audited the books of a New Jersey company. ..
October 13, 12:50 PM / Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog / The Commission adopts Communication on the application of State aid rules to measures taken in relation to financial institutions in the context of the current global financial crisisPosted by D. Daniel Sokol DG Competition has release a on its website The application of State aid rules to measures taken in relation to financial institutions in the context of the current global financial crisis. Two of the introductory...
October 13, 12:48 PM / Commercial Law / October 11 2008 George Bush G7 SpeechAs many of you know, on Saturday, President Bush gave a speech on the financial crisis to the G7 . Not surprisingly, this speech avoids any blame for the current financial crisis, instead focusing on the need for countries to present a unified front in terms of response to the crisis. Even the IMF's..
October 13, 12:45 PM / Concurring Opinions / Perfect AlbumsAlbum, the word may evoke a creaky, leather-vinyl, cardboard tome with faded Polaroids, instamatics, and school portraits. It may remind one of a black gold-based vinyl disc spinning at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute. It does not always remind one of a smaller, shiny disc full of digits unleashed by..
October 13, 12:45 PM / Legal Theory Blog / Call for Papers: Feminist Legal Theory & Law at the University of BaltimoreCALL FOR PAPERS Applied Feminism: How Feminist Legal Theory is Changing the Law This call for papers seeks submissions for the University of Baltimore School of Law’'s Second Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference. The conference will be held at the University of Baltimore on Friday,..
October 13, 12:21 PM / The Situationist / The Situation of Being “(un)American”Shankar Vedantam has written another terrific (situationist) article, "Does Your Subconscious Think Obama Is Foreign?," published in today's Washington Post. Here are some excerpts. * * * A few years ago, psychologists [and Situational contributor] Mahzarin Banaji and Thierry Devos showed the name..
October 13, 12:15 PM / Dorf on Law / Is Growth Good?I spent a year in New Zealand in the 1980s, at a time when that country's economy was still struggling to make the transition from essentially exporting agricultural commodities into something more dynamic. A popular joke was to describe the government in those days as having unwittingly adopted the..
October 13, 12:10 PM / The Volokh Conspiracy / Very Funny Essay:By Hillel Levin, and only 6 pages long:...
October 13, 12:10 PM / TaxProf Blog / Why Both Obama and McCain Will Raise TaxesReason: Adventures in Fiscal Fairyland: Why Both Obama and McCain Will Raise Taxes, by Steve Chapman: When it comes to taxes, this election presents a clear choice. On one side you have a Democrat who proposes to raise taxes. On...
October 13, 12:00 PM / TaxProf Blog / WSJ: Obama's Tax Cut for 95% of Americans Is an IllusionEditorial in today's Wall Street Journal: Obama's 95% Illusion; It Depends on What the Meaning of "Tax Cut" Is: One of Barack Obama's most potent campaign claims is that he'll cut taxes for no less than 95% of "working families."...
October 13, 12:00 PM / proSOXblog - Headline News / Wachovia and the Issue of Adequate Enforcement of Listing Standards by the Stock Exchange (Part 2)Wachovia agreed to lock up the transaction on behalf of Wells Fargo by turning over 40% of the Bank's voting power to the purchaser (by issuing ten shares of supervoting stock, perhaps a new record for the number of votes per share). With that percentage, Wells Fargo need not worry about any ..
October 13, 11:50 AM / WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com / Kotz in the Act: SEC Inspector Heaps More Criticism on SECPardon us for belatedly turning our attention to two newsworthy reports released by the SEC's inspector general last week. The reports follow an IG report released last month that criticized the SEC's role in the collapse of Bear Stearns, and a fascinating Portfolio magazine article on the decline ..
October 13, 11:42 AM / Feminist Law Professors / Racism, Sexism and Political BloggingA McCain supporter is getting well deserved censure for posting a picture Obama paired with the image of a noose, with the words “asphyxtiation, the Fucking Solution.” You can read about it and see the image here . This is just odious. (Via Pam's House Blend, where there is more analysi..
October 13, 11:31 AM / TaxProf Blog / Top 15 Feeder Law Schools for Associate Positions at 15 Elite Law FirmsBrian Leiter (Chicago) lists the Top 15 feeder law schools for associate positions in 15 elite law firms concentrated on the two coasts (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Sullivan & Cromwell; Skadden Arps; Davis Polk &...
October 13, 11:22 AM / Legal History Blog / Call for Papers: Law and Society AssociationSubmissions are now open for the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association in Denver, Colorado, May 28 - 31, 2009. The LSA regularly hosts innovative panels on legal history. In recent years it has been an especially vibrant meeting for transnational and comparative legal history. Well-known..
October 13, 11:18 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Something Rotten In DenmarkA public reprimand--the severe sanction that could be imposed in light of the resignation from office--was imposed by the South Carolina Supreme Court on a`magistrate for two instances of misconduct. One matter involved the following misconduct: On August 19, 2004,...
October 13, 11:14 AM / Lessig Blog / NEWS FLASH: I don't "defen[d] piracy"Sorry to disappoint, but my new book, Remix , is not " A Defense of Piracy ," whatever the Wall Street Journal's headline writers may think.
October 13, 11:00 AM / PrawfsBlawg / On Greenawalt on ReligionI'm back from a weekend jaunt to South Bend -- the "gateway to Mishawaka," as Rick Garnett once described it to me -- and I'm happy to say that the Dome is doing as well as ever and that the Law School is flourishing. The occasion was a roundtable discussion on Kent Greenawalt's Religion and the Con..
October 13, 10:55 AM / Concurring Opinions / Are Pitchforks Next?This is a story from last week that should have gotten more attention. Richard Fuld, CEO of Lehman, was knocked out by one of his bankers last week as he worked out in the firm's in-house gym in London. "He was on a treadmill with a heart monitor on. Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he w..
October 13, 10:55 AM / Legal Profession Blog / "Magic" Explanation RejectedThe South Carolina Supreme Court imposed a two-year suspension in a`bar discipline matter involving charges of misconduct in six matters. The attorney had contended that two findings of fact should be rejected. The court agreed that there was insufficient evidence...
October 13, 10:52 AM / The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog / Liability for Insufficient RisksProfessors David Gilo and Ehud Guttel recently presented their paper, Liability for Insufficient Risks , at the Law and Economics Workshop . This is a forum where academic working papers are presented and discussed among interested faculty and students. It's been well documented that a negligence r..
October 13, 10:47 AM / SCOTUSblog / Argument Recap: Winter v. NRDCStanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic student Menaka Kalaskar offers the following discussion of Wednesday’s argument in Winter v. NRDC. Her complete write-up of the case is available on the Winter wiki page, here . The Court focused on three main points during Solicitor General Garre’..
October 13, 10:43 AM / Adjunct Law Prof Blog / Hiring Bubble About To BurstHiring Booms, but Firms See Bust Ahead is an important Oct. 13, 2008 Legal Times article. The article reports that D.C. firms increased staff about 4% this year, but because of the economy that is likely to change. As the...
October 13, 10:40 AM / WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com / Rough Times for Lawyers? Not Necessarily in the U.K.The credit crisis has not been kind to many law firms, as we have chronicled in these pages. Profits are off, the demand for legal services is down in many areas, and layoffs abound. Surprisingly, though, hotshot lawyers — at least in the U.K. — can still name their price. According to ..
October 13, 10:40 AM / Adjunct Law Prof Blog / Are Medical Residents Students For FICA Purposes??Univ. of Chicago v. U.S., ___F.3d___(7th Cir. Sept. 23, 2008) is a little noticed tax law case. Students are exempt for FICA taxes. Query, whether medical residents are students? The court does not set forth a blanket rule and instead...
October 13, 10:38 AM / Althouse / The Quiet Corner Café.Talk about anything. blog advertising blog advertising
October 13, 10:25 AM / TRUTH ON THE MARKET / GCP on the Section 2 Report SchismGlobal Competition Policy has a trio of interesting articles on the DOJ Section 2 Report, and FTC response, which I've blogged about here and here from Tim Brennan, William Kolasky and Mark Popofsky. The abstract from Popofsky's article gives a sense of the scope and importance of the issues here..
October 13, 10:18 AM / Concurring Opinions / Thoughts on non-traditional legal writingAt Prawfs, Hillel Levin has a post asking for suggestions on where to place a short, somewhat tongue-in-cheek essay that nevertheless explores important legal ideas (I am looking forward to reading the paper). He is looking for suggestions as to where to place the article, noting that the writing g..
October 13, 10:17 AM / PrawfsBlawg / Irony DepartmentI know this is last week's news, but compare this: McCain's Homeownership Resurgence Plan The McCain Resurgence Plan would purchase mortgages directly from homeowners and mortgage servicers, and replace them with manageable, fixed-rate mortgages that will keep families in their homes. . . . The new ..
October 13, 10:15 AM / Conglomerate / Blogger Comparative Advantage: Administrative v. International LawInternational law exists and it is real, but it might be worth noting how differently it operates than does domestic administrative law. When the financial crisis was local, we could evaluate the government's actions as lawyers might - were those actions consistent with its legal authority?&n..
October 13, 10:09 AM / PrawfsBlawg / Macey on Corporate GovernanceJonathan Macey's new book Corporate Governance: Promises Kept, Promises Broken arrives this week. It is available now on Amazon. Here is the publisher's blurb. In the wake of the Enron meltdown and other corporate scandals, the United States has increasingly relied on Securities and Exchange Commiss..
October 13, 10:06 AM / Underbelly / Go Read WellerSome useful stuff going up over at Credit Slips from a bloggger you probably don't know: Christian E. Weller, of The University of Massachusetts at Boston and the Center for American Progress, doing a visitor turn, and it could hardly be more timely. For some unterrified clarity of vision, go here .
October 13, 10:06 AM / Conglomerate / A Busy Sunday for the FedOnce again, the emergency means the usual rules are being disregarded for Wells Fargo-Wachovia, who got the Fed to meet on Sunday to approve their application for a merger: In light of the unusual and exigent circumstances affecting the financial markets, the weakened financial condition of Wachovi..
October 13, 10:05 AM / Althouse / "Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there."Palintalk. Is that going to work? blog advertising blog advertising
October 13, 10:04 AM / WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com / ST&B Bags Treasury Work, a Glitch at Cleary and More from the MeltdownAre the clouds finally parting? Everyone keeps saying that the worst is yet to come, but today, with the stock market up some 600 points, we're partying like it's 2007. Still, we've put down the Champagne glasses long enough to give you what you need to know on the law-and-meltdown front. The $700 ..
October 13, 10:00 AM / CONFLICT OF LAWS .NET / Japan Accedes to CISGWe do not usually report on uniform law, but Japan was one of the few major trading powers which had not acceded to the CISG. The report of the United Nations Information Service is here. Is the UK next? [Click on the title above to view the full item on Conflict of Laws .net]
October 13, 9:54 AM / ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society / Federal Judge Knocks 'Pro Bono' Legal Work As 'Anti-Social'U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs took aim at pro bono work during a Federalist Society gathering in Rochester, N.Y. According to the article in The Daily Record of Rochester: Pro bono work primarily is an "antisocial" and self-serving activity lawyers us..
October 13, 9:30 AM / How Appealing / "Accused 9/11 planner entitled to a laptop, judge rules""Accused 9/11 planner entitled to a laptop, judge rules": Today in The Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg has an article that begins, "Guantanamo guards must furnish confessed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his four alleged co-conspirators with enough battery power to use their prison camp l..
October 13, 9:30 AM / Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog / Optimal Sequential Investigation Rules in Competition LawPosted by D. Daniel Sokol Wolfgang Kerber, Philipps University Marburg - Department of Business Administration and Economics, Jürgen-Peter Kretschmer, Philipps University Marburg, and Georg von Wangenheim, University of Kassel discuss Optimal Sequential Investigation Rules in Competition Law. ABSTR..
October 13, 9:28 AM / The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog / When Did Marriage Cease to be a Sacrament?”Americans, especially observant Christians, would revolt if state governments passed laws defining what constitutes baptism (sprinkling or full immersion?) or what constitutes valid communion (wine or grape juice?) or who could hear confession or who co..
October 13, 9:16 AM / PrawfsBlawg / More on non-traditional legal writingI started to include this in the comment I left to Hillel's post on where to place a short, tongue-in-cheek essay that nevertheless explores important legal ideas (I am looking forward to reading the paper). He is looking for suggestions as to where to place the article, noting that the writing game..
October 13, 9:13 AM / Underbelly / W/o Comment (Almost)"We've Got Them Just Where We Want Them"-- John McCain Who was the general (Pappy Boyington?) who, when told he was surrounded, responded: "They Can't Get Away From Us Now!"
October 13, 9:10 AM / How Appealing / "Lawyer challenges city limits on gun sales""Lawyer challenges city limits on gun sales": The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today contains an article that begins, "An attorney who wants to arrange gun transfers from his East Carson Street office is trying to void city rules on where firearms can be sold in a case that has become a cause celebre fo..
October 13, 9:10 AM / The Volokh Conspiracy / Krugman Wins Nobel Prize:This morning, the 2008 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Princeton economist Paul Krugman "for his analysis of trade patterns and location...
October 13, 9:08 AM / Balkinization / The Royal Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred NobelOK, I'll offer a deal to all law-and-economics sorts: Lefties will refrain from saying, "As Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman points out in the New York Times, ..." if they will refrain from saying, "Nobel Prize winner [Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, fill in the blanks at will] pointe..
October 13, 9:06 AM / Althouse / McCain, too, is a memoirist.We keep talking about "Dreams From My Father." What about "Faith of My Fathers"? His 1999 memoir, “Faith of My Fathers,” for the first time put his prison camp ordeal at the center of his public persona. In its pages, he recalled the experience as much more than a trial: a turning point from glo..
October 13, 9:00 AM / Underbelly / Semi-Appreciation: SosekiChez Buce just completed a readaloud Natsume Soseki's Kokoro , by all accounts one of the most populer, perhaps emblematic, novels of the Meiji Era in Japan. It was an unsettling experience. On the one hand, I have to agree that it is smoothly and competently written; that the characters are plausib..
October 13, 8:59 AM / SCOTUSblog / SCOTUSwiki Preview: Bartlett v. StricklandIn the post below, Lyle offers a preview of tomorrow’s argument in Bartlett v. Strickland (07-689), a voting rights case from North Carolina. For more on the case, including the briefs at both the certiorari and merits stage, visit the case page on SCOTUSwiki . Federal voting rights law allow..
October 13, 8:54 AM / How Appealing / "Gay Marriage Ruling Ended Long Journey Of Soul""Gay Marriage Ruling Ended Long Journey Of Soul": Yesterday's edition of The Hartford Courant contained this lengthy article .
October 13, 8:46 AM / TRUTH ON THE MARKET / Krugman WinsHere's the announcement . The Prize is for his “analysis of trade activity and location of economic activity.” Tyler Cowen has a lengthy write up with lots of links and information. The WSJ article is here . Here's Krugman in the NYT : “There was something very beautiful..
October 13, 8:46 AM / Feminist Law Professors / Imagining Law: On Drucilla CornellSUNY Press has published Imagining Law: On Drucilla Cornell , an edited volume of essays by authors in philosophy, political science and law. Each discusses the importance of Professor Cornell's work. The last essay in the book is Professor Cornell's response. The Table of Contents is availab..
October 13, 8:43 AM / Legal Theory Blog / Call for Papers: Law and Society in DenverLaw and Society Association Call for Participation Due Date: December 8, 2008 http://www.lawandsociety.org/ann_mtg/am09/call.htm The 2009 Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association Thursday, May 28 through Sunday, May 31, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in the vibrant city of Denver. Theme: Law, Power,..
October 13, 8:43 AM / Concurring Opinions / And the Winner Is...As a student of international economic law, I'm glad to report Paul Krugman's receipt of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences... For all his good political analysis in recent years, those who know his economic analysis in the realm of international trade mostly still consider it hi..
October 13, 8:42 AM / Althouse / America proven frivolous.At least as far as movies are concerned: Warner Bros.’ Leonardo DiCaprio-Russell Crowe starrer “Body of Lies” and Universal’s “The Express” were sacked at the weekend box office as moviegoers once again resisted Middle Eastern terrorist pics and sports dramas. Instead, Disney holdover �..
October 13, 8:40 AM / WSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com / Broad Tossers? A Cook’s Tour? Overstock.com Settles With GradientOverstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne travels down an aisle on his Go-ped scooter at his company Long before John Mack and Dick Fuld thought short sellers were destroying every company, Patrick Byrne thought short sellers were destroying his, aided by the research firm Gradient Analytics. In 2005, Mr. By..
October 13, 8:30 AM / How Appealing / "Abortion Rights on the Ballot, Again""Abortion Rights on the Ballot, Again": This editorial appears today in The New York Times.
October 13, 8:25 AM / How Appealing / In commentary available online from FindLawIn commentary available online from FindLaw: Edward Lazarus has an essay entitled " The Supreme Court, the Election, and the Recession: How Does the Court Fit In, and How Might Changing Circumstances Change the Court and Its Role? " And Steve Sanders has an essay entitled " American Legal Conservat..
October 13, 8:22 AM / Althouse / "This is the swamp in which Obama operated...."The NY Post says we shouldn't just mistrust Ayers for his past; we should mistrust him for his present: Ayers' work funding radical "education" groups in Chicago came just in the last 12 years. And he teamed up directly with Obama on that.... "Proposals from groups focused on math/science achieveme..
October 13, 8:20 AM / How Appealing / "More judges under investigation; Experts call 5 ongoing probes of federal jurists unprecedented""More judges under investigation; Experts call 5 ongoing probes of federal jurists unprecedented": The Houston Chronicle today contains a front page article that begins, "U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent is the first federal judge to be indicted for alleged federal sex crimes, but he's only the late..
October 13, 8:20 AM / Legal History Blog / Sarkin and Fowler on Reparations for Historical Human Rights Violations -- the case of the Herero of NamibiaReparations for Historical Human Rights Violations: The International and Historical Dimensions of the Alien Torts Claims Act Genocide Case of the Herero of Namibia is a new article by Jeremy J. Sarkin, Hostra University School of Law and Carly Fowler. It appears in Human Rights Review (2008). Here'..
October 13, 8:16 AM / Althouse / "They reacted with casual glances when Jackie Kennedy came down the mountain to window-shop."Life in Thurmont. blog advertising blog advertising
October 13, 8:12 AM / Conglomerate / Fear, Greed, & Morality: Walking and Chewing Gum?It's so nice to have a chance to guest blog over here with many of my friends. For the next two weeks, I don't have to nudge (or noodge) Gordon and David Zaring when I've posted something resembling corporate or finance at Legal Profession Blog . Thanks, Gordon! I thought I'd star..
October 13, 8:11 AM / How Appealing / "We do not, by our decision today, intend to establish any general rule for personal jurisdiction in the internet context.""We do not, by our decision today, intend to establish any general rule for personal jurisdiction in the internet context." So writes a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in the eighth footnote to a ruling issued last Friday in a case involving a claim for trade..
October 13, 8:10 AM / The Volokh Conspiracy / Fear Itself, Con't:In a recent post, Eric Posner asks a very interesting question:...