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Juris Diversitas

An international, interdisciplinary community for the study of legal and normative mixtures and movements.

http://jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com/

May 18
ARTICLE: Legal Transplant of Undue Influence:

ARTICLE: Legal Transplant of Undue Influence:

Mindy Chen-Wishart's "Legal Transplant of Undue Influence: Lost in Translation or a Working Misunderstanding?" has appeared on SSRN: Is legal transplant possible? The stark bipolarity of a ‘yes’ or ‘no’…
May 18
JOURNAL: European Property Law Journal

JOURNAL: European Property Law Journal

The following post appeared on the Maastricht European Private Law Blog yesterday: Special Issue of the European Property Law Journal on M-EPLI’s round table on the functional method in property law On Friday 17 June 2011, M-EPLI…
May 17
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Journal of Comparative Law in Africa

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Journal of Comparative Law in Africa

The Centre for Comparative Law in Africa, headed by our own Salvatore Mancuso, has announced both their latest newsletter and a new journal: The Journal of Comparative Law in Africa is a peer-reviewed annual academic legal journal…

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Legal Theory Blog

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

http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/

May 18
Legal Theory Bookworm

Legal Theory Bookworm

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications , edited by Nathaniel Persily, Gillian E. Metzger, & Trevor W. Morrison. Here is a description: The Supreme Court's decision in…
May 18
Download of the Week

Download of the Week

The Download of the Week is The Pigou-Dalton Principle and the Structure of Distributive Justice by Matthew D. Adler. Here is the abstract: The Pigou-Dalton (PD) principle recommends a non-leaky, non-rank-switching transfer of goods from…
May 17
Schmitz on Gender in Consumer Contract

Schmitz on Gender in Consumer Contract

Amy Schmitz (University of Colorado Law School) has posted Sex Matters: Considering Gender in Consumer Contracts (Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender, Vol. 19, pp. 437-509, 2013) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We hear about the so-called…

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Dorf on Law

By Cornell Law School Professor Michael Dorf and his friends.

http://www.dorfonlaw.org/

May 17
The Downside of Outsourcing Poltiical Oversight to Comedian

The Downside of Outsourcing Poltiical Oversight to Comedian

-- Posted by Neil H. Buchanan At apparently the same time that I was writing my Dorf on Law post yesterday, the editorial board of The New York Times was reaching essentially the same conclusions. Although they did not focus as much…
May 16
The IRS Mess Is Already Badly Misunderstood -- And the Distorted Narrative Will Only Get Worse

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

-- Posted by Neil H. Buchanan Last Friday, a news story broke that quickly came to be known as "the IRS scandal." Even the just-the-facts-ma'am TaxProf Blog has taken to posting daily collections of news stories under that title,…
May 15
When Search Warrants Accomplish Very Little

When Search Warrants Accomplish Very Little

By Sherry Colb In my Verdict column for this week, I examine the case of Missouri v. McNeely, in which the U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to recognize an exception to the warrant requirement for blood-testing people arrested for DWI.…

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religiousleftlaw

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

http://www.religiousleftlaw.com/

May 17
Should the IRS Pay Special Attention to those Groups Who Believe Taxes are too High?

Should the IRS Pay Special Attention to those Groups Who Believe Taxes are too High?

Is it unreasonable to suppose that groups who are ideologically committed to the proposition that taxes are too high are more likely than other groups to play fast and loose with the tax laws? If so, would it not make sense for the IRS to pay…
May 17
Several Updated Bibliographie

Several Updated Bibliographie

I’ve recently updated several of my bibliographies: (i) Ecological & Environmental Worldviews: A Basic Transdisciplinary Bibliography (ii) Punishment & Prison: A Bibliography (iii) Terrorism—Moral, Psychological, Political…
May 16
The Superimposition* of a False Scandal upon a Real One at the IRS

The Superimposition* of a False Scandal upon a Real One at the IRS

Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times provides us with much needed context and perspective on the so-called “IRS Scandal.” As Juan Cole notes, “The IRS scrutiny of Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt charitable…

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Defero Law

Community of UK legal bloggers.

http://www.deferolaw.com/profiles/blog/list?promoted=1

May 17
Our Child Abuse Solicitors further discuss Child Abuse Claims coverage

Our Child Abuse Solicitors further discuss Child Abuse Claims coverage

In a blog last week we discussed how The former Archbishop of York, Lord Hope, has been accused of failing to report serious allegations of child abuse by a senior clergyman, Robert Waddington. Read our blog entitled…
May 17
Unbundling: The New/Old Kid On The Block

Unbundling: The New/Old Kid On The Block

Unbundling as a service delivery and price modulation strategy is as old as the hills: for everyone but law firms. Quite a bit has been written about it recently (eg. Legal Futures and Law Society…
May 17
12 Things NOT to do on LinkedIn

12 Things NOT to do on LinkedIn

We all know that LinkedIn is an enormously powerful business tool and has now matured away from its “online CV” origins but are there any obvious bear-traps the hapless user can fall into? Yes there are and here’s 12 of the…

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Tillers on Evidence and Inference

The evidence blog of Professor Peter Tillers of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.

http://tillerstillers.blogspot.com/

May 17
Those Blinking (Messy) Declarations!

Those Blinking (Messy) Declarations!

Ah, real-world evidence problems are so messy! Consider the case in which the victim of a homicide - before his death - allegedly identified his killer by blinking his eyes three times. See Lisa Cornwell (AP reporter), Ohioan to appeal…
May 16
Proposed new standards for expert witnesses in family court cases in England and Wale

Proposed new standards for expert witnesses in family court cases in England and Wale

New standards for expert evidence in family courts announced, Consultation launched on exclusion of ‘so-called experts who are not up to scratch’ Fanily Law Week (May 16, 2013?): The Ministry of Justice has proposed…
May 15
Dan Kahan on Some Factors Affecting "Objectivity" (and the lack thereof)

Dan Kahan on Some Factors Affecting "Objectivity" (and the lack thereof)

Dan Kahan, Motivated reasoning & its cognates (blog post), Cultural Cognition Project (May 15, 2013): 1. Generally. Motivated reasoning refers to the unconscious tendency of individuals to process…

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Federalist Society Audio

Audio of recent events, speeches and conferences of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.

http://www.fed-soc.org/audio/MP3s/fsaudio.xml

May 16
Is the Patent System Working or Broken? A Discussion with Four Distinguished Federal Judges 5-14-13

Is the Patent System Working or Broken? A Discussion with Four Distinguished Federal Judges 5-14-13

Intellectual Property Practice Group and the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason University School of Law Today, people read almost daily reports about the "broken patent system" in newspaper articles, blogs and…
Apr 19
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate - 4-11-13

Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate - 4-11-13

Indianapolis Lawyers ChapterOn April 11, 2013, the Indianapolis Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society hosted an event featuring Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Mr. Lukianoff discussed…
Apr 19
Why the Supreme Court Should Strike Down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act 3-11-13

Why the Supreme Court Should Strike Down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act 3-11-13

Indianapolis Lawyers ChapterOn March 11, 2013, the Indianapolis Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society hosted an event featuring Mr. Roger Clegg, President and CEO of the Center for Equal Opportunity. The topic of the address was "Why the…

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The Right Coast

Thoughts from San Diego on law, politics, and culture. By Gail Heriot, Mike Rappaport, Tom Smith and Maimon Schwarzschild.

http://rightcoast.typepad.com/rightcoast/

May 16
Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views | Mail Online

Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views | Mail Online

Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study. Researchers discovered political motivations may have evolutionary…
May 16
Oxford grooming gang: We will regret ignoring Asian thugs who target white girls - Telegraph

Oxford grooming gang: We will regret ignoring Asian thugs who target white girls - Telegraph

Rochdale, Rotherham, Derby, Oxford. The towns change, but the pattern is always the same. Gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani Muslim heritage, lure white girls as young as 10 with gifts and displays of affection. Next, the girl is raped...
May 16
Althouse: Shouldn't there be a special prosecutor in the IRS case?

Althouse: Shouldn't there be a special prosecutor in the IRS case?

I still want a special prosecutor because I just don't trust them not to cover up. The minute I found out about it, then my main focus was making sure that we get the thing fixed. I don't think people...

Rank this Week: 109

BlawgConomics

Explores the intersection of law and economics. By Joshua Sturtevant.

http://blawgconomics.blogspot.com/

May 16
Is the Gun Rights Debate Not Interesting Enough for You?

Is the Gun Rights Debate Not Interesting Enough for You?

From the L.A. Times last week: "Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are…
May 16
Is Privacy Fighting Back?

Is Privacy Fighting Back?

I am very comfortable admitting that I am rarely in the vanguard when it comes to adopting technological innovations. I also tend to value privacy a bit more highly than the 50th percentile of Americans does. Based on those two…
May 15
Obamacare Woes for Democrats...

Obamacare Woes for Democrats...

Many passionate arguments in support of universal healthcare rest on the notion that it is absurd that citizens of the most powerful, most wealthy nation in the history of the world cannot afford regular check-ups. While I agree, in…

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Written Description

Reviews recent scholarship in patent law, intellectual property theory, and innovation. By Christopher Suarez, Sarah Tran, and Tan Mau Wu.

http://writtendescription.blogspot.com/

May 15
Are R&D tax credits the software patent solution?

Are R&D tax credits the software patent solution?

The Federal Circuit's fractured en banc decision in CLS Bank v. Alice probably pleased only those patent litigators who might benefit from the resulting uncertainty. The case could have provided clear guidance on the "abstract ideas"…
May 9
Crews: The Overreaching of Museums Art Image Copyright Policie

Crews: The Overreaching of Museums Art Image Copyright Policie

Do copyright and contract licensing policies adopted by art museums to restrict access to reproduced images of original artwork constitute overreaching? In his article, Museum Policies and Art Images: Conflicting Objectives and Copyright…
May 4
Hrdy: State Patent

Hrdy: State Patent

Yale ISP fellow Camilla Hrdy has just posted Dissenting State Patent Regimes (IP Theory). Here is the abstract:Inventors who believe in open innovation should start applying for state patents instead of U.S. patents. Patenting at the state…

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Voir Dire

Covers social science approaches to law and legal institutions, legal doctrine and legal policy implementation, and profession issues for academics. By Professors Jeff Yates and Andrew Whitford.

http://lawandcourts.wordpress.com

May 13
Can The “Six Million Dollar Man” Be Too Far Behind?

Can The “Six Million Dollar Man” Be Too Far Behind?

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on university presidents who have passed the million dollar mark in compensation. But wait, there’s more: Many presidents have a substantial portion of their overall pay tied up in deferred…
May 13
The ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ of Losing in Court

The ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ of Losing in Court

Ben Depoorter (UC Hastings Law) has recently posted “The Upside of Losing” on SSRN (forthcoming in Columbia Law Review) — arguing that not all losses in court are necessarily a loss, politically. Here’s the abstract:…
May 8
The 2012-13 law faculty salarie

The 2012-13 law faculty salarie

H/T and for more information on such matters see TaxProf Blog. For additional information on how SALT salary surveys are done go here. U.S. News Law School Assistant Professor Tenured Professor…

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Lawyers are boring.

Covers Taxonomy, Open Access, Free Legal Sources, Plain Language, BigData, IT to create new law and new lawyers.

http://lawyersareboring.tumblr.com

May 10
What is Legal Architecture

What is Legal Architecture

(and why I call myself a Legal Architect) Legal Architecture’s manifesto, first draft. My post on Legal Half Hour. Excerpts: “Law is information. Like information, it can be produced from many different sources and reach…
May 8
Why should a non-academic attend #ICAIL2013?

Why should a non-academic attend #ICAIL2013?

I’d like to attend ICAIL2013, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law that will take place June 10th-14th in Rome, but I’m not sure if there will be interesting stuff for a non academic tech-legal person…
May 3
Taxonomies make the law. Will folksonomies change it? My post on VoxPopuLII

Taxonomies make the law. Will folksonomies change it? My post on VoxPopuLII

This week, VoxpopuLII, the cutting edge legal information blog of Cornell University, published my piece “Taxonomies make the law. Will folksonomies change it?” http://tiny.cc/97fiww I have a gut feeling that folksonomies…

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Jurisdynamics

Describes the interplay between legal responses to exogenous change and the law's own endogenous capacity for adaptation. By Louis D. Brandeis Dean Jim Chen.

http://jurisdynamics.blogspot.com/

Apr 20
Portfolio Theory as a Pattern of Timeless Moment

Portfolio Theory as a Pattern of Timeless Moment

Jim Chen, Portfolio Theory as a Pattern of Timeless Moments, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2254244: Quantitative finance traces its roots to modern portfolio theory. Despite the deficiencies of modern portfolio theory, mean-variance…
Apr 17
Measuring Market Risk Under Basel II, 2.5, and III: VAR, Stressed VAR, and Expected Shortfall

Measuring Market Risk Under Basel II, 2.5, and III: VAR, Stressed VAR, and Expected Shortfall

Jim Chen, Measuring Market Risk Under Basel II, 2.5, and III: VaR, Stressed VaR, and Expected Shortfall, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2252463: Each of the most recent accords of the Basel Committee on Banking Regulation, known as…
Jan 7
CPRBlog: The Long Goodbye: On Seeing the Sundarban Island

CPRBlog: The Long Goodbye: On Seeing the Sundarban Island

CPRBlog: The Long Goodbye: On Seeing the Sundarban IslandsThe Ganges River begins at the foot of the Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayas and culminates at the Sundarbans Delta, a massive sprawl of swamps, lakes, and scores of islands. (Find an…

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The Albany Government Law Review…

The Albany Government Law Review Fireplace

The Albany Government Law Review runs this legal blog. It is the first student written and edited law blog in the country to engage in substantive law review-like legal analysis and academic speculation.

http://glrfireplace.albanygovernmentlawreview.org

Apr 5
Trickle-Down Empowerment: How The New York State Legislature Can Empower Attorneys Who Advocate For Victims of Domestic Violence by Incorporating Social Science Findings When Justifying New Legislation

Trickle-Down Empowerment: How The New York State Legislature Can Empower Attorneys Who Advocate For Victims of Domestic Violence by Incorporating Social Science Findings When Justifying New Legislation

By Heath Hardman, Albany Government Law Review I. Introduction The fields of social science and psychology continue to make advances in human understanding, and courts sometimes make use of this information.[1]…
Mar 8
Moratorium on Progress: How New York’s “Moratorium” Statute Has Helped Halt Public Sector Teacher Pension Reform

Moratorium on Progress: How New York’s “Moratorium” Statute Has Helped Halt Public Sector Teacher Pension Reform

By Ed Delauter, Albany Government Law Review We need a government that performs better and costs less . . . . [this] means enacting mandate relief. By next year, pension costs for schools and state and local governments will have…
Feb 20
The Supreme Court’s Refusal to Hear Case Involving the Illinois Eavesdropping Act

The Supreme Court’s Refusal to Hear Case Involving the Illinois Eavesdropping Act

By Courtney Elliott, Albany Government Law Review In recent years, courts have had to examine wiretap statutes in relation to recording law enforcement officers during the performance of their job duties.[1] Most Americans now carry at…

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Point of Law Forum

Provides information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system. By the Manhattan Institute and AEI Liability Project. Contributors include Professors Michael Krauss, David Bernstein, Lester Brickman, Michael DeBow, Richard Epstein, Daniel P. Kessler and Stephen Presser.

http://www.pointoflaw.com/

Nov 27
Chairman Schapiro's Troubled Tenure at the SEC

Chairman Schapiro's Troubled Tenure at the SEC

Chairman Schapiro announced yesterday that she will be stepping down as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in several weeks. Accompanying her announcement, was a nine-page list of her accomplishments during her nearly…
Nov 26
The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story

The success of trial lawyers in Philadelphia has come at the expense of the Pennsylvania economy. Our own Jim Copland explains in an op-ed and at great detail in Trial Lawyers Inc. - Philadelphia....
Nov 25
Senator-elect Warren's Quandary

Senator-elect Warren's Quandary

There has been a lot of speculation about whether Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren will get a seat on the Senate Banking Committee, a perfect forum to go after the financial industry. If Ms. Warren does get the coveted spot, she may...

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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…

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Nexus

Chapman's Journal of Law and Public Policy

http://www.lawschoolblog.org/blog/

Oct 16
Texas’s Rule Prohibiting Access to Preventative Services for Thousands of Women Ruled Constitutional

Texas’s Rule Prohibiting Access to Preventative Services for Thousands of Women Ruled Constitutional

This August, in Planned Parenthood Ass’n of Hidalgo County Texas, Inc. v.
Oct 16
Too Big to Flourish: An Over-Involved Government Jeopardizes America’s Future

Too Big to Flourish: An Over-Involved Government Jeopardizes America’s Future

The United States’ social insurance laws, including Medicare and Medicaid, over-expand the Founding Fathers’ intended role for government in America. America was founded so that its limited government would respect personal liberty. …
Oct 14
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Potential Impact on Education in California’s Public School

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Potential Impact on Education in California’s Public School

The prevention of teen births and sexually transmitted infections amongst California’s youth has been a long-standing social and economic issue. Despite a steady decline from 1991, when California’s teen birth rate reached a record high…

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The Legal Conservative

Discusses law and cases from a conservative perspective. By the Woodring Law Firm.

http://www.woodringlawfirm.com/legal_conservative_blog

May 2
Individual Mandate: 2 Lawyers Debate Constitutionality: Introduction

Individual Mandate: 2 Lawyers Debate Constitutionality: Introduction

Individual Mandate: 2 Lawyers Debate Constitutionality: Introduction. First of three articles I have the privilege to write for Medscape to cover the healthcare lawsuit argued topics. Note, you may have to do a free sign up to access the…
Sep 6
Nice Background on Florida Solicitor General Scott Makar

Nice Background on Florida Solicitor General Scott Makar

A Certain Appeal || Gulf Coast Business Review | Tampa Bay, Bradenton, Sarasota, Fort Myers, Naples. Interesting read on the background of a friend, Solicitor General Scott Makar. I believe at this point he is the longest serving Florida…
Aug 12
Breaking: Eleventh Circuit Rules Obamacare’s Individual Mandate is Unconstitutional – Forbe

Breaking: Eleventh Circuit Rules Obamacare’s Individual Mandate is Unconstitutional – Forbe

Breaking: Eleventh Circuit Rules Obamacare’s Individual Mandate is Unconstitutional – Forbes. This is a 300 pg. opinion, so more comments to follow. 11th Circuit decision on Constitutionality of Healthcare Nice Quotes: In sum, the…

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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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Respondeat

Covers New York state law specifically, and law and philosophy generally.

http://respondeat.wordpress.com

Jan 2
The Zapato Is on the Other Foot: Argentine Court to Hear Case on Spanish Human Rights Violation

The Zapato Is on the Other Foot: Argentine Court to Hear Case on Spanish Human Rights Violation

In an interesting turn of events, via IPS News, Spanish human rights violations during the Franco-era are being heard in an Argentine court. According to the article, “One of the plaintiffs is 91-year-old Darío Rivas, who is seeking…
Jan 1
Improving the Outlook for Orlando’s Tourist Industry in 2012

Improving the Outlook for Orlando’s Tourist Industry in 2012

With a new year comes new challenges to Central Florida and in particular the Orlando and Orange County area.
Aug 20
Some Thoughts on the Lack of Consistency and Predictability in Federal Forum Non Conveniens Dismissal

Some Thoughts on the Lack of Consistency and Predictability in Federal Forum Non Conveniens Dismissal

The doctrine of forum non conveniens is applied with great inconsistency by federal district courts. The forum non conveniens analysis is, to quote Justice Scalia, “multifarious,” but what weight should be given to those factors is left…

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Cardozo Blog

The official blog of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York City.

http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/Blog.aspx

Dec 20
Of Inference Networks and -- gasp! -- Onto-Epistemology

Of Inference Networks and -- gasp! -- Onto-Epistemology

The following book has finally been published: William Twining, Philip Dawid & Dimitra Vasilaki, eds., Evidence, Inference and Enquiry (Oxford & British Academy, 2011, available in the U.S. in February 2012). The book
Dec 20
Of Inference Networks and -- gasp! -- Onto-Epistemology

Of Inference Networks and -- gasp! -- Onto-Epistemology

The following book has finally been published: William Twining, Philip Dawid & Dimitra Vasilaki, eds., Evidence, Inference and Enquiry (Oxford & British Academy, 2011, available in the U.S. in February 2012). The book examines evidence,…
Dec 23
A Small Manifesto

A Small Manifesto

A (Minor) Manifesto (about Legal Education) 1. Law school courses generally focus on legal rules. But facts are just as important both for successful law practice and for an understanding of the actual workings o

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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.

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Essentially Contested America

Covers the constitutional, political, and cultural controversies which define the character of America. By Widener University School of Law Professor Robert Justin Lipkin.

http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org

Dec 8
Professor Robert Hayman’s Tribute to Bobby Lipkin

Professor Robert Hayman’s Tribute to Bobby Lipkin

[Author: Robert Hayman] [see photos from event] This will be a short talk about one of Bobby’s “big ideas,” about pragmatism, which might be best described as revolutionary pragmatism. Bobby’s interest in constitutional revolutions is…
Dec 3
Professor Erin Daly’s Presentation in Honor of Robert J. Lipkin

Professor Erin Daly’s Presentation in Honor of Robert J. Lipkin

Author: Erin Daly [see photos from event] I want to thank everyone for coming here today. I think that when we first heard that Bob had died, we were completely bereft. We were completely stunned. Bob had been around here for so long that…
Dec 1
Professor Jim May’s Remarks; A Celebration of Scholarship with the Presentation of The Widener Law Review Special Edition in honor of Robert J. Lipkin

Professor Jim May’s Remarks; A Celebration of Scholarship with the Presentation of The Widener Law Review Special Edition in honor of Robert J. Lipkin

Author: Professor Jim May [see photos from event] Bobby’s constitutional theories were cogent, unconventional and unsettling. Bobby was unafraid of toppling conventional wisdom and subverting dominant paradigms about constitutional…

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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: 1567

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: 1883

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.

Rank this Week: 2098

Federalist Society - University of…

Federalist Society - University of Washington Chapter

Covers limited government, freedom, federalism and judicial restraint.

http://uwfedsoc.blogspot.com/

Dec 25
Somebody bless us, or something

Somebody bless us, or something

This is an encouraging sign. The freedom to worship whatever God we find most pleasing is perhaps the most fundamental freedom; it signifies freedom of thought. The fact that Iraqis are now free to worship Jesus if the mood strikes them…
Dec 15
Fifth Amendment Victory

Fifth Amendment Victory

Saw an interesting post over on The Volokh Conspiracy about a first dip into a murky 5th Amendment issue - can the gov't compel a suspect to enter a computer password? A man was detained at the Vermont-Canada border on suspicion of…
Nov 22
Holiday (Second Amendment) Reading

Holiday (Second Amendment) Reading

The Supreme Court's grant of cert. in DC v. Heller reminded me of an entertaining article on the Supreme Court's last Second Amendment ruling in 1939. I recommend Brian Frye, The Peculiar Story of United States vs. Miller, NYU Journal of Law…

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