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Legal Theory Blog

Legal Theory Blog

Covers constitutional theory, feminist legal theory, law and economics, normative legal theory and more. By University of Illinois Professor Lawrence B. Solum.

http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/
  • May 20

    Toh on Relativism & Just Gentium

    Toh on Relativism & Just Gentium
    Kevin Toh (San Francisco State University) has posted Legal Relativism and Jus Gentium (APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In "Partly Laws Common to All Mankind": Foreign Law in…
  • May 20

    Westen on Transferred Intent

    Westen on Transferred Intent
    Peter K. Westen (University of Michigan Law School) has posted The Significance of Transferred Intent (Criminal Law and Philosophy, vol. 7, pp. 321-50 (2013)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The doctrine of transferred intent (or…
  • May 20

    McBride on Probability in Court

    McBride on Probability in Court
    Ennis McBride (Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law) has posted The Practical Application of Probability in Court: Advancing Science or Timeless Art? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The application of probability to issues of…
Rank this Week: 15

Law at the End of the Day

Law at the End of the Day

Focuses on issues and the differences in how the law relates to economic organizations, political organizations, religious, ethnic and family organizations. By Penn State Dickinson School of Law Professor Larry Catá Backer.

http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/
  • May 20

    Chinese SOEs in Latin America--CSR and Culture

    Chinese SOEs in Latin America--CSR and Culture
    There has been much attention paid to the practices of Chinese multinationals, especially its State Owned Enterprises, in Africa (e.g., Lucy Corkin, "China's Emerging Multinationals in Africa," The Africa Journal, Spring 2007; Chris Alden,…
  • May 12

    Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Excludes Makers of Reconstituted Tobacco Leaf in the U.S. and China

    Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund Excludes Makers of Reconstituted Tobacco Leaf in the U.S. and China
    On May 8, 2013, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance published its decision to exclude the American company Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc. and the Chinese company Huabao International Holdings Limited from the investment universe of the …
  • May 9

    Xi Jinping's Constitutional Vision: Speech on the 30th Anniversary of the 1982 Constitution

    Xi Jinping's Constitutional Vision: Speech on the 30th Anniversary of the 1982 Constitution
    In the wake of the transition of leadership in China at the end of 2012, there has been a notable amount of attention paid to issues of constitutional structure and integrity.  These movements have been met with a certain amount of…
Rank this Week: 159

43(B)log

43(B)log

Covers false advertising and intellectual property issues. By Professor Rebecca Tushnet.

http://tushnet.blogspot.com/
  • May 20

    Never steal anything from someone you can't outrun: Warner Bros. defeats infringement claim

    Never steal anything from someone you can't outrun: Warner Bros. defeats infringement claim
    Fortres Grand Corporation v. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., No. 3:12-cv-00535 (N.D. Ind. May 16, 2013) McCarthy has said that there’s “surprisingly little” case law on whether a fictional company or product using the same…
  • May 20

    Allegedly false equivalence statement triggers insurer's duty to defend

    Allegedly false equivalence statement triggers insurer's duty to defend
    JAR Laboratories LLC v. Great American E & S Ins. Co., 2013 WL 1966386 (N.D. Ill.) JAR sued its insurer seeking a declaration of a duty to defend it in an underlying suit filed by its competitor TPU, which distributes Lidoderm, a…
  • May 20

    No reasonable consumer would think diet soda "all-natural"

    No reasonable consumer would think diet soda "all-natural"
    Viggiano v. Hansen Natural Corp., --- F.Supp.2d ----, 2013 WL 2005430 (C.D. Cal.) Viggiano brought the usual California claims, along with federal warranty claims, based on Hansen’s diet Premium Sodas labeled as containing “all…
Rank this Week: 17

Legal Ethics Forum

Legal Ethics Forum

By Professors John Dzienkowski, Brad Wendel, John Steele, David Hricik, Andrew Perlman, David McGowan, Laura Appleman, Steve Lubet, Anita Bernstein, Don Burnett, and Steve Berenson..

http://www.legalethicsforum.com/blog/
  • May 20

    The DOJ briefs opposing the Florida and Kentucky ethics opinions on IAC waivers -- and the Virginia opinion

    The DOJ briefs opposing the Florida and Kentucky ethics opinions on IAC waivers -- and the Virginia opinion
    To follow up on a prior post, below are the DOJ briefs asking that the Florida and Kentucky opinions on IAC waivers be vacated. And here is the Virginia opinion, LEO 1857 (which strikes me as overreaching, even though my...
  • May 20

    Recent Conference on the OLC Torture Memo

    Recent Conference on the OLC Torture Memo
    [Tigran Edlred passes along this news.] For those with a continuing interest in the OLC torture memos (which have been discussed extensively on LEF), you might be interested in a recent symposium hosted by the New England Journal on…
  • May 20

    Bruce Green, "Federal Criminal Discovery Reform: A Legislative Approach"

    Bruce Green, "Federal Criminal Discovery Reform: A Legislative Approach"
    Article. Given that this is the 50th anniversary of Brady, and given all the inadequacies we've seen in the DOJ's exercise of that duty, isn't it time for a legislatve solution? Abstract: In general, discovery is far narrower in federal...
Rank this Week: 1

The Race to the Bottom

The Race to the Bottom

A faculty-student collaboration on corporate governance. By Professor J. Robert Brown, Jr.

http://www.theracetothebottom.org/home/
  • May 20

    Public Benefit Corporations in Colorado: PBCs As Compared to Benefit Corporation

    Public Benefit Corporations in Colorado: PBCs As Compared to Benefit Corporation
    Colorado has adopted, effective April 1, 2014, the public benefit corporation act of Colorado (the “PBCA”) that is similar to legislation being considered in Delaware, but completely different from the model benefit corporation…
  • May 20

    Public Benefit Corporations in Colorado: The Shareholder’s Right to Enforce

    Public Benefit Corporations in Colorado: The Shareholder’s Right to Enforce
    Colorado has adopted, effective April 1, 2014, the public benefit corporation act of Colorado (the “PBCA”) that is similar to legislation being considered in Delaware, but completely different from the model benefit corporation…
  • May 18

    Concession Theory and Listeners’ Right

    Concession Theory and Listeners’ Right
    Two weeks ago I posted the abstract from the most recent draft of my latest paper, Rehabilitating Concession Theory, ___ OKLA. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming).  Last week I highlighted one of the key arguments I make in the paper, which is a…
Rank this Week: 73

Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof…

Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog

By Texas Tech University School of Law Professor Gerry W. Beyer.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof/
  • May 20

    Life Insurance v. Annuitie

    Life Insurance v. Annuitie
    Both life insurance and annuities have tax deferral benefits. Annuities offer steady income, while life insurance protects your family in the event of your death. However, many believe the tax benefits are outweighed by administration costs…
  • May 20

    A New Book On California Community Property

    A New Book On California Community Property
    Charlotte K. Goldberg, (Professor of Law, Los Angeles) recently published the revised fourth edition of, Examples & Explanations: California Community (4th ed. 2013). A description from amazon of the book is below: Using the Examples…
  • May 20

    Mere Friendship Insufficient Ground to Set Aside Beneficiary Designations on Non-Probate Asset

    Mere Friendship Insufficient Ground to Set Aside Beneficiary Designations on Non-Probate Asset
    In In re Estate of Abernethy, 390 S.W.3d 431 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2012, no pet.), Decedent and Beneficiary were very close personal friends. In addition, Beneficiary was a certified public accountant who prepared tax returns for Decedent.…
Rank this Week: 18

Althouse

Althouse

Covers the law and news. From University of Wisconsin Law Professor Ann Althouse.

http://althouse.blogspot.com/
Rank this Week: 51

religiousleftlaw

religiousleftlaw

Politically progressive law professors from various religious traditions discuss law and cognate subjects from their unique perspectives: Legal theory, politics, and comparative theology.

http://www.religiousleftlaw.com/
  • May 20

    Teresa Forcades, the radical Catalan nun on a mission ...

    Teresa Forcades, the radical Catalan nun on a mission ...
    "Sister Teresa Forcades is one of Catalonia's foremost political figures, but uniquely for a faith-led figure in Spain, her ideology is feminist and left-wing. Against a backdrop of continued economic contraction and austerity, she spoke to…
  • May 19

    Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)

    Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)
    Today is the birthday of Malcolm X. By way of celebration, I leave you with three provocative books discussing his life and ideas: Cone, James. Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare? (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books,…
  • May 19

    The Marxist Spirituality of C.L.R. Jame

    The Marxist Spirituality of C.L.R. Jame
    I found occasion once before to post something on the “cricketing Marxist,” C.L.R. James, and now I’d like to draw your attention to a piece by Kenan Malik on “the 50th anniversary of C.L.R. James’ wonderful,…
Rank this Week: 661

Doorey's Workplace Law Blog

Doorey's Workplace Law Blog

Covers Canadian labour and employment law. By Professor David Doorey.

http://www.yorku.ca/ddoorey/lawblog
  • May 20

    Upcoming Work Law Conference

    Upcoming Work Law Conference
    It’s a busy time for labour and employment law academics. I, like many other scholars in work law and industrial relations, am bogged down right now in preparing papers for upcoming academic conferences.  This means fewer blog…
  • May 9

    My New Academic Papers on Labour Law

    My New Academic Papers on Labour Law
    One thing I do on this website is promote Canadian academic scholarship in labour and employment law.   You can always find links to many of the best academic papers in the field, from Canadian and foreign academics, on this list of SSRN…
  • May 7

    Osgoode Hall Law School’s, “Oh, the Cases You’ll Know”

    Osgoode Hall Law School’s, “Oh, the Cases You’ll Know”
    My favorite children’s poem, with a twist, as read by faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School.  
Rank this Week: 1421

Irish Law Updates

Irish Law Updates

Updates on Irish and Northern Irish Law. By Darius Whelan.

http://www.ucc.ie/law/irishlaw/blogger/blogger.html
  • May 20

    CFP: Compensation Culture or Accident Culture? Comparative Tort Law Reform in the 21st Century

    CFP: Compensation Culture or Accident Culture? Comparative Tort Law Reform in the 21st Century
    International Commercial and Economic Law Research Group, School of Law, University of LimerickCompensation Culture or Accident Culture?Comparative Tort Law Reform in the 21st CenturyCall for PapersJune 2014 will mark the 10th…
  • May 20

    Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, 24th & 25th May 2013

    Irish Society of Comparative Law Annual Conference, 24th & 25th May 2013
    The School of Law at NUI Galway will host the Irish Society of Comparative Law 5th Annual Conference on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of May 2013 in Galway. The theme for the Irish Society of Comparative Law’s Annual Conference 2013 is…
  • Apr 17

    Events in April 2013 and after

    Events in April 2013 and after
    I've updated the listings of events at www.irishlaw.org/events/.  Here's the current list:Tue. 23 April 2013:The Histories of International Law: Dealing with Eurocentrism - Martii Koskenniemi, NUI…
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Antitrust & Competition Policy…

Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog

Edited by Professors D. Daniel Sokol and Shubha Ghosh.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/antitrustprof_blog/
Rank this Week: 12

PrawfsBlawg

PrawfsBlawg

By Professors Dan Markel, Ethan J. Leib, Rob Howse, Paul Horwitz, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Steve Vladeck and Orly Lobel.

http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/
  • May 20

    Beware of "Town of Greece" Bearing Gift

    Beware of "Town of Greece" Bearing Gift
    The Supreme Court has granted cert. in Town of Greece v. Galloway, a case out of the Second Circuit involving prayers given by guest chaplains before monthly town board meetings. Here is the SCOTUSBlog page, and here's the Second Circuit…
  • May 20

    Sex, People with Disabilities, Prostitution, and Universal Health Care: Reflections on "The Sessions"

    Sex, People with Disabilities, Prostitution, and Universal Health Care: Reflections on "The Sessions"
    One of my favorite initiatives at Harvard Law School, where I teach, is that faculty members get to offer an optional 10-12 student not-for-credit "First-Year Reading Groups" on a topic of interest to them that is related to law in…
  • May 17

    Non-State Law and Enforcement

    Non-State Law and Enforcement
    As I mentioned in my last post, I've been doing some thinking about what it means to be non-state law and looking to different types of non-state law - such as international law or religious law - to consider some common dynamics that…
Rank this Week: 275

Sentencing Law and Policy

Sentencing Law and Policy

By Moritz College of Law Professor Douglas A. Berman.

http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/
Rank this Week: 49

Opinio Juris

Opinio Juris

International law and international relations by Chris Borgen, Peggy McGuinness et al.

http://opiniojuris.org
  • May 20

    Guest Post: The Human Rights Impact of Drone Strike

    Guest Post: The Human Rights Impact of Drone Strike
    by Jonathan Horowitz [Jonathan Horowitz is writing in his personal capacity. He is the Associate Legal Officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative’s National Security and Counterterrorism Program.] When assessing the legality of…
  • May 20

    Weekday News Wrap: Monday, May 20, 2013

    Weekday News Wrap: Monday, May 20, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee last week that the U.S. would be at war with al-Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under the…
  • May 19

    Guest Post: Official Act Immunity – Getting the Answers Right

    Guest Post: Official Act Immunity – Getting the Answers Right
    by Ingrid Wuerth by Ingrid Wuerth [Ingrid Wuerth is Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at Vanderbilt University Law School.]  Yes, this is another post on foreign official immunity, prompted in part by the…
Rank this Week: 42

Leiter Reports: A Group Blog

Leiter Reports: A Group Blog

Covers academic freedom, authoritarianism and fascism, intelligent design and more. By University of Texas Professor Brian R. Leiter and others.

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/
Rank this Week: 542

Religion Clause

Religion Clause

By University of Toledo College of Law Professor Howard M. Friedman.

http://religionclause.blogspot.com/
  • May 20

    Supreme Court Grants Certiorari In City Council Invocation Case

    Supreme Court Grants Certiorari In City Council Invocation Case
    The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to weigh in on the extensively litigated issue of opening city council meetings with prayer.  It granted certiorari in Town of Greece, NY v. Galloway, (Docket No. 12-696, cert. granted 5/20/2013).…
  • May 20

    Britain Releases 2011 Census Data On Religious Affiliation and Characteristics of Population By Religion

    Britain Releases 2011 Census Data On Religious Affiliation and Characteristics of Population By Religion
    Last week, Britain's Office for National Statistics released new data from the 2011 census on religious affiliation for residents of England and Wales. The data on numbers and median age shows 33.2 million Christians, 14 million with no…
  • May 20

    Recent Articles of Interest

    Recent Articles of Interest
    From SSRN:Anissa Helie and Marie Ashe, Multiculturalist Liberalism and Harms to Women: Looking Through the Issue of 'The Veil', (19 U.C. Davis Journal of International Law & Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-65).David H. Schraub, Our Divine…
Rank this Week: 34

Neuroethics & Law Blog

Neuroethics & Law Blog

An interdisciplinary forum for legal and ethical issues related to the brain and cognition. By University of San Diego School of Law Professor Adam Kolber.

http://kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/
  • May 20

    "Cognitive Enhancement, Rational Choice and Justification"

    "Cognitive Enhancement, Rational Choice and Justification"
    Cognitive Enhancement, Rational Choice and Justification by Veljko Dubljević has been published in the most recent issue of Nueroethics: Abstract This paper examines the claims in the debate on cognitive enhancement in neuroethics that…
  • May 17

    "Treating Yourself as an Object: Self-Objectification and the Ethical Dimensions of Antidepressant Use"

    "Treating Yourself as an Object: Self-Objectification and the Ethical Dimensions of Antidepressant Use"
    Treating Yourself as an Object: Self-Objectification and the Ethical Dimensions of Antidepressant Use by Ginger A. Hoffman has been published in the most recent issue of Neuroethics: Abstract In this paper, I offer one moral reason to eschew…
  • May 15

    "Ideals of Student Excellence and Enhancement"

    "Ideals of Student Excellence and Enhancement"
    Ideals of Student Excellence and Enhancement by Gavin G. Enck has been published in the most recent issue of Nueroethics: Abstract Discussions about the permissibility of students using enhancements in education are often framed by the…
Rank this Week: 1215

International Law Reporter

International Law Reporter

Edited by Professor Jacob Katz Cogan.

http://ilreports.blogspot.com/
Rank this Week: 91

M & A Law Prof Blog

M & A Law Prof Blog

By Professors Brian J.M. Quinn, Afra Afsharipour, and Michael A. Woronoff.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mergers/
  • May 20

    Delaware arbitration argument

    Delaware arbitration argument
    In case you missed it, you can listen to last week's arguments before a panel of the Third Circuit online. Here is the audio file. -bjmq Update ... starting to think that Federal judicial vacancies has risen to crisis levels...
  • May 17

    Delaware arbitration update

    Delaware arbitration update
    As I noted yesterday, the Delaware Coalition for Open Government and the Chancery Court were before a panel of the Third Circuit arguing the merits of Delaware's arbitration procedure. Tom Hals of Reuters was there and he thinks the…
  • May 16

    Delaware Arbitration in front of Third Circuit today

    Delaware Arbitration in front of Third Circuit today
    The question of the constitutionality of Delaware's Chancery arbitration program is before the Third Circuit today. I think my position on this program is pretty clear -- I'm for openness. See here for past posts on the topic. I've got...
Rank this Week: 99

Discourse.net

Discourse.net

By University of Miami law professor Michael Froomkin. Covers civil liberties, the Internet, Guantanamo, Iraq attrocities, politics and more.

http://www.discourse.net/
  • May 20

    Crawford on Telco Monopolie

    Crawford on Telco Monopolie
    Nice profile of Susan Crawford, highlighting her campaign against telco internet monopolies, by David Carr in today’s NYT. A taste of Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future: Susan Crawford, a professor at [Cardozo School of…
  • May 17

    EFF Is Accepting Bitcoins Again

    EFF Is Accepting Bitcoins Again
    EFF Will Accept Bitcoins to Support Digital Liberty. This follows a 2-year moratorium. One key difference from past practice: EFF will liquidate any Bitcoins it receives as soon as it gets them. EFF’s announcement pointed me to this…
  • May 15

    The Red Lionfish of Politic

    The Red Lionfish of Politic
    How can this be? Most people are now familiar with President’s Obama’s proposal to cut Social Security by reducing the annual cost of living adjustment. While the final formula is somewhat convoluted, the net effect is to reduce…
Rank this Week: 82

Lawfare

Lawfare

Coveres actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the nation’s laws and legal institutions, including cybersecurity, Guantánamo habeas litigation, targeted killing, biosecurity, universal jurisdiction, the Alien Tort Statute, and the state secrets privilege. By Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith and Robert Chesney.

http://www.lawfareblog.com/
  • May 20

    Thoughts on a Blue-Sky Overhaul of Surveillance Laws: Approach

    Thoughts on a Blue-Sky Overhaul of Surveillance Laws: Approach
    [Editor's Note: below you'll find the third in a series of posts by David Kris on surveillance reform.  In the first two installments, David introduced his subject, and then overviewed the challenges facing an attempt to overhaul the…
  • May 19

    Thoughts on a Blue-Sky Overhaul of Surveillance Laws: Challenge

    Thoughts on a Blue-Sky Overhaul of Surveillance Laws: Challenge
    [Editor's Note: this is the second in a series of four posts by David Kris, on large-scale surveillance reform.  The first, an introduction, can be found here.  Below, David discusses the challenges facing any "blue-sky"…
  • May 19

    Thursday Obama Speech on Counterterrorism

    Thursday Obama Speech on Counterterrorism
    The President will give a speech on counterterrorism at the National Defense University on Thursday, reports the WP: A White House official, speaking Saturday on the condition of anonymity to describe the speech in advance, said…
Rank this Week: 16

Slaw

Slaw

A Canadian cooperative weblog on all things legal.

http://www.slaw.ca
  • May 20

    Avoid the Unintentional Expansion of Retainer

    Avoid the Unintentional Expansion of Retainer
    Here’s the scenario: A lawyer is retained to assist a client with a tort claim and an accident benefits claim. The client, meanwhile, has been informed that the long-term disability (LTD) benefits provided by her employer’s group…
  • May 20

    Monday's Mix

    Monday's Mix
    Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada's award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from forty-one recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as…
  • May 19

    2013 LawTechCamp

    2013 LawTechCamp
    Technology is the game-changer in the legal field, and yet most lawyers are not very technologically inclined. LawTechCamp seeks to change that, bringing together non-lawyers from the tech sector and the lawyers who are eager to identify the…
Rank this Week: 47

Faculty News

Faculty News

From Duke University School of Law.

http://law.duke.edu/facschol/
Rank this Week: 1847

ContractsProf Blog

ContractsProf Blog

By Texas Wesleyan University Law Professor Franklin G. Snyder, with Contributing Law Professors Miriam A. Cherry, Meredith R. Miller, Keith A. Rowley, and D.A. Jeremy Talman

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/
  • May 20

    Boilerplate Symposium VI: Brian Bix on Democratic Degradation

    Boilerplate Symposium VI: Brian Bix on Democratic Degradation
    This is the sixth in a series of posts reviewing Margaret Radin's Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights and the Rule of Law. Brian Bix is the Frederick W. Thomas Professor for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law and Language at...
  • May 20

    Boilerplate Symposium, Week 2

    Boilerplate Symposium, Week 2
    For those who missed it, last week we posted five responses to Margaret Radin's Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights and the Rule of Law. We heard from: Peter Alces on consent; Theresa Amato on proposed solutions to the problems...
  • May 16

    New in Print

    New in Print
    Sean M. Collins and R. Mark Isaac, Holdout: Existence, Information, and Contingent Contracting. 55 J.L. & Econ. 793 (2012) Christine Spinella Davis,et al., Recent Developments in Business Litigation, 48 Tort Trial & Ins. Prac. L.J.…
Rank this Week: 191

ImmigrationProf Blog

ImmigrationProf Blog

By Professors Kevin R. Johnson, Bill O. Hing, Michael A. Scaperlanda and Evelyn H. Cruz.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/
  • May 20

    Enforcing the Border: Jurisprudence Meets the Practice of Enforcement

    Enforcing the Border: Jurisprudence Meets the Practice of Enforcement
    As I blogged yesterday, I'm in El Paso, TX all week teaching a course on the enforcement of immigration law at the border. In class, the students and I will discuss several cases, including United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S....
  • May 20

    Crossing Borders: Immigration and Gender in the America

    Crossing Borders: Immigration and Gender in the America
    Each year, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University hosts a conference that explores the role of gender in a significant aspect of the human experience. This year’s conference was titled “Crossing Borders:…
  • May 19

    Blogging from El Paso, TX: Course on Enforcement of Immigration Law at the Border

    Blogging from El Paso, TX: Course on Enforcement of Immigration Law at the Border
    For the third year in a row, I will be teaching a one-week course in El Paso, Texas, which examines the ways in which the federal government enforces immigration law at the border and the legal, civil rights, social, cultural...
Rank this Week: 31

MauledAgain

MauledAgain

Covers tax law, legal education, the First Amendment, religion, and law generally. By Villanova law professor James Edward Maule.

http://mauledagain.blogspot.com/
  • May 20

    Taxing Activities or Things That Can Disappear

    Taxing Activities or Things That Can Disappear
    The Philadelphia School District is in deep financial trouble. The combination of declining tax revenues, caused in part by a shrinking tax base and in part by all sorts of problems with the Philadelphia real property tax, and increasing…
  • May 17

    Julian Block Looks at Marriage, Divorce, Affairs, Engagements, and Cohabitation in the Shadow of Tax

    Julian Block Looks at Marriage, Divorce, Affairs, Engagements, and Cohabitation in the Shadow of Tax
    Julian Block has delivered the 2013 edition of “Tax Tips for Marriage and Divorce,” the previous edition of which I reviewed favorably in Julian Block Talks Tax with Married, Divorced, and Other Couples. This edition is no less…
  • May 15

    Tax Ignorance Gone Viral

    Tax Ignorance Gone Viral
    A week ago, in How Difficult Is It to Count Tax Words?, I revisited the pervasive ignorance manifesting itself in absurd declarations of Internal Revenue Code length, in terms of pages, words, or both. A dutiful reader has alerted me to more…
Rank this Week: 509

CYB3RCRIM3

CYB3RCRIM3

Features observations on technology, law and lawlessness. By University of Dayton Susan Brenner.

http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/
  • May 20

    Harassment, Emails and the Passionate Fan

    Harassment, Emails and the Passionate Fan
    In 2011, Paul Michael Glaser obtained a six-month civil harassment restraining order under California Code of Civil Procedure § 527.6 against Pamela Meserve. Glaser v. Meserve, 2013 WL 1460339 (California Court of Appeals 2013). When…
  • May 17

    Bestiality, Encryption and Probation

    Bestiality, Encryption and Probation
    According to this and other news stories, in mid-April of 2010 Douglas Spink was arrested “for running what authorities say appears to be a bestiality farm in Washington state in which visitors could engage in all sorts of twisted sex…
  • May 15

    Emails as Property of Decedent’s Estate . . .

    Emails as Property of Decedent’s Estate . . .
    After their brother John died, the co-administrators of his estate – his sister Marianne Ajemian and his brother Robert Ajemian – brought a “declaratory judgment action in the Probate and Family Court, seeking a declaration…
Rank this Week: 439

ataxingmatter

ataxingmatter

Tax law and economics by Linda Beale

http://ataxingmatter.blogs.com/tax/
  • May 20

    Useful information on 501(c)(4)s and 527s and the IRS's scrutiny dilemma

    Useful information on 501(c)(4)s and 527s and the IRS's scrutiny dilemma
    A fellow tax professor at Loyola University, Ellen Aprill, has put together a useful powerpoint on the way political activity comes into play in deciding whether an organization is eligible for 501(c)(4) status or should instead be treated as…
  • May 19

    The GOP and media frenzy over IRS scrutiny of tax exempts continue

    The GOP and media frenzy over IRS scrutiny of tax exempts continue
    Since I last wrote about this issue, the acting commissioner of the IRS Steve Miller has been forced to resign, and another IRS official has also been fired. Heads are rolling because the tax-exempt office used what seemed a likely...
  • May 14

    Remember When the IRS Targeted Liberals?

    Remember When the IRS Targeted Liberals?
    Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald has a story that provides additional context on the difficulty the IRS has in determining appropriate filters for political activity. See "When the IRS targeted liberals: Under George W. Bush, it went after the…
Rank this Week: 260

Legal History Blog

Legal History Blog

Offers scholarship, news and new ideas in legal history. By professor Mary L. Dudziak.

http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/
  • May 20

    Kornhauser, "The Consistency of Conservative Tax Policy"

    Kornhauser, "The Consistency of Conservative Tax Policy"
    Marjorie E. Kornhauser (Tulane University School of Law) has posted "The Consistency of Conservative Tax Policy." It is forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review. Here's the abstract:Modern American tax policy is in a state of…
  • May 19

    New Release: Beever, "Forgotten Justice"

    New Release: Beever, "Forgotten Justice"
    New from Oxford University Press: Allan Beever, Forgotten Justice: Forms of Justice in the History of Legal and Political Theory (2013). Here's a description from the Press:Throughout much of the history of political philosophy, many of the …
  • May 19

    The Roberts Court, Reinventing Government, and More: This Week in the Book Page

    The Roberts Court, Reinventing Government, and More: This Week in the Book Page
    In the Washington Post Jeffrey Rosen reviews The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution (Simon and Schuster).  According to Rosen:The great strength of Coyle’s book is the depth and balance of her reporting. She…
Rank this Week: 57

TaxProf Blog

TaxProf Blog

By University of Cincinnati Law Professor Paul L. Caron and Ron Jones.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/
  • May 20

    Bergin: The IRS Is in Big Trouble

    Bergin: The IRS Is in Big Trouble
    Christopher E. Bergin (President and Publisher, Tax Analysts), The IRS Is in Big Trouble, 139 Tax Notes 951 (May 20, 2013): Bergin discusses the catastrophic ramifications of the IRS’s recent apology for mishandling the applications of…
  • May 20

    The IRS Scandal: Really?!

    The IRS Scandal: Really?!
    (Hat Tip: Ann Murphy.)
  • May 20

    The IRS Scandal, Day 11

    The IRS Scandal, Day 11
    Daily Beast: The IRS Will Come for You Next, Unless Congress Acts Now Business Insider: How One Overworked IRS Worker Ignited The Tea-Party Targeting Scandal Forbes: 6 Questions Everyone Should Ask the IRS, by Robert W. Wood The Hill: Paul…
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PropertyProf Blog

PropertyProf Blog

By Professors D. Benjamin Barros and Alfred L. Brophy.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/property/
  • May 20

    Judge Orders Los Angeles BID to Dissolve

    Judge Orders Los Angeles BID to Dissolve
    A reminder that not everyone loves Business Improvement Districts: A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered the Arts District Business Improvement District to dissolve, capping a long feud between the entity and a group of property…
  • May 20

    Foundling Token

    Foundling Token
    Slate has a captivating piece on "foundling tokens." During the 18th century, mothers who left their babies at London’s Foundling Hospital would deposit something small, but unique, with the hospital to serve as an identifier in…
  • May 20

    Yoo on the Emerging Technologies and Property Theory

    Yoo on the Emerging Technologies and Property Theory
    Christopher Yoo (Penn) has posted Beyond Coase: Emerging Technologies and Property Theory (Penn) on SSRN. Here's the abstract: In addition to prompting the development of the Coase Theorem, Ronald Coase’s landmark 1959 article on The…
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Family Law Prof Blog

Family Law Prof Blog

By Professor Andrea B. Carrol of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, and Margaret Ryznar.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/family_law/
  • May 20

    Windsor v. United State

    Windsor v. United State
    From Angelique Devaux, writing for I-CONnect: To marry or tax me. This could be the modern Shakespeare quote heard in the oral arguments last March 27th at the US Supreme Court in the pending case Windsor v. United States. But...
  • May 18

    Movie Review

    Movie Review
    From Time: When Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) clears customs at de Gaulle Airport, his estranged wife Marie (Bèrénice Bejo) speaks to him urgently on the other side of a glass partition. They communicate with sign language and words the audience…
  • May 17

    Jones "Judges, Family Law, Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia"

    Jones "Judges, Family Law, Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia"
    Elizabeth N. Jones (Western State College of Law) has posted her article Judges, Family Law, Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia, pp. 626-629, Robert E. Emery, ed., 2013, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This is a chapter in an...
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Dorf on Law

Dorf on Law

By Cornell Law School Professor Michael Dorf and his friends.

http://www.dorfonlaw.org/
  • May 19

    Two Broader Lessons of the IRS/Tea Party "Scandal"

    Two Broader Lessons of the IRS/Tea Party "Scandal"
    By Mike Dorf Today I'll discuss two ways in which the IRS "scandal" reflects broader features of contemporary American politics.  I'll follow up tomorrow with a post that asks the question whether there is any realistic prospect of…
  • May 17

    The Downside of Outsourcing Poltiical Oversight to Comedian

    The Downside of Outsourcing Poltiical Oversight to Comedian
    -- Posted by Neil H. Buchanan At apparently the same time that I was writing my Dorf on Law post yesterday, the editorial board of The New York Times was reaching essentially the same conclusions.  Although they did not focus as much…
  • May 16

    The IRS Mess Is Already Badly Misunderstood -- And the Distorted Narrative Will Only Get Worse

    The IRS Mess Is Already Badly Misunderstood -- And the Distorted Narrative Will Only Get Worse
    -- Posted by Neil H. Buchanan Last Friday, a news story broke that quickly came to be known as "the IRS scandal."  Even the just-the-facts-ma'am TaxProf Blog has taken to posting daily collections of news stories under that title,…
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ProfessorBainbridge.com

ProfessorBainbridge.com

Commentary on law, business, economics and culture. By UCLA School of Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge.

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/
  • May 19

    Drip by drip, the IRS scandal gets worse

    Drip by drip, the IRS scandal gets worse
    Even the MSM can't look away anymore: There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS' targeting of conservative groups. Inspector General Russell... [[ This is a content summary only.…
  • May 19

    How much does a law professor make?

    How much does a law professor make?
    Above the Law continues its relentless march through the top state schools in the US News' ranking of law schools. It's previously reported on: How Much Does Your Law Professor Make? Michigan Law... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my…
  • May 19

    Commencement: Conservatives need not apply

    Commencement: Conservatives need not apply
    Sadly, I missed this year's commencement at UCLA law school, due to a bad summer cold that had me sidelined for several days. If I had been able to attend, I would have had to sit through a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my…
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Verdict

Verdict

Provides legal analysis and commentary on topical legal news and cases.

http://verdict.justia.com/
  • May 19

    Changing Our Attitudes Toward Health Policie

    Changing Our Attitudes Toward Health Policie
    Justia columnist and attorney David Kemp discusses two recent issues that have come up in recent news related to health and health policy. The first issue Kemp discusses is that of breast cancer prevention and treatment, in light of a New…
  • May 16

    President Obama’s Burgeoning Scandals—Benghazi, IRS, and AP’s Telephone Logs—Are All Smoke and No Fire

    President Obama’s Burgeoning Scandals—Benghazi, IRS, and AP’s Telephone Logs—Are All Smoke and No Fire
    Justia columnist and former counsel to the president John Dean discusses each of the three scandals on which the media are currently focusing. After commenting on the nature of modern political scandals generally, Dean focuses on the…
  • May 15

    Abuse in the Sports World, and What Needs to Be Done About It

    Abuse in the Sports World, and What Needs to Be Done About It
    Justia columnist and Cardozo law professor Marci Hamilton discusses abuse in the world of sports, including school, amateur and professional sports. While child sex abuse has been a problem in this world, physical, emotional, and verbal…
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Adjunct Law Prof Blog

Adjunct Law Prof Blog

Focuses on issues of interest to adjunct law professors, including labor law, employment law, employee benefits law and education law issues. By Adjunct Law Professor Mitchell H. Rubinstein.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/
  • May 19

    Employers must use the revised federal Employment Eligibility Verification Form (Form I-9) after May 7, 2013.

    Employers must use the revised federal Employment Eligibility Verification Form (Form I-9) after May 7, 2013.
    The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, advises employers that after May 7, 2013*only the newly revised federal Employment Eligibility Verification Form (Form I-9)** may be used New York State…
  • May 19

    Files on Conflicts of Interest

    Files on Conflicts of Interest
    Tyler, Texas attorney and State Bar of Texas President Buck Files has written an informative essay on conflicts of interest which appears in the April 2013 Voice for the Defense (page 15). The essay uses the federal case U.S. v....
  • May 18

    No Race To the Courthouse in Utah Adoption

    No Race To the Courthouse in Utah Adoption
    In many situations, the first to file a lawsuit in a controversy obtains procedural and sometimes substantive advantages over later filers. The Utah Supreme Court held last week, however, that winning the race to the courthouse carries no…
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Constitutional Law Prof Blog

Constitutional Law Prof Blog

By Professors Steven D. Schwinn and Ruthann Robson

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/
  • May 19

    AP CEO Gary Pruitt Explains Why Justice Probe Violates First Amendment

    AP CEO Gary Pruitt Explains Why Justice Probe Violates First Amendment
    Associated Press CEO (and former First Amendment lawyer for McClatchy newspapers) Gary Pruitt gave his first television interview today to Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation and blasted the Justice Department seizure of AP phone records as…
  • May 16

    Tsesis on the History of the Declaration of Independence

    Tsesis on the History of the Declaration of Independence
    Prof. Alex Tsesis (Loyola Chicago) joined me on Thursday for a talk on his book For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence (Oxford 2012). This was a terrific read; I highly recommend it. But...
  • May 16

    Senate Judiciary Approves Srinivasan for D.C. Circuit

    Senate Judiciary Approves Srinivasan for D.C. Circuit
    The Senate Judiciary Committee today unanimously approved Deputy Solicitor General Sri Srinivasan for a slot on the D.C. Circuit. WaPo reports here. We previously posted here, with links to backgrounds and profiles. SDS
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Underbelly: A Journal of Soft…

Underbelly: A Journal of Soft Information

By Professor Jack Ayer.

http://underbelly-buce.blogspot.com/
  • May 19

    The Tesla Ban: Markets for Thee, not for Me

    The Tesla Ban: Markets for Thee, not for Me
    Much good fun this week over the efforts by the North Carolina legislature to make life difficult for Tesla thereby, as everybody except the participants appear agreed, insulating a favored constituency from the depredations of the free…
  • May 18

    Business/Finance Books: Embarrassment of Riche

    Business/Finance Books: Embarrassment of Riche
    Wading into Jean Strouse's Morgan: American Financier, may I take a moment to marvel at how much more and better business/economic history of the United States we have today than we had back when I was a tad,  the best I can remember…
  • May 17

    Louisville Redux

    Louisville Redux
    I spent a good (sic) part of my 20s in Louisville, which I remember as an old Midwestern (sic-not southern) metal-bashing town.  My law school commute buddy was the first guy I knew to carry a portable phone.   Or maybe it was…
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Empirical Legal Studies

Empirical Legal Studies

Covers emerging empirical legal scholarship, conference updates and empirical claims. Edited by Professors Michael Heise, Theodore Eisenberg, William Ford, Sara Benesh, William Henderson, Frank Cross, Carolyn Shapiro, anbd Christopher Zorn

http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/
  • May 19

    Call For Papers: Midwest Law & Economics Association

    Call For Papers: Midwest Law & Economics Association
    Bob Lawless (Ill.) asked me to post the following Call for Papers for the 2013 MLEA, and I am delighted to do so. University of Illinois College of Law will host the conference and the deadline for proposals is August...
  • May 10

    Empirical Legal Scholars and "Special" Responsibilitie

    Empirical Legal Scholars and "Special" Responsibilitie
    A recent post by David Schwartz (Chicago-Kent)--wondering whether empirical legal scholars should shoulder "special ethical responsibilities"--ignited a fascinating (and timely) discussion over at Concurring Opinions. Two reasons…
  • May 3

    Helpful Reminders on How To Minimize Errors in Empirical Research

    Helpful Reminders on How To Minimize Errors in Empirical Research
    Responding to the recent debacle involving a grad student uncovering a blundering error in a paper by noted Harvard economists (here), Betsey Stevenson (Mich.) and Justin Wolfers (Mich.) initiated a (now growing) list of suggestions on how to…
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Ideas

Ideas

By Professor David Friedman.

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
  • May 19

    A Different Sort of Bullying

    A Different Sort of Bullying
    There has been a good deal of talk in recent years about the evils of bullying and what to do about it. Almost all of what is discussed seems to be bullying of low status people by low status people, largely schoolchildren bullying…
  • May 18

    A Question for Bleeding Heart Libertarian

    A Question for Bleeding Heart Libertarian
    In a recent post, I took issue with Jason Brennan's claim that "You might be a cartoon libertarian if: 1. You think the term “social justice” has no definite meaning in philosophy today." One point that came up in the discussion…
  • May 16

    Sometimes the Good Guys Win

    Sometimes the Good Guys Win
    A moving account by a young lawyer who succeeded in getting his client acquitted of a bunch of charges that could have put him in in jail for the rest of his life. The client's offense was shooting two police officers in the legs--when the…
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Faculty Blog - Faculty of Law,…

Faculty Blog - Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

By Barbara Billingsley, Cameron Hutchison, Daniel Mol, David Cheifetz, Eran Kaplinsky, Eric Adam, Erin Nelson, James Muir, Lewis Klar, Q.C., Mark Amman, Moin A Yahya, Peter Carver, Russ Brown, Steven Penney

http://ualbertalaw.typepad.com/faculty/
  • May 19

    Harvard and Academic Freedom

    Harvard and Academic Freedom
    It is bad enough that Canadian universities are slowly turning their back on the notion of academic freedom, but when Harvard University starts down that path, things are looking bleak for the West's future.
  • May 18

    400 parts per million, or why we're totally F*#%#$

    400 parts per million, or why we're totally F*#%#$
    Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, our most harmful global warming gas, have hit 400 parts per million. It's this kind of rosy news item that Alyssa Battistoni must have borne in mind when she composed one of the best…
  • May 17

    May 2013 Issue of the Toronto Law Journal is Online

    May 2013 Issue of the Toronto Law Journal is Online
    The May issue of the Toronto Law Journal – which publishes pithy comments on recent cases and new legislation of interest to practicing lawyers and legal academics alike – is online here. Commentaries this month cover a new clearing…
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Animal Blawg

Animal Blawg

Covers animal law, ethics and policy. By Professor David N. Cassuto, Professor Luis E. Chiesa and law student Suzanne McMillan.

http://animalblawg.wordpress.com
  • May 19

    The tragedy of happy meat

    The tragedy of happy meat
    Kathleen Stachowski  Other Nations If you’re familiar with the Onion, you know it’s the print and online precursor to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. Fake news, heavy on satire. That’s not to say that people,…
  • May 13

    Hey Chicago–animal suffering lies behind that scenic splendor

    Hey Chicago–animal suffering lies behind that scenic splendor
    Kathleen Stachowski  Other Nations Dear Chicago: We need to talk. You can trust me–I’m practically a native daughter. Heck, from my hometown in Indiana, we can look across Lake Michigan and see your skyline (well, on a clear…
  • May 2

    The wolverine: one gnarly dude…who needs our help

    The wolverine: one gnarly dude…who needs our help
    Kathleen Stachowski  Other Nations Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the stinkiest, snarliest, gnarliest, wildest of them all? Why, Gulo gulo–the amazing wolverine–of course! And the gnarly little…
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Land Use Prof Blog

Land Use Prof Blog

By Professors Will Cook, Chad D. Emerson, Matthew J. Festa, Ngai Pindell and Jamie Baker Roskie.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/
  • May 19

    A response from Bill Fischel on school district consolidation, and a query on why special districts continue to fascinate scholar

    A response from Bill Fischel on school district consolidation, and a query on why special districts continue to fascinate scholar
    I was delighted over the weekend to see a response from Bill Fischel (Dartmouth) on my blog post series about local government units. Bill is undoubtedly well known to many readers of this blog for his work on land use...
  • May 18

    Edwards on the Paradoxes of Restitution

    Edwards on the Paradoxes of Restitution
    Mark Edwards (William Mitchell) has posted The Paradoxes of Restitution, forthcoming in the West Virginia Law Review. The abstract: Restitution following mass dispossession is often considered both ideal and impossible. Why? This article…
  • May 18

    Stern on State Legislative Checks and Judicial Taking

    Stern on State Legislative Checks and Judicial Taking
    Here's another recently-posted paper from Stephanie Stern (Chicago-Kent): Protecting Property Through Politics: State Legislative Checks and Judicial Takings, forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. The abstract: In the 2010 Supreme Court…
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CrimProf Blog

CrimProf Blog

Criminal law issues and commentary. Edited by University of San Diego School of Law Dean & Professor of Law Kevin Cole, contributions by Professors Lawrence A. Alexander, Donald A. Dripps, Yale Kamisar, Adam J. Kolber, and Jean Ramirez.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/
  • May 19

    Top-Ten Recent SSRN Download

    Top-Ten Recent SSRN Download
    in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply. RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 4572 The Dangers of Surveillance Neil M. Richards, Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law, Date posted to database: March…
  • May 18

    "Trial Weighs Importance of Arrests in Police Stops"

    "Trial Weighs Importance of Arrests in Police Stops"
    From the New York Times: The so-called hit rate — often measured as a percentage of stops that lead to an arrest or summons — has long been at the center of the fraught public debate over the stop-and-frisk tactic....
  • May 18

    Bowers on Counsel in Plea Bargaining

    Bowers on Counsel in Plea Bargaining
    Josh Bowers (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted Two Rights to Counsel (Washington and Lee Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This forthcoming essay argues that there is not one constitutionally recognized…
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Ratio Juris

Ratio Juris

Offers perspectives on judicial decisionmaking and the legal process. By Professors Jim Chen, Alfred Brophy, Stefanie Lindquist, R.J. Lipkin, Chad M. Oldfather, Lori A. Ringhand, and Elizabeth Weeks.

http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/
  • May 19

    Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)

    Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)
    Today is the birthday of Malcolm X. By way of celebration, I leave you with three provocative books discussing his life and ideas:Cone, James. Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare? (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books,…
  • May 19

    The Marxist Spirituality of C.L.R. Jame

    The Marxist Spirituality of C.L.R. Jame
     I found occasion once before to post something on the “cricketing Marxist,” C.L.R. James, and now I’d like to draw your attention to a piece by Kenan Malik on “the 50th anniversary of C.L.R.  James’…
  • May 18

    Torture Bibliography (updated)

    Torture Bibliography (updated)
    Here’s the latest draft of my bibliography on torture: Torture: Moral, Legal & Political Dimensions—A Basic BibliographyWASHINGTON — “A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the…
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