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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 CatÃ¡ Backer.

http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/

Jun 19
The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in Business Enterprises--Law, Politics and Policy in the Construction of a Global Political Economy With Chinese Characteristic

The Role of the Chinese Communist Party in Business Enterprises--Law, Politics and Policy in the Construction of a Global Political Economy With Chinese Characteristic

I am starting research on the role of the Chinese Communist Party within private and public companies in China, and eventually, on the role of the CCP in Chinese companies operating abroad. The object is to try to understand the way in which…
Jun 18
On the Relationship Between the Chinese Communist Party and Non-State Enterprises--Translation of CCP Central Committee Policy “Opinions on Improving and Strengthening Party Organization’s Construction in Non-SOEs (Temporary)”

On the Relationship Between the Chinese Communist Party and Non-State Enterprises--Translation of CCP Central Committee Policy “Opinions on Improving and Strengthening Party Organization’s Construction in Non-SOEs (Temporary)”

The relationship between Communist Party and State has been the object of substantial work among Chinese and foreign academics. But perhaps more interesting is the emerging relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and private…
Jun 1
New Paper Posted: "State and Party in the Scientific Development of a Legitimate Rule of Law Constitutional System in China: The Example of Laojiao and Shuanggui"

New Paper Posted: "State and Party in the Scientific Development of a Legitimate Rule of Law Constitutional System in China: The Example of Laojiao and Shuanggui"

The City University of Hong Kong's Centre for Comparative and Chinese Law is hosting an International Conference on “The Rule of Law With Chinese Characteristics in Transition” to be held 5-7 June 2013 at the Connie…

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Nonprofit Law Prof Blog

Covers federal and state laws and cases affecting non-profits. By Professors David A. Brennan and Darryll K. Jones.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit/

Jun 19
Reporting Program Service Expenses on the 990

Reporting Program Service Expenses on the 990

Just as a follow up to yesterday's post on the Oregon spendig requirement, I took a quick look again at the Form 990 (go to page 10) and its instructions regarding the allocation of program service expenses (go to pages...
Jun 18
Oregon Now Requires 30% Program Spending

Oregon Now Requires 30% Program Spending

Thanks to Lloyd Mayer for pointing me to new legislation in Oregon that will disqualify state charitable contributions to organizations that spend less than 30% of their functional expenses on charitable programs. H.B. 2060 was signed into…
Jun 13
CNN to Showcase "Worst Charities" Investigation

CNN to Showcase "Worst Charities" Investigation

CNN's AC360 will tonight focus on the 50 Worst Charities investigation we blogged about yesterday. The show airs at 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. ET. I'll be watching; I hope you will, too. VEJ

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Concurring Opinions

Covers a broad range of legal topics. By Professors Daniel J. Solove, Kaimipono Wenger, Dave Hoffman, Nate Oman, Frank Pasquale, Deven Desai, Danielle Citron, Lawrence Cunningham, Sarah Waldeck, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Solangel Maldonado, Gerard Magliocca

http://www.concurringopinions.com

Nov 26
When is it ok to be "descriptive"

When is it ok to be "descriptive"

I presented a taxonomy of federal litigation today to a terrific audience at Rutgers-Camden. As I’ve covered in exhausting detail, the paper sets out to describe how lawyers organize causes of action together into complaints. It uses a…
Nov 26
Majoring in college sport

Majoring in college sport

Last year, I wrote about a proposal by Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post to allow college athletes to major in their sport, building a (hopefully) rigorous curriculum around participation on the team.
Nov 26
Cloture Reform-One Further Thought

Cloture Reform-One Further Thought

Both parties in the Senate appear to be gearing up for a showdown in January over the rules governing filibusters.

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Constitutional Law Prof Blog

By Professors Steven D. Schwinn and Ruthann Robson

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/

Jun 19
Can Aung San Suu Kyi Become Myanmar's President?

Can Aung San Suu Kyi Become Myanmar's President?

Reuters reports that the Myanmar Constitution may foil Aung San Suu Kyi's plans to become the country's next president in the general election in 2015. According to the report, the Myanmar Constitution "bars anyone married to a foreigner…
Jun 19
Common Cause Takes Filibuster Challenge to D.C. Circuit

Common Cause Takes Filibuster Challenge to D.C. Circuit

Common Cause this week pursued its case against the Senate filibuster at the D.C. Circuit when it filed its appellate brief, arguing that Judge Emmett G. Sullivan (D.D.C.) was wrong to dismiss the case last December and pressing its…
Jun 19
Arizona Voter Registration Case: No Pyrrhic Victory for the Fed

Arizona Voter Registration Case: No Pyrrhic Victory for the Fed

In response to Monday's ruling in Arizona v. InterTribal Council of Arizona, Inc., striking Arizona's requirement that voters show proof of citizenship above and beyond the oath of citizenship on the standard federal voter registration form,…

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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/

Jun 19
Pay-to-Delay Agreements and the Supreme

Pay-to-Delay Agreements and the Supreme

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis that permitted the Federal Trade Commission to sue pharmaceutical companies for potential antitrust violations when they enter into “pay-to-delay”…
Jun 19
New in Print

New in Print

Justin DuClos, The Etiology of a Malfunction in Democratic Processes. 45 Ariz. St. L.J. 53 (2013) Hilary Kao, Beyond Solyndra: Examining the Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program. 37 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 425…
Jun 18
Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Council

Weekly Top Tens from the Social Science Research Council

RECENT HITS (for all papers announced in the last 60 days) TOP 10 Papers for Journal of Contracts & Commercial Law eJournal April 19, 2013 to June 18, 2013 RankDownloadsPaper Title 1 228 The Hague Principles on Choice of Law...

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Legal Writing Prof Blog

By Professors Nancy Soonpaa, Sue Liemer, Coleen M. Barger and Mark E. Wojcik.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/

Jun 18
your students should read thi

your students should read thi

Michael Higdon has written a very helpful article for law students: The Legal Reader: An Expose, 43 New Mexico L. Rev. 77 (2013). (My apology for lacking the accent for "expo-zay" in this blog platform.) I'm still weighing just…
Jun 17
overcoming procrastination

overcoming procrastination

We all do it from time to time. C'mon, you're probably doing it right now, procrastinating by reading this blog. Two recent articles shed some useful light on why we procrastinate and how to help ourselves move on, to more...
Jun 16
quotable

quotable

"A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact." ~ Marcus Garvey (spl)

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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/

Jun 19
US EPA releases new edition of Our Built and Natural Environments profiling smart growth research

US EPA releases new edition of Our Built and Natural Environments profiling smart growth research

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just released a great report, Our Built and Natural Environments: A Technical Review of the Interactions Between Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality (2nd Edition), which updates a…
Jun 19
Lee on Eminent Domain's Just Undercompensation

Lee on Eminent Domain's Just Undercompensation

Brian Lee (Brooklyn) has posted Just Undercompensation: The Idiosyncratic Premium in Eminent Domain, 113 Colum. L. Rev. 593 (2013). Lee presents an interesting challenge to recent scholarship recognizing "confiscation of the…
Jun 18
Godsil on a Fair Housing Response to Gentrification

Godsil on a Fair Housing Response to Gentrification

Rachel Godsil (Seton Hall) has posted The Gentrification Trigger: Autonomy, Mobility, and Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, 78 Brook. L. Rev. 319 (2013). It's wonderful to have Rachel's civil rights scholarship back in the (urban)…

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Verdict

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

http://verdict.justia.com/

Jun 19
What Should We Think Now About the IRS? We Are All Paying the Price for Republicans’ Underfunding and Vilifying of the Tax Agency

What Should We Think Now About the IRS? We Are All Paying the Price for Republicans’ Underfunding and Vilifying of the Tax Agency

Justia columnist, George Washington law professor, and economist Neil Buchanan argues that the recent IRS flap should really be considered a non-scandal, for reasons he explains, although he notes that the agency did make a significant…
Jun 18
The Supreme Court Rejects Arizona’s Requirement That Voters Prove Their Citizenship—For Now

The Supreme Court Rejects Arizona’s Requirement That Voters Prove Their Citizenship—For Now

Justia columnist and Cornell law professor Michael Dorf comments on Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. There, as Dorf explains, a mostly united Supreme Court rejected Arizona’s efforts to…
Jun 17
No Unpaid Interns Need Apply: Why a Federal Court Got It Right in Finding Unpaid Interns to Really Be Employee

No Unpaid Interns Need Apply: Why a Federal Court Got It Right in Finding Unpaid Interns to Really Be Employee

Justia columnist and U. Washington law professor Anita Ramasastry comments on a recent ruling from a New York-based federal district judge regarding the legal status of unpaid internships. In the wake of the ruling, which held in favor of a…

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Health Law Prof Blog

By University of Cincinnati Law Professor S. Elizabeth Malloy.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/

Jun 14
Beyond Medicaid--How the Affordable Care Act Will Change Mental Health Treatment--and some helpful Apps for further research

Beyond Medicaid--How the Affordable Care Act Will Change Mental Health Treatment--and some helpful Apps for further research

This is a helpful article from a mental health perspective about how the Affordable Care Act will change mental health treatment. Given the volume of material health lawyers need to review about not just law directly but also health…
Jun 13
Tax credit litigation on the move

Tax credit litigation on the move

For those of you who thought we could forget about ongoing ACA litigation, here's a little update: the issue of premium assistance through tax credits for insurance purchased in federal exchanges is alive and well. The plaintiffs in the…
Jun 13
Breaking News - Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Patented

Breaking News - Supreme Court Rules Human Genes May Not Be Patented

According to a news release by the NYT: Human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. The case concerned patents held by Myriad Genetics, a Utah company, on genes that correlate with increased risk of hereditary...

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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/

Jun 19
Fetal Origin

Fetal Origin

From the Atlantic: Researchers in the increasingly influential field known as fetal origins—the study of how fetal conditions affect long-term health—have to be pretty creative. Running controlled experiments on pregnant women is, after…
Jun 18
5th Circuit on Breastfeeding

5th Circuit on Breastfeeding

From Law.com: While several new health studies health studies concerning breastfeeding are making the rounds, the topic has also been generating headlines in the employment law context, thanks to a recent Fifth Circuit ruling (as reported in…
Jun 17
Babies Sleeping in Cardboard Boxes--Normal in Finland

Babies Sleeping in Cardboard Boxes--Normal in Finland

From Updated News: For 75 years, Finland’s expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It’s like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped...

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Poverty Law Prof Blog

Covers global poverty, welfare and current affairs. By Professors Ezra Rosser and Lowell Kent Hull.

http://maximinlaw.wordpress.com

Jun 18
Not poverty law — but people are interested in Turkey now … So here is a link to some of my photos …

Not poverty law — but people are interested in Turkey now … So here is a link to some of my photos …

I am teaching at my school’s summer program in Istanbul and visited Taksim Square today . . . it was very calm and though there are minor protests throughout the city, the police presence at Gezi Park is very impressive. ……
Jun 18
New Article: “Womenomics for Nursing Growth: Making the Case for Work Time Flexibility and Mother-Friendlier Workplaces”

New Article: “Womenomics for Nursing Growth: Making the Case for Work Time Flexibility and Mother-Friendlier Workplaces”

New Article: Gabriela Steier, Womenomics for Nursing Growth: Making the Case for Work Time Flexibility and Mother-Friendlier Workplaces, 21 Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy 111 (2013). Abstract below: Gender…
Jun 18
New Article: “Representing the Poor: Legal Advocacy and Welfare Reform During Reagan’s Gubernatorial Years”

New Article: “Representing the Poor: Legal Advocacy and Welfare Reform During Reagan’s Gubernatorial Years”

New Article: Mark N. Aaronson, Representing the Poor: Legal Advocacy and Welfare Reform During Reagan’s Gubernatorial Years, 64 Hastings Law Journal 933 (2013). Abstract below: The empirical focus of this book-length…

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PropertyProf Blog

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

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/property/

Jun 19
Death to Bike Share Program

Death to Bike Share Program

My quest to destroy Bikeshare programs is finally gaining some adherents. Although I appreciate the anger in this video from the Wall Street Journal, I wish Ms. Rabinowitz had stayed away from sweeping generalization about…
Jun 19
Prum & Kobayashi on the Geography of Green Building

Prum & Kobayashi on the Geography of Green Building

Darren Prum (Florida State) & Tetsuo Kobayashi (Florida State - Geography) have posted Green Building Geography Across the United States: Does Governmental Incentives or Economic Growth Stimulate Construction? on SSRN. Here's the…
Jun 18
An Update on the Private Property Rights Protection Act

An Update on the Private Property Rights Protection Act

Ilya Somin offers a brief update on the fate of the Private Property Rights Protection Act: Last week, the House Judiciary Committee passed the Private Property Rights Protection Act, which would prevent local governments that engage in…

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Doorey's Workplace Law Blog

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

http://www.yorku.ca/ddoorey/lawblog

Jun 11
SCC Heating Today: Can a Law Prohibit a Union from Recording and Publishing Names, Images of People Who Cross a Lawful Picket Line?

SCC Heating Today: Can a Law Prohibit a Union from Recording and Publishing Names, Images of People Who Cross a Lawful Picket Line?

The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal of an Alberta Court of Appeal decision involving the right of unions to record and publish the names and images of workers who cross a lawful picket line. The Court of Appeal ruled that privacy…
Jun 10
I’m Off to Barcelona!

I’m Off to Barcelona!

Like many other labour law professors from around the world, I am off to Barcelona for the Labour Law Research Network conference this week. Can’t wait to get there, and to listen to the world’s leading minds on labour and…
May 28
‘Insubordinate’ Articling Student Dismissed For Cause

‘Insubordinate’ Articling Student Dismissed For Cause

A lawyer in British Columbia has lost his wrongful dismissal case against a law firm that fired him for insubordination. The employee had articled for less than 3 months when he was dismissed for cause (although the employer gave the…

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JURIST - Forum

Op-eds on legal news by law professors and JURIST special guests.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/index.php

Apr 27
Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling

Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that Arizona's new immigration legislation - requiring law enforcement officers to stop everyone whom they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe is an…
Apr 22
The Iraqi High Court's Understated Rise to Legitimacy

The Iraqi High Court's Understated Rise to Legitimacy

JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that a look at recent decisions by Iraq's Federal Supreme Court illustrates the court's growing authority as an independent and legitimate voice…
Apr 21
Is Health Care Reform Constitutional?

Is Health Care Reform Constitutional?

JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Sanford of the University of Washington School of Law says that although challenges to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are valuable for inspiring dialogue within and…

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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/

Jun 19
Brian Goodman RIP

Brian Goodman RIP

Those who worked in the Immigration law field knew Brian Goodman, the Chairman of the Immigrantion and Refugee Board. Today, I found out that he passed away.
Jun 19
Tony Soprano dead?

Tony Soprano dead?

The Sopranos were a part of our culture for many years. TMZ is reporting that James Gandolfini died of a heart attack in Italy at age 51.
Jun 19
Mind your font

Mind your font

Does the font you use matter for communicating your ideas? In other words, are you more likely to believe the content of this subsentence over the content of this sub-sentence? Would it make a difference for your grade if you...

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Innocence Blog

The legal blog of theInnocence Project founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/news/Blog.php

Jun 19
Urgent Help Needed to Pass Wrongful Conviction Reform in New York

Urgent Help Needed to Pass Wrongful Conviction Reform in New York

Late Tuesday night a wrongful conviction bill was filed in the New York Legislature that would be a huge step towards protecting against wrongful convictions in the state. The bill would reduce false confessions by requiring that…
Jun 19
Italian High Court Condemns Amanda Knox Acquittal

Italian High Court Condemns Amanda Knox Acquittal

In October 2011, Amanda Knox' murder conviction of the 2007 murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy was overturned on appeal, and she was released from prison. In March, that decision was overturned by the Court of…
Jun 18
Illinois Woman Exonerated of Son's Death

Illinois Woman Exonerated of Son's Death

Photo Credit: Jennifer LinzerIn February, Nicole Harris was freed from prison when her murder conviction in the death of her four year old son was overturned. On Monday she was fully exonerated when State's Attorney Anita Alvarez announced…

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Underbelly: A Journal of Soft…

Underbelly: A Journal of Soft Information

By Professor Jack Ayer.

http://underbelly-buce.blogspot.com/

Jun 19
AP: General Studie

AP: General Studie

1. (Easy) Distinguish a) Arbiterb) Arbitratorc) Arbitrageurd) Arbeiter 2. (Medium) Distinguish a) Jacobinb) Jacobeanc) Jacobite 3. (Hard) Distinguish a) Rebellionb) Revolutionc) Coup d'etatd) …
Jun 19
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- How it Worked in the 50

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- How it Worked in the 50

All these old memories inspire an Army story from my friend Ignoto I was a company commander of a basic training company at Fort Jackson in ’54. We had one trainee – viperish guy in his upper 20’s who…
Jun 18
"Don't Shoot Me, I'm a Lawyer!": The Lyric

"Don't Shoot Me, I'm a Lawyer!": The Lyric

God bless the intertubes. Five years ago I put up a post recounting the story of a vengeance killing in the lobby of a hotel in Shelbyville, Kentucky, in 1937, preserved in legend only by the response of bystander who got his moment in…

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International Law Prof Blog

By Professor Mark E. Wojcik and Cindy Galway Buys.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/international_law/

Jun 19
Trafficking in Persons Report

Trafficking in Persons Report

The U.S. State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report today, which may be found here. (cgb)
Jun 19
Panama Requests Consulations with Columbia Over Textile Dispute at WTO

Panama Requests Consulations with Columbia Over Textile Dispute at WTO

Yesterday, Panama filed a request for consulations with Columbia at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body. Panama is complaining that certain Columbian customs measures relating to the importation of textiles, apparel and…
Jun 17
Demonstrations Continue in Turkey

Demonstrations Continue in Turkey

News sources are reporting that that Turkish authorities have widened their crackdown on antigovernment protestors, and that they have begun to target not only demonstrators but also medics who treat their injuries, business owners who…

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Conflict of Laws .net

Covers news and discussion on the conflict of laws in private international law cases. Editor is Martin George of the University of Birmingham. Published in association with the Journal of Private International Law.

http://conflictoflaws.net

Jun 19
Call for Papers: ASIL-ESIL-Rechtskulturen Workshop on International Legal Theory

Call for Papers: ASIL-ESIL-Rechtskulturen Workshop on International Legal Theory

Politics and Principle in International Legal Theory Call for Papers On November 14–15, 2013, the University of Michigan Law School will host the Second Annual ASIL–ESIL–Rechtskulturen Workshop on International Legal Theory.…
Jun 18
Kleinschmidt on the European Certificate of Succession

Kleinschmidt on the European Certificate of Succession

Jens Kleinschmidt (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and PIL, Hamburg) has Optionales Erbrecht: Das Europäische Nachlasszeugnis als Herausforderung an das Kollisionsrecht (The European Certificate of Succession: An Optional…
Jun 17
ELI – UNIDROIT Joint Project on Civil Procedure

ELI – UNIDROIT Joint Project on Civil Procedure

The European Law Institute has announced its intention to explore whether to launch a joint project with UNIDROIT on European civil procedure building on the ALI – UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure. On 23 May,…

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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Covers campaigns & elections, education, energy & environment, faith & family, foreign affairs, immigration and more. By Chapman University law professor Hugh Hewitt.

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/

Jun 11
Sex and the Military

Sex and the Military

The headline on the front page of the New York Times said it all: "Women in the Senate Confront the Military on Sex Assaults." In a triumphalist article showcasing the growing numbers of women on the Senate Armed...
Jun 10
Economics vs. 'Need'

Economics vs. 'Need'

One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a "need" for foreign workers to do "jobs that Americans won't do," especially in agriculture. One of my most vivid memories of the late...
Jun 4
Historic Rescuer

Historic Rescuer

It is not really news that Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book. He has done that before and repeatedly, on a variety of subjects. The subject of his latest book, "The Savior...

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TortsProf Blog

Covers accident and injury law. By Professors William G. Childs, Sheila B. Scheuerman and Christopher J. Robinette.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/

Jun 19
Can the City of Philadelphia Be Sued Over the Building Collapse?

Can the City of Philadelphia Be Sued Over the Building Collapse?

Philly lawyer Max Kennerly's analysis at Litigation and Trial. --CJR
Jun 17
Olson on Privacy and Solicitation

Olson on Privacy and Solicitation

Walter Olson has a post on today's USSC case Maracich v Spears: "The Privacy Case in Which Every Justice Switched Sides." (Compared with Maryland v. King). --CJR
Jun 13
Hylton on the Economics of Class Actions and Class Action Waiver

Hylton on the Economics of Class Actions and Class Action Waiver

Keith Hylton (Boston University) has posted to SSRN The Economics of Class Actions and Class Action Waivers. The abstract provides: Class action litigation has generated a series of recent Supreme Court decisions imposing greater federal…

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CYB3RCRIM3

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

http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/

Jun 19
Frost Wire, Child Pornography and Abandonment

Frost Wire, Child Pornography and Abandonment

After Airman Christopher B. Reed was “convicted at a general court-martial comprised of officer members” of “knowingly and wrongfully attempting to receive visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit…
Jun 17
The Subpoenas, the Motion to Quash and the Source Code

The Subpoenas, the Motion to Quash and the Source Code

--> Angel Ocasio is apparently a defendant in a federal criminal prosecution pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas: U.S. v. Ocasio, 2013 WL 2458617 (2013). This opinion concerns two subpoenas he had…
Jun 14
The Inventory Search, the Cell Phones and the Faraday Bag

The Inventory Search, the Cell Phones and the Faraday Bag

After the federal district court judge who had his case denied his motion to suppress, Mario Darnell Smith “entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S. Code §1344, three counts of…

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Environmental Law Prof Blog

The Environmental Law Prof Blog is currently seeking an editor.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmental_law/

Jun 12
RGGI Reform reflected in June Auction Price

RGGI Reform reflected in June Auction Price

As I discussed here a couple years ago, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was significantly overallocated. In its first three year compliance period (2009-11), the power plants regulated by the program emitted 377 million tons, a…
Jun 11
Which Poisoned Places are Near You?

Which Poisoned Places are Near You?

Elizabeth Lucas, Center for Public Integrity, and Robert Benincasa, NPR, have analyzed Environmental Protection Agency databases to come up with this highly informative, interactive map of sites that release hazardous pollutants into the air.…
Jun 10
N.Y. Times Article re California Beach Fire Ring

N.Y. Times Article re California Beach Fire Ring

Recently the New York Times, echoing some earlier local media coverage, ran an article about an ongoing regulatory initiative from the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to close open fire pits on public beaches in Southern…

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Michael Geist's Blog

Covers technology and DRM. By Michael Geist.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca

Jun 18
Debating Surveillance and the Law in Canada

Debating Surveillance and the Law in Canada

The recent stories about surveillance in the United States and Canada have generated increased debate in the media over the issue and I've been privileged to participate in several discussions. Last week, I sat down with Nick Taylor-Vaisey…
Jun 17
The Trade Agreement That Cried Wolf: The Canada - EU Trade Agreement Timeline

The Trade Agreement That Cried Wolf: The Canada - EU Trade Agreement Timeline

The Canada - EU Trade Agreement was in the news last week with multiple reports on the likelihood of talks concluding within the next few days. Some reports said a deal was possible, British Prime Minister David Cameron said a deal is…
Jun 13
Canada Moves Forward With WIPO Internet Treaty Ratification But It Likely Won't Be Final Until 2014

Canada Moves Forward With WIPO Internet Treaty Ratification But It Likely Won't Be Final Until 2014

Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore tabled the WIPO Internet Treaties (the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty) earlier this week in the House of Commons, starting the process of Canadian…

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The Yin Blog

Covers law, politics, pop culture, sports, and a touch of Iowa. By University of Iowa professor Tung Yin.

http://yin.typepad.com/the_yin_blog/

Jun 10
Star Trek Into Darkness . . . .

Star Trek Into Darkness . . . .

So, I got to see "Star Trek Into Darkness" over the weekend. Alas, not the IMAX 3D version, because my little boys didn't fall asleep in time for me to make that showing. Oh well, it was still visually spectacular...
Jun 3
Writers' Guild list of 101 best written TV serie

Writers' Guild list of 101 best written TV serie

Here's the list. The top 10 (#1 to #10) are "The Sopranos," "Seinfeld," "The Twilight Zone," "All in the Family," "M*A*S*H," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Mad Men," "Cheers," "The Wire," and "The West Wing." Obviously, my list would look...
May 29
The best response to that annoying "You speak English so well . . . where are you from?" line of question

The best response to that annoying "You speak English so well . . . where are you from?" line of question

Strangely enough, I got asked the "you speak English so well. . . where are you from?" line of questions far more often in California than in Iowa or here in Oregon. But anyway, this is pretty hilarious:

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Truth on the Market

Academic commentary on law, business and economics. Thom Lambert, Geoffrey Manne, Keith Sharfman, William K. Sjostrom, Jr., and Joshua D. Wright.

http://www.truthonthemarket.com

Jun 19
Bringing the Error Cost Framework to the Agency: Commissioner Wright’s Proposed Policy Statement on Section 5 Unfair Methods of Competition Enforcement

Bringing the Error Cost Framework to the Agency: Commissioner Wright’s Proposed Policy Statement on Section 5 Unfair Methods of Competition Enforcement

Co-authored with Berin Szoka FTC Commissioner Wright issued today his Policy Statement on enforcement of Section 5 of the FTC Act against Unfair Methods of Competition (UMC)—the one he promised in April. As we’ve been saying for…
Jun 14
Final Reply to Steve Salop

Final Reply to Steve Salop

Dan’s final post responding to Steve’s latest post. Other posts in the series: Dan, Steve, Dan, Steve, Dan, and Thom. It seems that it’s time to wind down and that a further…
Jun 14
Dan, Come Over to the Rule of Reason

Dan, Come Over to the Rule of Reason

Steve’s next, perhaps final, installment, responding to Dan’s latest post on the appropriate liability rule for loyalty discounts. Other posts in the series: Steve, Dan, Steve, Dan, and Thom. My…

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Feminist Law Professors

Covers feminism, sexism, reproductive rights and women's health. By Professors Ann Bartow and Bridget Crawford.

http://feministlawprofessors.com

Nov 25
In Memory of Gary Munneke, 1947-2012

In Memory of Gary Munneke, 1947-2012

In Memory of Gary Munneke, 1947-2012
Nov 25
Conference Announcement: 7th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop, Duke U. March 22-23, 2012

Conference Announcement: 7th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop, Duke U. March 22-23, 2012

Conference Announcement: 7th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop, Duke U. March 22-23, 2012
Nov 21
What Do Elmo and David Petraeus Have In Common? They’re Both Targets of a Sex Panic

What Do Elmo and David Petraeus Have In Common? They’re Both Targets of a Sex Panic

What Do Elmo and David Petraeus Have In Common? They’re Both Targets of a Sex Panic

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Dorf on Law

By Cornell Law School Professor Michael Dorf and his friends.

http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

Jun 19
Handicapping Arizona's Next Lawsuit

Handicapping Arizona's Next Lawsuit

By Mike Dorf My latest Verdict column discusses Monday's SCOTUS ruling in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. I make three main points: 1) The breakdown is refreshingly non-political; 2) The Court's rejection of a presumption…
Jun 18
Law, Politics, Right Answers, and Basketball

Law, Politics, Right Answers, and Basketball

By Mike Dorf Yesterday's ruling in Alleyne v. United States produced an interesting division on the Court. The majority opinion by Justice Thomas was joined by the Court's liberal wing, whereas the four other conservatives…
Jun 16
"All Deliberate Speed" for Same-Sex Marriage?

"All Deliberate Speed" for Same-Sex Marriage?

By Mike Dorf Although it's always tricky to predict outcomes of SCOTUS cases, the betting among the cognoscenti is that the Court will invalidate DOMA in the Windsor case and either uphold Prop 8 in the Perry case or find some way to duck…

Rank this Week: 393

Blog Law Blog

Covers the legal aspects of blogging. Topics include blog-related intellectual property law, Internet regulation, defamation, and censorship, as well as how blogs are used as evidence and authority in the courts. By Professor Eric E. Johnson.

http://bloglawblog.com/blog/

Jun 6
Blog Law Blog Has Never Cooperated with NSA’s Special Source Operation

Blog Law Blog Has Never Cooperated with NSA’s Special Source Operation

Tweet Well, it’s been a busy day for cybernews. The Washington Post has broken a huge story that the U.S. government, specifically the NSA and the FBI, are accessing e-mails, photos, videos, and other personal data via its…
Jun 4
UK Court Rules 7-Word Tweet Libeled Lord

UK Court Rules 7-Word Tweet Libeled Lord

TweetLord Robert Alistair McAlpine was libeled by a tweet from Sally Bercow, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, according to a May 24, 2013 decision of UK’s High Court of Justice. With a question of damages still pending,…
May 21
Moore Tornado

Moore Tornado

TweetThe terrible tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma was just a few miles north of where I live in Norman. It was visible from the hill where I live – although only indirectly. The funnel could not be seen through the rain, but the power…

Rank this Week: 394

Leonard Link

Features reporting and commentary on law, music, film and current events with a special emphasis on Sexuality & the Law. By New York Law School Professor Arthur S. Leonard.

http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/

Apr 27
This blog is no longer live - see my new blog address below

This blog is no longer live - see my new blog address below

NYLS has switched me to a new location. Beginning in 2013, I am blogging at artleonardobservations.com.
Dec 12
Federal Court Finds Real Estate Brokers Discriminated Against PWA

Federal Court Finds Real Estate Brokers Discriminated Against PWA

U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti ruled on December 3 that two New York City realtors, Manhattan Apartments, Inc., and Abba Realty Associates, violated a city law when dealing with a person living with AIDS who was seeking to rent an...
Dec 12
Another development on the DOMA Case - What Could It Mean?

Another development on the DOMA Case - What Could It Mean?

The Supreme Court has appointed Prof. Vicki Jackson of Harvard Law School to be "amicus curiae" in United States v. Windsor to brief and argue in support of the point of view that the Court does not have jurisdiction to...

Rank this Week: 410

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/

Jun 15
An Update on the Home Mortgage Bridge Loan Assistance Act

An Update on the Home Mortgage Bridge Loan Assistance Act

Hi Friends, Early last year, I noted with pleasure some progress underway in connection with a truly 'win-win' mortgage bridge loan statute I'd drafted with a friend and colleague at FRBNY. Today I am pleased to be able to report that the…
Jun 14
Open U.S. Intervention in Syrian War

Open U.S. Intervention in Syrian War

Most of us are waking up to the following news about the Syrian war: WASHINGTON — “The White House declared Thursday that Syria had crossed a ‘red line’ by using chemical weapons in that country’s civil war, and…
Jun 10
An Anchor, Not a Bubble: Student Loans and the New American Serfdom

An Anchor, Not a Bubble: Student Loans and the New American Serfdom

The economic world, some would have it, has been awash in a sea of frothy bubbles for a couple of decades now. And there is some truth to this claim. The NASDAQ stock surge of the late 1990s was a bubble. The underlying valuations never…

Rank this Week: 411

Dissenting Justice

Provides commentary on law, politics and justice. By Professor Darren Hutchinson.

http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/

Jun 6
Bad Week for Civil Liberties: Obama Administration Collecting Verizon Users' Call Data

Bad Week for Civil Liberties: Obama Administration Collecting Verizon Users' Call Data

Civil libertarian and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald published a bombshell this morning. Since April 2013, the US government has been collecting information from Verizon regarding all... To view the rest of this article, please…
May 31
Republicans Use Race-Based Affirmative Action to Attract Latino Candidate

Republicans Use Race-Based Affirmative Action to Attract Latino Candidate

Race-based affirmative action is a four-letter word for most conservatives. In fact, most conservatives would probably consider modifying the phrase "affirmative action" with the qualifier... To view the rest of this article, please…
May 29
KAITLYN HUNT: Case Raises Questions of Sexuality AND Sexual Orientation

KAITLYN HUNT: Case Raises Questions of Sexuality AND Sexual Orientation

The Kaitlyn Hunt case demonstrates, once again, the tendency of people to reduce complex problems into singular concerns. Hunt, an 18-year-old Florida high school student, was... To view the rest of this article, please…

Rank this Week: 436

Juries

Examines interesting and new developments regarding grand juries and trial juries. By Thaddeus Hoffmeister.

http://juries.blogspot.com/

Jun 17
Judge's Comments Prior to Polling the Jury Not Enough to Oveturn the Verdict (U.S. v. Cherry)

Judge's Comments Prior to Polling the Jury Not Enough to Oveturn the Verdict (U.S. v. Cherry)

In U.S. v. Cherry the defendant was convicted by a jury of possession with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm after a felony conviction in violation. When the…
Jun 13
Zimmerman Jurors to be Sequestered

Zimmerman Jurors to be Sequestered

The judge in the Zimmerman murder trial has shifted course and has now decided to sequester the jurors. The Florida judge presiding over George Zimmerman's murder trial reversed herself today and announced that the jurors will be…
Jun 10
Zimmerman Jury New

Zimmerman Jury New

CBS News: Jury selection begins in Trayvon Martin caseABC News: George Zimmerman Jury Selection: Jurors' Race May Be FocusNPR: Trayvon Martin Killing: 2 Sides Want Very Different Jurors Orlando Sentinel: Potential jurors line up at…

Rank this Week: 447

Jack Bog's Blog

Law and other thoughts by Lewis & Clark Law School Professor Jack Bogdanski.

http://bojack.org/

Apr 5
Have a great weekend

Have a great weekend
Apr 5
Pay a compliment, then apologize

Pay a compliment, then apologize

This country is cutting out its own soul in the name of correctness.
Apr 5
Drive in from the Couv, *and* deal with MAX?

Drive in from the Couv, *and* deal with MAX?

We're intrigued by the reference, in this article about the CRoCk, to "Portland’s whizzy light-rail system, which many Vancouverites drive across the river to use." How many do you think is "many"?

Rank this Week: 455

Sports Law Blog

A blog about the legal business of sports written by law professors: Rick Karcher, the Director of the Center for Law & Sports at the Florida Coastal School of Law; Michael McCann of Vermont Law School; Geoffrey Rapp of the University of Toledo College of Law; Howard Wasserman of Florida International University's College of Law, and Greg Skidmore of Kirkland & Ellis, LLP

http://sports-law.blogspot.com/

Nov 29
Ryan Rodenberg on Putter Ban

Ryan Rodenberg on Putter Ban

Sports Law Blog writer Ryan Rodenberg speaks to USA Today:"My sense is that players and manufacturers would have a lot of difficulty, as courts generally defer to unilaterally-imposed sports league rules," according to Ryan Rodenberg,…
Nov 29
Marvin Miller - The Most Significant Figure in Baseball in the Past 50 Years?

Marvin Miller - The Most Significant Figure in Baseball in the Past 50 Years?

Professor Ed Edm
Nov 28
Legal implications of the proposed ban on belly putter

Legal implications of the proposed ban on belly putter

I speak with David Dusek of Golf Magazine|Golf.com about the p

Rank this Week: 449

BankruptcyProf Blog

By Professor M. Jonathan Hayes.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/bankruptcyprof_blog/

Jan 14
About BankruptcyProf Blog

About BankruptcyProf Blog

If you are interested in serving as an editor of BankruptcyProf Blog for the Law Professor Blogs Network, please contact Paul Caron and Joe Hodnicki by email.
Jan 14
About BankruptcyProf Blog

About BankruptcyProf Blog

If you are interested in serving as an editor of BankruptcyProf Blog for the Law Professor Blogs Network, please contact Paul Caron and Joe Hodnicki by email.
Jan 3
NACBA Members of the Month

NACBA Members of the Month

I just went to pay my NACBA dues online and discovered that our own Peter Lively is the NACBA member of the month this month and our own Erik Clark was so designated three months ago. So we can say...

Rank this Week: 491

Best Practice for Legal Education

A blawg by Albany Law School Professor Mary Lynch designed to be a useful web-based source of information on current reforms in legal education, and to create a place where people interested in the future of legal education can freely exchange ideas, concerns, and opinions.

http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/

Jun 17
New CELT Assistant

New CELT Assistant

To our valued bloggers and readers, I would quite like to introduce myself. I am Aaron Bates, a rising 2L at Albany Law. Now that Stephanie Giancristofaro-Partyka has graduated and is currently studying for the bar exam (for…
Jun 10
California Bar – bold proposal to require skills training

California Bar – bold proposal to require skills training

I just learned this from Kate Kruse, President of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). Tomorrow, June 11, 2013, the California Task Force on Admissions Regulation Reform will be meeting in San Francisco to consider its Final…
Jun 10
CALI conference June 13-15 in Chicago

CALI conference June 13-15 in Chicago

If you’ll be in the Chicago area this week, consider attending the CALI conference. Info is available here. This year’s conference is about Driving Innovation and will feature talks by Bill Henderson, Barbara…

Rank this Week: 494

Civil Procedure & Federal…

Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog

By Professors Robin Effron, Cynthia L. Fountaine, and Adam Steinman

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/

Jun 19
Fees Award in Dismissal for Lack of Diversity Jurisdiction Reversed

Fees Award in Dismissal for Lack of Diversity Jurisdiction Reversed

Plaintiff, a Florida limited liability company, filed a diversity suit against Sheraton in the Southern District of New York. After three years and much discovery, the action was dismissed without prejudice for lack of subject matter…
Jun 19
SCOTUS Cert Grant on Appellate Jurisdiction

SCOTUS Cert Grant on Appellate Jurisdiction

This week the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Central Pension Fund (No. 12-992), which presents the question: In Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co., 486 U.S. 196 (1988), this Court held that a district…
Jun 15
Constitutional Litigation Structured as a Skills-and-Doctrine Course

Constitutional Litigation Structured as a Skills-and-Doctrine Course

Clinical Professor Sarah Ricks of Rutgers-Camden has published Current Issues in Constitutional Litigation. The book is part of the Context and Practice Casebook series and she uses it to teach a popular course of the same title. You can…

Rank this Week: 501

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/

Jun 14
Open U.S. Intervention in Syrian War

Open U.S. Intervention in Syrian War

Most of us are waking up to the following news about the Syrian war: WASHINGTON — “The White House declared Thursday that Syria had crossed a ‘red line’ by using chemical weapons in that country’s civil war, and…
Jun 2
Psychoanalysis & Buddhism: A Basic Reading Guide

Psychoanalysis & Buddhism: A Basic Reading Guide

This is a subject I hope to post something on in the near future, but in the interim I thought I’d make available some of the titles I’ll be reading in preparation. Aronson, Harvey B. Buddhist Practice on Western Ground:…
May 30
Rutgers-Newark Law School: People’s Electric

Rutgers-Newark Law School: People’s Electric

Professor George W. Conk has published his much anticipated (well, at least in some quarters) article on Rutgers-Newark Law School—People’s Electric—in the 1960s and ‘70s. Loyal and attentive readers might recall the…

Rank this Week: 500

White Collar Crime Prof Blog

By Stetson University Law Professor Ellen S. Podgor.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/whitecollarcrime_blog/

Jun 18
Non-arrested Person Asserting Right to Silence Must Assert Constitution

Non-arrested Person Asserting Right to Silence Must Assert Constitution

In Salinas v. Texas, the Supreme Court in a bizarre, unrealistic 5-4 (or more precisely 3/2-4) decision announced yesterday seemed to rule that the pre-arrest silence of a person not in custody may be introduced at trial against that…
Jun 17
A Great Moment In The History Of The FBI

A Great Moment In The History Of The FBI

This makes me so damn proud to be an American. What a righteous Department of Justice we have! Always going after the malefactors of great wealth. And God Bless the Fan Belt Inspectors too. No crime is too small for...
Jun 13
Circuit Report

Circuit Report

Today in U.S. v. Cherry, the Fourth Circuit held that it was plain error for a trial court to tell the jury about the defendant's inadmissible criminal history prior to polling the jurors. Alas, the error was harmless, given the...

Rank this Week: 514

The Legal Satyricon

Occasionally irreverent thoughts on the law. By Professor Marc J. Randazza.

http://randazza.wordpress.com

May 12
First Amendment vs. Disabilities Act

First Amendment vs. Disabilities Act

(From Charles Platt) Is this a real threat, or just posturing? The ADA has already been extended far beyond the areas in which is was first designed to apply. I can certainly imagine regulations compelling web sites to be “equally…
May 11
Jonas Williams: If you are a process server, you damn well better not lie on your service affidavit

Jonas Williams: If you are a process server, you damn well better not lie on your service affidavit

This is, in the grand scheme of things, not a very important case. However, to a lot of people, it might be. There was a process server operating in San Diego by the name of Jonas Williams. Instead of actually serving the people he was asked…
May 10
Rakofsky v. The Internet – LINK FIXED

Rakofsky v. The Internet – LINK FIXED

The long saga of Rakofsky v. The Internet is over (at least for now). The Order is here. Stay tuned, I’d imagine that there will be an appeal. The order is a bit soft, but the findings of fact are devastating. Filed under: misc

Rank this Week: 521

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/

Jun 13
UCLA's Outstanding Stats Resource

UCLA's Outstanding Stats Resource

Those looking for either introductory or mid-level instructional on-line resources should visit UCLA's idre site. The site's resources are both deep and wide. Particularly helpful is an array of on-line classes and workshops (some with…
Jun 10
When Independent Variables Reverse Sign

When Independent Variables Reverse Sign

Andrew Gelman (Columbia--Statistics) has an interesting post about a nettlesome little topic -- How to make sense of an independent variable that "flips" signs (that is, goes from negative to positive or vice-versa) across model…
Jun 3
Helpful SPSS Resource

Helpful SPSS Resource

Though most of our stats software package-related posts skew towards Stata, we remain mindful that folks' tastes vary across the most popular packages (e.g., Stata, SPSS, R, SAS). With this in mind, we recently stumbled across a helpful and…

Rank this Week: 524

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/

Jun 19
"The Pace of Modern Life" (xkcd comic)

"The Pace of Modern Life" (xkcd comic)

You don't have to read every word of this xkcd comic to be reminded that new technologies tend to be perceived as dangerous threats to familiar ways of life:
Jun 17
"The Impact of Neuroimages in the Sentencing Phase of Capital Trials"

"The Impact of Neuroimages in the Sentencing Phase of Capital Trials"

Recently posted to SSRN (and forthcoming in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies): "The Impact of Neuroimages in the Sentencing Phase of Capital Trials" Michael J. Saks , Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College…
Jun 17
"The Future of the Law of Armed Conflict: Ostriches, Butterflies, and Nanobots"

"The Future of the Law of Armed Conflict: Ostriches, Butterflies, and Nanobots"

On Wednesday, the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute is hosting an online lecture that may interest some readers. The lecture will be based on this paper by Eric Jensen. See here for details.

Rank this Week: 531

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/

Jun 19
"What is morality?"

"What is morality?"

A podcast with John Martin Fischer (UC Riverside).
Jun 19
Yet more doubts about the QS Ranking

Yet more doubts about the QS Ranking

A reader in the UK writes: THES DID drop QS for methodological reasons. The best explanation is here: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/03/15/baty But there may have been more to it? Clearly QS's business practices leave an awful lot…
Jun 18
The BBC on high school philosophy in France

The BBC on high school philosophy in France

Here.

Rank this Week: 578

ADR Prof Blog

By Professors Andrea Schneider, Nancy Welsh, Michael Moffitt and Sarah Rudolph Cole.

http://www.indisputably.org

Jun 16
Plea Bargaining Harmless Error

Plea Bargaining Harmless Error

Late last week the Supreme Court unanimously decided U.S. v. Davila, the full decision is here. This is not a ground-breaking case, and the holding is not a surprise. Yet it is the bigger question about how our criminal justice system…
Jun 13
Stipanowich on Delaware Chancery Arbitration

Stipanowich on Delaware Chancery Arbitration

In May, the Third Circuit heard oral arguments in Delaware Coalition for Open Government v. Stine, the case challenging the constitutionality of Delaware’s chancery arbitration scheme (see my previous commentary on the program here,…
Jun 11
AALS ADR Section Call for Paper

AALS ADR Section Call for Paper

CALL FOR PAPERS ADR and the Regulatory State Sponsored by the AALS Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution 2014 AALS Annual Meeting • January 2-5, 2014 • New York City Private dispute resolution and agency decision-making are now…

Rank this Week: 623

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