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John Palfrey's Blog

Covers intellectual property, politics and teaching. By Harvard Law Professor and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society John Palfrey.

http://jpalfrey.andover.edu

May 9
Khan Academy meets Phillips Academy

Khan Academy meets Phillips Academy

Sal Khan and his traveling team of six teachers and developers from Khan Academy are on campus at Phillips Academy this morning. We are delighted to welcome them to a special faculty meeting this morning. We are also pleased to…
Apr 18
The Launch of the Digital Public Library of America

The Launch of the Digital Public Library of America

My favorite tweet in a long time, courtesy of @electriclit: It’s going to be a good day. The Digital Public Library of America opens at noon: j.mp/15hTf0w // @dpla Today is launch day for the DPLA. Hooray! So many people…
Mar 26
“Super late to the party: Dan Cohen & the DPLA”

“Super late to the party: Dan Cohen & the DPLA”

Super late to the party: Dan Cohen & the DPLA. An enthusiastic take by Sarah Barbrow on Dan Cohen’s appointment as the founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America, which I share.

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Journal of Law, Economics & Policy

From George Mason University School of Law.

http://jlep.net/home/

Mar 1
JLEP Announces 2012-2013 Board of Editor

JLEP Announces 2012-2013 Board of Editor

The outgoing board is proud to announce the board of editors for next year.
Feb 6
Announcing Conference — The Digital Inventor: How Entrepreneurs Compete on Platform

Announcing Conference — The Digital Inventor: How Entrepreneurs Compete on Platform

Schedule of Events 8:30 AMBreakfast Reception 8:45 AMWelcoming Remarks Daniel Polsby, Dean, George Mason University School of Law Thomas Hazlett, Professor of Law & Economics, George Mason University 9:00…
Oct 11
Issue 7.4 Now Available Online

Issue 7.4 Now Available Online

Issue 7.4 of The Journal of Law, Economics & Policy is now available on our website. You can access a PDF file of the entire issue by clicking on the “Issues” tab above, or you can follow the link “PDF” below. It is also available…

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Ideas

By Professor David Friedman.

http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/

May 22
What's Wrong With Mushy?

What's Wrong With Mushy?

An issue that I keep coming back to in my exchanges with various of the Bleeding Heart Libertarians is what I see as their unwillingness to offer a clear description of their position. It comes up in details of what they write, such as Jason…
May 21
Jason Brennan Defends, I Reply

Jason Brennan Defends, I Reply

Jason Brennan has now responded to my criticism. He did so on his blog rather than in comments on mine, so I will rerespond here instead of there.His first response to my claim that "social justice" has no definite meaning is to concede that…
May 20
Ted Nelson Thinks He Has Identified the Creator of Bitcoin

Ted Nelson Thinks He Has Identified the Creator of Bitcoin

I don't know if he is right, but it is a plausible and entertaining account.

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Features discussions on clinical education, justice and legal reform by Northwestern University School of Law Professor Steven Drizin, Clinical Professor Karen L. Daniel, and legal journalist Rob Warden

http://blog.law.northwestern.edu/bluhm/

Nov 11
ENOUGH 2!

ENOUGH 2!

ADDENDUM: On November 16, Cook County Circuit Court Chief Judge Paul Biebel granted the motion to vacate of all four defendants in the Englewood case: Vincent Thames, Terrill Swift, Michael Saunders, and Harold Richardson. The Charles…
Jun 25
Ms. Right (Ann Coulter) is So Wrong About the Central Park Jogger Case

Ms. Right (Ann Coulter) is So Wrong About the Central Park Jogger Case

In her new book, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America, Ann Coulter riffs on the Central Park Jogger case and uses the case as a prime example of how liberals, especially those "Innocence Project defense style lawyers" undermine…
Feb 7
Advance Preview: Definitive Book on Central Park Jogger Case Destined to be a Classic

Advance Preview: Definitive Book on Central Park Jogger Case Destined to be a Classic

Sarah Burns

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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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Cases and Materials on Business…

Cases and Materials on Business Entities

Covers new developments in business entity law. By Seattle University School of Law Professor Eric A. Chiappinelli.

http://businessentitiesonline.typepad.com/new_developments/

Mar 25
Delaware Supreme Court on good faith and the duty of loyalty in a Revlon setting

Delaware Supreme Court on good faith and the duty of loyalty in a Revlon setting

The Delaware Supreme Court, sitting en banc, has held that the Court of Chancery erred when it ruled that liability for breach of the duty of loyalty in a bad faith context could be imposed without a showing of intent.
Sep 15
South Dakota Supreme Court on LLC dissolution

South Dakota Supreme Court on LLC dissolution

The Supreme Court of South Dakota has held that an LLC may be dissolved when two of four members refuse to renegotiate the terms of an agreement between the LLC and those two members. In Kirksey v. Grohmann, four sisters were left equal…
Sep 2
Delaware Court of Chancery on good faith and the duty of loyalty in a Revlon setting again

Delaware Court of Chancery on good faith and the duty of loyalty in a Revlon setting again

The Delaware Court of Chancery has erroneously held that it was correct in its earlier decision to permit a case to survive summary judgment under Stone v. Ritter without facts indicating that the defendants intended to violate a known duty.…

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Zeugma

Covers legal education, technology, rhetoric and legal theory. By Lancaster University's Sefton Bloxham, University of Warwick's Patricia McKellar, University of Strathclyde's Karen Barton and Glasgow Graduate School of Law's Paul Maharg.

http://zeugma.typepad.com/zeugma/

Jul 18
Moving on...

Moving on...

I'm moving blog host, from Typepad to Wordpress. I hadn't expected to go, but Typepad's recent newsletters on their company policies are making me edgy and, having been stung, like many academics, by Ning's recent policy changes (Dropbox…
May 17
Ross Priory, 2011

Ross Priory, 2011

Spent two days at the invitation of Alan Paterson (Strathclyde) and Richard Susskind discussing legal practice and legal education at Ross Priory, Strathclyde's retreat house on Loch Lomond, which has one of the best views anywhere in…
Apr 29
New book series: Emerging Legal Learning - call for title

New book series: Emerging Legal Learning - call for title

Over the past six months or so, amongst much else I've been involved in putting together a couple of book series.

Rank this Week: 1312

ByteLawyer Briefings

Covers current law and technology developments affecting business and society. By Nanyang Business School Professor Harry SK Tan.

http://bytelawyer.blogspot.com/

Aug 24
Odex fails action against PacNet for disclosure of identity of downloader

Odex fails action against PacNet for disclosure of identity of downloader

In what appears to be a straightforward case of licensors of Animeware - ODEX - for illegal downloading of pirated copies by thousands, Odex filed suits against all the local commercial ISPs to obtain the identities of those who downloaded…
Aug 19
How would the Singapore regulatory framework treat Eros LLC?

How would the Singapore regulatory framework treat Eros LLC?

Day 1 of State of Play Conference. Interestingly the latest case reported of the synthetic worlds is the case of EROS LLC suing Volkov Catteneo” who broke the sex program’s copy protection and sold unauthorized copies. So naturally…
Aug 19
State of Play Conference BEGINS

State of Play Conference BEGINS

Finally the long awaited conference has begun. Last night at the opening dinner for participants, meeting all the thought leaders, academics and businesses involved in the building and use of synthetic environments is exciting. There was a…

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BioLaw: Law and the Life Sciences

By Jim Chen, Kristi L. Bowman, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Holly D. Doremus, Peter H. Huang, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, Andrew Long, Barbara A. Noah, Jordan Paradise, J.B. Ruhl, Andrew W. Torrance, and Katherine Van Tassel.

http://biolaw.blogspot.com/

Nov 21
Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle

Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle

Recently received in the Jurisdynamics Network's mailbox: Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age (2011) (available at http://amzn.to/RaceBottle):
Oct 31
Synthesizing Law for Synthetic Biology

Synthesizing Law for Synthetic Biology

Earlier this year, I was commissioned by the National Academies to write a report on synthetic biology, standards setting, and intellectual property, which I co-authored with Linda Kahl, and presented at the National Academies in Washington,…
Oct 21
Bioprospect theory

Bioprospect theory

Jim Chen, Bioprospect Theory, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2164848 or http://bit.ly/BioprospectTheory. To be presented at the University of Akron School of Law's sixth annual Intellectual Property Scholars Forum.

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Constitutionalism & Democracy

A law blog by Albany Law School Professor Stephen Gottlieb and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship James Gathii

http://constitutionalismanddemocracy.wordpress.com/

May 21
The Environmental Action Agenda

The Environmental Action Agenda

A few months ago, both Steve Leibo and I brought attention to an MIT study that suggested that a carbon tax could be a win-win-win solution. It would meet some Republican and some Democratic objectives, by allowing Congress to keep income…
May 14
What’s up with gun right

What’s up with gun right

What’s the NRA’s big attachment to assault weapons? Why do we have to suffer the weapons of mass murder? One NRA member from Texas told an NPR reporter, “As far as I’m concerned, if you can afford to buy a tank, you…
May 7
Trying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Trying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

It seems clear that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev exploded bombs at the Boston Marathon. Although some wanted him tried as an enemy combatant outside of the requirements of the Constitution, the Obama Administration has brought charges in the federal…

Rank this Week: 1453

The Shout

Covers wiretaps, privacy, copyright, and free speech. By Jennifer Granick.

http://www.granick.com/blog

Oct 30
Granick Slate Card: November 6, 2012 Election

Granick Slate Card: November 6, 2012 Election

GRANICK SLATE CARD NATIONAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 2012 Friends, Romans, Republicans:
Jul 24
Catching Up

Catching Up

Unfortunately, I haven’t been keeping this site up to date as I’ve been blogging on the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society site. To that end, here are my most recent posts: The Unintended Consequences of CISPA New…
Apr 23
BCPO Raffle

BCPO Raffle

Contact me if you want tickets for this worthy cause! BCPO Raffle 2012 Flyer

Rank this Week: 1475

The TransAtlantic Assembly

Blog of American and European Practitioners and Academics on European and American Constitutional Law (with an eye to the European Constitution), International Law, European Law, and Law and Philosophy.

http://transatlanticassembly.blogspot.com/

Sep 4
Italy's tragic future

Italy's tragic future

Silvio Berlusconi is a modern dictator. He controls all the most important functions of the state and is THE key player in the private sphere. Modern dictators are characterized by an ability to disguise their authoritarianism through subtle…
Sep 2
No to Barroso

No to Barroso

Does anyone out there know who Barroso is? More importantly does anybody know what was his best achievement during his four years as President of the European Commission, the highest institution within the EU? Very few will be able to answer…
Jul 25
Obama's Transatlantic Speech

Obama's Transatlantic Speech

Berlin was like a honeymoon between America and Europe. But Obama's honey words, were a little too sweet:

Rank this Week: 1477

The Sports Law Professor

Dedicated to the complete integration of sports and law. By Willamette University College of Law Professor Jeffrey Standen.

http://thesportslawprofessor.blogspot.com/

Aug 28
The Problem with the Red Sox-Dodgers Trade

The Problem with the Red Sox-Dodgers Trade

So my favorite team swapped my favorite player (and the team's best) to the Dodgers, along with two other solid players, for a handful of minor league players of various promise. Obviously, in terms of baseball talent, this is a very lopsided…
Nov 13
NBA at the Crossroad

NBA at the Crossroad

The NBA and its players appear unable to reach an agreement on the terms and conditions of labor. A number of proposals have been rejected. From available reports, the primary difference appears to center around the division of income. I…
Jul 25
NFL Players Sell the Rookies Short

NFL Players Sell the Rookies Short

Although details remain undisclosed, it appears the new NFL/NFLPA collective bargaining agreement will contain a substantial limitation on the terms of rookie salaries, especially at the top of the draft. This development is troublesome to…

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Law Career Blog

Covers law schools, careers in law and alternative career options for lawyers. By Professor Gregory W. Bowman.

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

Sep 12
To Everything there is a Season

To Everything there is a Season

Obviously it has been a while since I have posted on this blog. Why is that? I suppose it is because I have accomplished much of what I wanted to with Law Career Blog as a solo blog. I felt I had important things to say on teaching and…
Aug 25
The Most Important Day of Cla

The Most Important Day of Cla

Last week was my first week of classes for the 2008-2009 academic year, and I was all ready to write a post called "The Most Important Day of Class." The whole premise was that the first day of class is the most important day of class for…
Aug 10
The Benefits of Senior, Junior, and Adjunct Law Faculty

The Benefits of Senior, Junior, and Adjunct Law Faculty

There was an interesting post on the Law Librarian Blog this week concerning the benefits of senior, junior, and adjunct faculty in the classroom. The post can be linked to here. This is a subject that interests me greatly, and readers will…

Rank this Week: 1534

Mootness: The Moot Court Blog

Provides competition results & news, resources & commentary about interscholastic appellate advocacy. By Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Kent Streseman.

http://mootness.typepad.com/mootness/

Mar 31
In which Mootness acknowledges its obsolescence....

In which Mootness acknowledges its obsolescence....

You have, I'm sure, heard the chill winds blowing through the dusty streets of the Mootness blog. Noted the tumbleweeds rolling by. Heard the cockroaches scurry over the floorboards of a place where good people once laughed and loved. Seen…
Feb 13
Michigan Peeps: Help Me

Michigan Peeps: Help Me

Does anyone have results for the 2007 State of Michigan Moot Court Competition? I've got some info regarding previous competitions, but not the most recent one.
Jan 31
Live from the National Moot Court Competition

Live from the National Moot Court Competition

A quick & dirty post on a just-completed tournament: Winner & Best Oral Advocate: Chicago-Kent College of LawRunner-up & 2nd-Best Oral Advocate: University of ColoradoBest Brief: University of California, Davis The other semifinalist teams…

Rank this Week: 1600

Nahmod Law

Covers 42 USC Section 1983 and constitutional law. By Professor Sheldon Nahmod.

http://nahmodlaw.com

May 20
DeShaney in the Circuits (III): The Fifth Circuit En Banc Holds the Line

DeShaney in the Circuits (III): The Fifth Circuit En Banc Holds the Line

Affirmative Duty Issues After DeShaney v. Winnebago County, 489 U.S. 189 (1989) I have blogged twice previously about DeShaney affirmative due process duty issues in the circuits. The first time was on August 22, 2011, and the second time was…
Apr 30
Class-of-One Equal Protection Claims: Uncertainty in the Seventh Circuit

Class-of-One Equal Protection Claims: Uncertainty in the Seventh Circuit

Class-of-One Equal Protection Claims It may surprise some of you to know that one can have a successful equal protection claim without being a member of a racial, gender, ethnic or other group. In Village of Willowbrook v. Olech, 528 U.S. 562…
Apr 17
Certiorari Granted in Madigan v. Levin: An Important Section 1983/ADEA Preclusion Case

Certiorari Granted in Madigan v. Levin: An Important Section 1983/ADEA Preclusion Case

Certiorari Granted in Madigan v. Levin The Supreme Court granted certiorari on March 18, 2013, in Levin v. Madigan, 692 F.3d 607 (7th Cir.), cert. granted sub nom. Madigan v. Levin, 132 S. Ct. — (2013), an important section 1983/ADEA…

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The Confrontation Blog

Covers the Confrontation Clause and developments related to Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004). By University of Michigan Law Professor Richard D. Friedman.

http://confrontationright.blogspot.com/

Oct 15
Three decisions from the California Supreme Court on forensic report

Three decisions from the California Supreme Court on forensic report

The California Supreme Court issued three decisions today on the Confrontation Clause and forensic reports. Two of them divided the court and show how bad things can get in light of the confusion sown by the US Supreme Court's decision in…
Jun 20
Source of the "targeted individual" test?

Source of the "targeted individual" test?

I hope to be offering more commentary on Williams within a few days. Meanwhile, perhaps I can offer a solution to one mystery. Justice Kagan quite sensibly says that where Justice Alito's "targeted individual" test comes from "is…
Jun 19
Thoughts on Williams, Part I: Reasons to Think the Impact May be Limited

Thoughts on Williams, Part I: Reasons to Think the Impact May be Limited

Here is a first installment of preliminary thoughts on Williams. Obviously, I think the result is unfortunate; I think Williams should have won. But the damage to the Confrontation Clause may be much less than I might have guessed it would…

Rank this Week: 1666

Brian Leiter's Legal Philosophy…

Brian Leiter's Legal Philosophy Blog

Covers jurisprudence, legal realism, and legal theory. By Professor Brian R. Leiter and Prof. Daniel Filler

http://leiterlegalphilosophy.typepad.com/leiter/

Apr 14
Green on Legal Realism and Naturalized Jurisprudence

Green on Legal Realism and Naturalized Jurisprudence

Via Solum, I learn that my (part-time) colleague Les Green's (long-gestating) paper on "Law and the Causes of Judicial Decision" is finally on SSRN (it will appear in final form in Green's forthcoming collection of papers from OUP). I have…
Mar 28
Jurisprudence II: Objectivity

Jurisprudence II: Objectivity

My tentative Spring Quarter Syllabus (Download Jurisprudence II Syllabus 2009), for those who might be interested.
Mar 12
Which journals publish the highest quality work in philosophy of law?

Which journals publish the highest quality work in philosophy of law?

A new poll, which might provide some useful information for younger scholars figuring out where to submit their work.

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Law and Magic Blog

Discusses the intersection of law and magic, religion, pseudoscience, paranormal, and science.

http://lpcprof.typepad.com/law_and_magic_blog/

May 23
Ghosthunting: Not For The Unprepared

Ghosthunting: Not For The Unprepared

Now, this story about a Down Under Ghosthunter is really sort of sad. The Hobart Mercury reports that last year, a Tasmanian man decided to set up a camera in his kitchen to try to catch evidence of "paranormal activity"...
May 22
Physician Convicted, Sentenced For Fraud In Cancer Cure Case

Physician Convicted, Sentenced For Fraud In Cancer Cure Case

A federal judge has sentenced a California physician to 14 years in prison for deceiving patients by persuading them to purchase an herbal supplement that she told them could cure cancer and other diseases. A number of her patients died...
May 8
It's Not a Real Chinese Meal Without a Fortune Cookie

It's Not a Real Chinese Meal Without a Fortune Cookie

Where do fortune cookie fortunes come from? It's not magic. Like the fortune cookie itself, those fortunes are the result of good old American ingenuity. Somebody makes them up. And surprise! According to Mr. Palmer, the writers apparently…

Rank this Week: 1696

Law & Development Blog

By Professors Tom Ginsburg and Veronica Taylor.

http://lawdevelopment.blogspot.com/

Dec 7
Privatization

Privatization

J. David Brown, US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Heriot-Watt University - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation (CERT), John S. Earle, George Mason University - School of Public…
Nov 10
Do Victims of War Need International Law? Human Rights Education Programs in Sudan

Do Victims of War Need International Law? Human Rights Education Programs in Sudan

Mark Fathi Massoud (McGill Law) has a new article, Do Victims of War Need International Law? Human Rights Education Programs in Sudan. It examines contemporary programs in law and development in authoritarian and war-torn contexts. The…
Nov 4
A Research Agenda for Development Economic

A Research Agenda for Development Economic

Esther Duflo , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics has an interesting paper on A Research Agenda for Development Economics.

Rank this Week: 1718

Gustavo Pamplona

Direito Publico: constitucional, administrativo, ambiental e tributario.

http://gpamplona.blogspot.com/

Mar 30
Confira Gustavo Pamplona

Confira Gustavo Pamplona

facebook Confira Gustavo Pamplona Você compartilhou o seu email com Gustavo Pamplona que sigeriu a você curtir sua página no Facebook Cadastre-se no Facebook se você deseja curtir Gustavo Pamplona e conectar-se a…
Mar 24
TJDFT. Doação. Igreja. Decadência. Inocorrência. Negócio jurídico nulo. Impossibilidade de convalidação

TJDFT. Doação. Igreja. Decadência. Inocorrência. Negócio jurídico nulo. Impossibilidade de convalidação

Não há que se falar em decadência, se o pedido deduzido na inicial é de declaração de nulidade de negócio jurídico, por violação ao art. 548 do Código Civil, que…
Mar 24
STJ. Rateio de prejuízo em cooperativa deve ser proporcional à fruição dos serviço

STJ. Rateio de prejuízo em cooperativa deve ser proporcional à fruição dos serviço

A Terceira Turma do Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) entendeu ser ilegal o critério de distribuição igualitária dos prejuízos da Unimed Brasília Cooperativa de Trabalho Médico,…

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Verdict

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

http://verdict.justia.com/

May 22
Why Are Republicans Determined to Waste Money on Government? The Upside-Down Logic of Taking Responsibilities (and Funding) Away From the IRS

Why Are Republicans Determined to Waste Money on Government? The Upside-Down Logic of Taking Responsibilities (and Funding) Away From the IRS

Justia columnist, George Washington law professor, and economist Neil Buchanan comments on the recent IRS scandal, which he contends is better labeled a “non-scandal” limited to low-level mistakes and mid-level crisis…
May 21
A Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling Underscores the Limits of Habeas Corpus as a Remedy for State Prisoner

A Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling Underscores the Limits of Habeas Corpus as a Remedy for State Prisoner

Justia columnist and Cornell law professor Michael Dorf comments on Monday’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling in Metrish v. Lancaster, as well as on the more general significance of unanimous rulings. Lancaster, as Dorf explains,…
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…

Rank this Week: 1749

Life Sentences Blog

A blawg by Marquette University Law School Professor Michael O'Hear to track new legal developments and research relating to long prison sentences.

http://www.lifesentencesblog.com/

Nov 15
Incarceration and Collateral Damage: Prof. Traci Burch to Speak at Marquette on Nov. 29

Incarceration and Collateral Damage: Prof. Traci Burch to Speak at Marquette on Nov. 29

We live in an era of unprecedented mass incarceration. Since the mid-1970?s, America’s imprisonment rate has quintupled, reaching heights otherwise unknown in the western world. We embarked on this incarceration binge with little…
Oct 22
Seventh Circuit Affirms Life Sentence Notwithstanding Supreme Court’s Recent Eighth Amendment Decision

Seventh Circuit Affirms Life Sentence Notwithstanding Supreme Court’s Recent Eighth Amendment Decision

From the time of its decision in Harmelin v. Michigan (1991), affirming a mandatory sentence of life without parole for a drug trafficking offense, through its decision in Ewing v. California (2003), affirming a de facto life sentence for…
Oct 8
What’s Next for the Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel?

What’s Next for the Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel?

I have a new article on SSRN that considers recent developments in the Supreme Court relating to effective assistance of counsel. Here’s the abstract:

Rank this Week: 1941

Workplace Dignity: Where Dignity…

Workplace Dignity: Where Dignity and Respect in the Workplace Reigns Supreme

Covers employment law, human resources best practices, and how to use alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms to help ensure a happy and productive workforce. By Kendall Isaac.

http://www.workplacedignity.com/employment-law-and-dispute-resolution-blog.html

May 13
Workplace Bullying Video Posted on YouTube by QualiaSoup 2/28/13

Workplace Bullying Video Posted on YouTube by QualiaSoup 2/28/13

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May 12
A Salute to Working Mother

A Salute to Working Mother

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May 11
TN Joins the Majority of States with New Workers' Compensation Reform

TN Joins the Majority of States with New Workers' Compensation Reform

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The Antitrust Hotch Potch

Offers critical comments on EC competition law and policy. By Professor Damien Geradin and Nicholas Petit.

http://professorgeradin.blogs.com/professor_geradins_weblog/

Apr 16
The General Court partially annulled the Commission's Decision on CISAC

The General Court partially annulled the Commission's Decision on CISAC

Last week, the General Court (“GC”) adopted its judgment in the CISAC case whereby it partially annulled the 2008 Commission’s decision. CISAC is an international organisation which represents collecting societies.…
Apr 10
Bank Mergers in Economies Facing Sovereign Debt Crises - NBG/ Eurobank

Bank Mergers in Economies Facing Sovereign Debt Crises - NBG/ Eurobank

Over the past year, merger activity in the Greek banking sector picked up significantly. The Greek Competition Authority approved concentrations such as Piraeus/ ATE, Alpha/ Emporiki, and Piraeus/ Geniki. Most recently, a merger between the…
Apr 3
Antitrust Compliance Programmes & Optimal Antitrust Enforcement: A Reply to Wouter Wil

Antitrust Compliance Programmes & Optimal Antitrust Enforcement: A Reply to Wouter Wil

Here is the abstract of my new paper: In the inaugural issue of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Mr. Wils published an article discussing the relationship between compliance programmes and competition law enforcement in the EU. This…

Rank this Week: 2024

Agoraphilia

Law and economics, and intellectual property by Tom W. Bell and Glen Whitman

http://agoraphilia.blogspot.com/

Mar 9
Marginal Utility Theory of Daylight Saving Time

Marginal Utility Theory of Daylight Saving Time

I just posted this on Facebook, and I thought I might as well post it here as well. This is the marginal utility theory of Daylight Saving Time. If you could, you would allocate your daylight according to marginal utility -- starting with…
Mar 8
Economics of the Undead: Call for Abstract

Economics of the Undead: Call for Abstract

Anyone wondering what kind of projects have been keeping me from blogging lately? Well, here's one...Call for AbstractsEconomics of the Undead: Blood, Brains & BenjaminsGlen Whitman & James P. Dow, EditorsThe editors seek abstracts…
Dec 12
CFTC Targets Prediction Markets; Hits First Amendment

CFTC Targets Prediction Markets; Hits First Amendment

Would you pay good money for accurate predictions about important events, such as election results or military campaigns? Not if the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has its way. It recently took enforcement action against…

Rank this Week: 2094

Buffalo Wings & Toasted…

Buffalo Wings & Toasted Ravioli

Law, social media, and social networking technologies, with excursions into politics, travel, food and drink. By Professor James G. Milles.

http://jimmilles.com

Apr 28
SUNY Buffalo Law Offering 2-Year J.D. for Foreign Lawyer

SUNY Buffalo Law Offering 2-Year J.D. for Foreign Lawyer

From the New York Law Journal: Lawyers who hold law degrees from institutions outside the United States will be able to earn a J.D. in two years through an accelerated degree program at University at Buffalo Law School set to ……
Apr 18
On law schools and institutional crisi

On law schools and institutional crisi

Bill Henderson has previously said that he expects big layoffs at law schools this fall – presumably thinking that there will be a huge overall revenue shortfall, but that schools won’t know, until opening day, just how bad their…
Feb 26
Logic

Logic

What Dan Filler at The Faculty Lounge wrote: The newest voume summary from LSAC is out and it indicates that, as of February 15, 2013, applications have increased to the point that law schools are now down a mere 18.9% … Continue…

Rank this Week: 2116

Persuasive Authorities

Covers law, politics, and foreign policy by legal teachers, scholars, fellows and researchers.

http://persuasiveauthorities.blogspot.com/

Mar 30
Farewell

Farewell

Persuasive Authorities is officially signing off. On behalf of our entire roster of contributors, I thank our readers for visiting us and interacting with us in this group blog. It has been fun, fruitful, and productive.We look forward to…
Feb 18
New Law School Ranking

New Law School Ranking

(from Malcolm Gladwell.) The full list is available here (subscription required), but you can get a quick glimpse of them here.
Feb 14
Women’s quota in major enterprise

Women’s quota in major enterprise

These days, in Germany there is a lively discussion about women’s quota in major enterprises. The facts are clear: in most German businesses, especially in leadership positions, women are still underrepresented. Only 13 percent of the…

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Unincorporated Business Entities…

Unincorporated Business Entities Law

Edited by Professors Gary S. Rosin, Bradley T. Borden, Thomas E. Geu, Elizabeth Miller, Douglas K. Moll and Donald Scotten.

http://uberlaw.net

May 10
Delaware, Charging Orders and SMLLC

Delaware, Charging Orders and SMLLC

House Bill No. 126, introduced in the Delaware legislature on May 9, 2013, would make two amendments to the Delaware LLC Act that would affect the rights of creditors. First, Section 6 of the Bill would Section 18-703(d) of the Delaware LLC…
May 10
Delaware Default Fiduciary Fix

Delaware Default Fiduciary Fix

In its per curiam opinion in Gatz Properties, LLC v. Auriga Capital Corporation, 59 A.3d 1223 (Del. 2012)(en banc) (slip opinion), the Delaware Supreme Court called on the Delaware legislature to settle the questions of whether,…
Mar 12
Manesh on Dictum & Default Dutie

Manesh on Dictum & Default Dutie

Mohsen Manesh (Oreg.) has a working paper with the alliterative title Damning Dictum: The Default Duty Debate in Delaware” (February 21, 2013)(SSRN). The paper reacts to the Delaware Supreme Court’s opinion in…

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Equal Vote

Information and insight on the laws governing federal, state and local elections. By Michael E. Moritz College of Law Professor Dan Tokaji.

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/blogs/tokaji/

Dec 18
The Wrong Approach to Election Reform

The Wrong Approach to Election Reform

The Ohio legislature yesterday approved a bill (SB 380) that would eliminate the window for early registration and absentee voting, among other things.
Nov 7
Reforming Registration

Reforming Registration

On Monday, I identified four problem areas to watch out for on Election Day: 1) lines at the polls, 2) voting equipment, 3) voter registration lists, and 4) provisional and absentee ballots. While machine breakdowns and polling place lines…
Nov 4
What We Don't Know

What We Don't Know

We now know that Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America. In the enormity of this moment in American history, the gritty details of election administration, upon which my Moritz colleagues and I spend so much…

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from milan to mumbai

Post and riposte from a resolutely cranky but creative law professor, emphasizing international and comparative tax law... by Michael Livingston

http://mikelivingston.blogspot.com/

Nov 8
welcome back and thoughts on the election

welcome back and thoughts on the election

I’m reviving my blog to make a couple of comments about the election and because I’ll be traveling again soon, always a good time for posting. Some of these are comments I’ve already posted on Facebook et al. Here we…
Dec 29
The Travails of the "Ultra-Orthodox"

The Travails of the "Ultra-Orthodox"

Stories have been floating around the international media about various outrages attributed to Haredim or "ultra-orthodox" Jews in Jerusalem and other cities. These include forced segregation of men and women on buses, efforts to keep…
Nov 28
Israel: my last few day

Israel: my last few day

My class is over and I'm using the last three days to see parts of Israel that I might otherwise miss. Last night I headed to Jerusalem for a workshop at the Van Leer Institute on Arab and Jewish demography, not normally one of my core…

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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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Grotian Moment: The International…

Grotian Moment: The International War Crimes Trial Blog

Case Western University Law School's blawg on international war crimes trials.

http://law.case.edu/saddamtrial/

Jul 29
Human Rights Watch Report Assessing the Taylor Trial

Human Rights Watch Report Assessing the Taylor Trial

Human Rights Watch recently released a report entitled "Even a 'Big Man' Must Face Justice": Lessons from the Trial of Charles Taylor. A copy of that report is available here: HRW Report on Taylor Trial. Below is the announcement from Human…
Jul 28
The Law's Long Arm and the Mighty Pen: Justice for Ratko Mladic

The Law's Long Arm and the Mighty Pen: Justice for Ratko Mladic

A former war crimes prosecution attorney and PILPG advisory board member reflects on the arrest of Ratko Mladic, alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica genocide. It is not often when one man is able to unite officials on both sides of the…
Feb 15
Piracy Prosecutions in the Seychelle

Piracy Prosecutions in the Seychelle

By Cameron MacLeod Since early 2010, the Seychelles has become the hub for prosecution of Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. The Seychelles recently enacted a statute giving its courts universal jurisdiction to prosecute pirates brought to…

Rank this Week: 2550

Weatherall's Law: IP in the land…

Weatherall's Law: IP in the land of Oz (and more)

Covers intellectual property in Australia. By Melbourne University's Kimberlee Weatherall.

http://weatherall.blogspot.com/

Jan 10
Postscript

Postscript

I know, it kind of ruins the symmetry to post again, after 'The Last Post'.However, just after posting that last post, I got an email from Bill Patry, to let me know of the publication of his new treatise. It can't pass without comment. …
Jan 9
The Last Post (and five things you didn't know about me)

The Last Post (and five things you didn't know about me)

I have been tagged by the 'Five Things You Don't Know About Me' Meme that is doing the rounds (thanks Abi). (Like Starkoff, I'm not tagging anyone else). So here goes:I have two brothers. They are both doctors. I have two sisters-in-law. …
Dec 18
Reactions to the Cooper decision

Reactions to the Cooper decision

Various reactions to the 'linking is authorisation' Cooper decision handed down yesterday by the Full Federal Court:I commented yesterday (summary? 'troubling'. 'Have we, or have we not just had a very extended debate about copyright law in…

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Clinical Law Prof Blog

By Amy Graham and Naima Manley.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/clinic_prof/

Aug 16
About Clinical Law Prof Blog

About Clinical Law Prof Blog

The Law Professor Blogs Network has ceased publication of this blog.
May 30
May 2009 CLEA Newsletter

May 2009 CLEA Newsletter

The May 2009 Clinical Legal Education Association Newsletter is available online. -jl
May 30
Introduction to U.S. Tax Court Video Now Available Online

Introduction to U.S. Tax Court Video Now Available Online

A training video produced by the United States Tax Court is now available for viewing online. The video is an excellent resource for pro se petitioners, as well as tax clinic students. Copies of the DVD may also be ordered...

Rank this Week: 2561

Displacement of Concepts

Thoughts on technology, innovation, law, legal education, economics, cyberspace, and intellectual property. By Professor Robert Heverly.

http://robert.heverly.org/blog/

Mar 31
Depressing

Depressing

I must admit that at times I display a distinct naivety in my approach to life. I like people. I trust people. Sometimes my own experiences have provided me with reason to behave this way. For example, I worked for many years at the…
Mar 31
Strange Reasoning

Strange Reasoning

Via the Patry Copyright Blog, it seems there was a bit of an interesting discussion over the advertisement run in the UK for Transport for London and created by folks at or associated with WCRS.
Mar 11
Sometimes Location Matter

Sometimes Location Matter

William Patry writes about a recent U.S. Federal District Court decision that is “a masterpiece of analysis and witty writing” (Ricky Gervais Inspires Copyright Opinion). Patry quotes from the decision (citations omitted):

Rank this Week: 2588

Goldman's Observations

Covers legal education and the legal industry. By Professor Eric Goldman.

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/personal/

Mar 18
How the Shutdown of Google Reader Threatens the Internet (Forbes Cross-Post)

How the Shutdown of Google Reader Threatens the Internet (Forbes Cross-Post)

In the early 2000s, the Internet was eclipsing other mass media like print publications and broadcasting. Panicked by this development,...
Jan 23
Wandering Buddha Restaurant, New Orlean

Wandering Buddha Restaurant, New Orlean

I dread going to New Orleans because it's not a city for vegetarians. But, on my most recent trip there...
Jan 22
Plant-Based Pizza, Willow Glen (San Jose)

Plant-Based Pizza, Willow Glen (San Jose)

Before Plant-Based Pizza opened in the Willow Glen district of San Jose in November, the Bay Area's leading vegan pizza...

Rank this Week: 2591

Georgetown Law Faculty Blog

Blog for various Georgetown Law faculty to post about legal topics of interest.

http://gulcfac.typepad.com/georgetown_university_law/

Jun 13
Cost-Benefit Jumps the Shark

Cost-Benefit Jumps the Shark

The Department of Justice's Economic Analysis of Prison Rape by Lisa Heinzerling Despite initial signs suggesting a different path, the Obama Administration has promoted the role of cost-benefit analysis in regulatory policy as fiercely as…
Jun 6
Antibiotics, Animals, and Agency Discretion

Antibiotics, Animals, and Agency Discretion

by Lisa Heinzerling When an agency defends over three decades of inaction on an important problem by saying that acting would take too long, one hopes a judge reviewing the agency's inaction will see through the pretense. This is exactly what…
Sep 2
Ozone Madne

Ozone Madne

(The following post corrects two small factual errors in the original post.) by Lisa Heinzerling Today, President Obama announced that he had asked EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the final National Ambient Air Quality Standard…

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Haifa Faculty of Law Blog

From the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law.

http://haifalawfaculty.blogspot.com/

Jul 19
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Feb 15
Murderous anti gay law in Uganda

Murderous anti gay law in Uganda

Sorry for the Anglit - working from a goy computer.This abomination says so much about law in general. we usually think about law as being in some way inherently different from other forms of control, due to its deliberative nature more…

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The Becker-Posner Blog

A law and economics blog by University of Chicago Law School Professors Gary Becker and Senior Lecturer Judge Richard Posner

http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/beckerposner/

Nov 25
MOOCs—Implications for Higher Education—Posner

MOOCs—Implications for Higher Education—Posner

“MOOCs,” an acronym for “massive open online courses,” denotes an important, possibly a revolutionary, development ineducation. These courses are online, free of charge, open to anyone in the world who has a laptop and an Internet…
Nov 25
Online Courses and the Future of Higher Education-Becker

Online Courses and the Future of Higher Education-Becker

Online courses began around 1990 with the growth of more widespread access to the Internet. They spread rapidly in the United States during the last half of the 1990’s buoyed by the dot-com boom, and fell sharply after that bubble burst.…
Nov 18
Why People Vote and What That Implies-Becker

Why People Vote and What That Implies-Becker

The number of voters in the recent US presidential election was down by about 5 million voters from 2008, yet still about 120 million Americans voted this month. President Obama had one of the smallest winning percentages in the popular vote…

Rank this Week: 2681

Failed Evidence

Covers arrests, prosecutions, and news relating to: criminal court cases, scientific evidence, eyewitness evidence, exonerated convicts, innocence, injustice, and the law enforcement system's general resistance to science. By David A. Harris.

http://failedevidence.wordpress.com/

May 22
New York’s Stop and Frisk Case: With Trial Over, What Should We Expect?

New York’s Stop and Frisk Case: With Trial Over, What Should We Expect?

On Monday, May 20, Judge Shira Scheindlin of New York heard final arguments in a trial about stops and frisks by the New York Police Department (NYPD). The Center for Constitutional Rights and a number of individuals has sued…
May 22
New York’s Stop and Frisk Case: With Trial Over, What Should We Expect?

New York’s Stop and Frisk Case: With Trial Over, What Should We Expect?

On Monday, May 20, Judge Shira Scheindlin of New York heard final arguments in a trial about stops and frisks by the New York Police Department (NYPD). The Center for Constitutional Rights and a number of individuals has sued…
May 14
Picking a New Police Chief: Design the Process a New Mayor Should Follow

Picking a New Police Chief: Design the Process a New Mayor Should Follow

How would you set up the the process to pick a new chief of police for a mid-sized city? Amidst a corruption scandal, Pittsburgh’s police chief resigned this Spring. (He has announced he’ll plead guilty to the charges…

Rank this Week: 2692

Law & Econ Prof Blog

By Professors Jagdeep Bhandari and Thomas S. Ulen.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_econ/

Aug 16
About Law & Econ Prof Blog

About Law & Econ Prof Blog

The Law Professor Blogs Network has ceased publication of this blog.
Jun 17
Markets and Moral

Markets and Moral

I very highly recommend Al Roth's summary of Michael Sandel's BBC Reith Lectures on "Markets and Morality" -- available here. TSU
Jun 10
Caperton v. Massey

Caperton v. Massey

Earlier this week the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Clapton v. Massey. The decision was 5 - 4, with Justice Kennedy writing the majority opinion, and Chief Justice Roberts, a dissent. Here is the front matter from...

Rank this Week: 2727

Career & Professional…

Career & Professional Development Blog

By Susan Gainen and Assistant Dean Mina Jones Jefferson.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/lawcareer/

Jun 7
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Mar 26
Alternative Careers - The Rule

Alternative Careers - The Rule

Much of this information was taken from Susan Gainen's presentation at the NALP Newcomer's Conference in Denver (Feb. 2009). Thanks, Susan! ALTERNATIVE CAREERS RULES: 1. Know what the employer does and what its problems are. As you approach…

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Dean's Blog

By Dean Donald Lewis of the Hamline University School of Law.

http://law.hamline.edu/blogs.aspx?blogid=102

Nov 5
Dean's Blog - Learning Outcomes and Assessment

Dean's Blog - Learning Outcomes and Assessment

Available in both video and text format for your convenience
Oct 14
Dean's Blog - Business Law Institue

Dean's Blog - Business Law Institue

Available in both video and text format for your convenience
Oct 4
Dean's Blog - Faculty Scholarship & Research

Dean's Blog - Faculty Scholarship & Research

Available in both video and text format for your convenience

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The Cardozo Jurist

Cardozo's law student newspaper

http://www.cardozojurist.com/

Nov 26
Students Learn from, Meet with Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor

Students Learn from, Meet with Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor

There are not many occasions on which Cardozo students voluntarily wait in line outside of their school to hear a guest speaker. However, on October 22nd, such was the case when Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Cardozo for the…
Oct 12
The Rabbi of Rhomboid

The Rabbi of Rhomboid

Shalom Jews and Gents! It’s your girlfriend’s favorite convert, aka Chocolate Challah, aka my Solomon is black and my Tzitzit is blue, aka Samson’s Son, aka Bruchalic, aka 5 slaps and a thunderclap coming at you for the first time.
Oct 12
Remembering the ‘90s: Bayside! The UnMusical!

Remembering the ‘90s: Bayside! The UnMusical!

Bayside! The UnMusical! is a musical parody of Saved by the Bell performed at the intimate Kraine Theater on 4th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. This is a performance where you will laugh for sixty minutes, look back, and have no idea…

Rank this Week: 2767

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