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BlawgConomics
BlawgConomics
Explores the intersection of law and economics. By Joshua Sturtevant.
http://blawgconomics.blogspot.com/
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Jun 18
Super Bugs, Super Drugs Redux
Super Bugs, Super Drugs ReduxA scary story about drug-resistent gonhorrea made the rounds recently. Meanwhile, The Guardian recently reported that "Antibiotic-resistant bacteria with the potential to cause untreatable infections pose "a catastrophic threat" to… -
Jun 17
Buchanan on Fact Checking
Buchanan on Fact CheckingI have railed against fact checkers on several occasions on this page (typically during election season when most fodder for such railing presents itself) but I have never (as far as I am aware) had the displeasure of being the 'facts'… -
Jun 14
Stay Out of Grandma's Candy Drawer Kids (The Law of Unintended Consequences Edition)
Stay Out of Grandma's Candy Drawer Kids (The Law of Unintended Consequences Edition)While popular in some quarters, it appears that Colorado's loose pot laws have led to some unintended consequences, namely, the ingestion of THC-laced candies by unsuspecting children. Freakonomics has a brief note on the problem -…
Rank this Week: 627
Chinese Law Prof Blog
Chinese Law Prof Blog
By George Washington University Law Professor Donald C. Clarke.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/china_law_prof_blog/
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Jun 18
The Chen Guangheng/NYU affair
The Chen Guangheng/NYU affairThe circumstances of Chen Guangcheng's leaving New York University have been in the news lately and the subject of dispute. Essentially, Chen says he is being pushed out due to pressure on NYU from the Chinese government. (Here's his… -
Jun 1
Funding available for China-EU research project
Funding available for China-EU research projectI have received the following announcement: New Research Applications Due Before July 1st, 2013 The China EU School of Law (CESL) is happy to announce that a new round of research applications has been opened. Scholars, researchers and… -
May 22
Judge Dee: coming to a PC near you
Judge Dee: coming to a PC near youMost people who study Chinese law learn ...
Rank this Week: 329
Concurring Opinions
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
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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 sportLast 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 ThoughtBoth parties in the Senate appear to be gearing up for a showdown in January over the rules governing filibusters.
Rank this Week: 296
Conglomerate
Conglomerate
Covers business, law, economics and society. By Professors Gordon Smith, Christine Hurt, Lisa Fairfax, David Zarin, Usha Rodrigues, and Erik Gerding
http://www.theconglomerate.org/
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Jun 18
The NYT, Zach Braff, and the Ethics of Kickstarter-ing
The NYT, Zach Braff, and the Ethics of Kickstarter-ingSo, criticizing The Ethicist column in the New York Times is about as new as complaining about the weather. When... -
Jun 17
It's The Takings Clause Again That's The Vehicle For A Financial Crisis Suit
It's The Takings Clause Again That's The Vehicle For A Financial Crisis SuitSteven Lubben reviews the lawsuit by Fannie and Freddie shareholders against the government for bailing out the firm in a... -
Jun 14
Family Film Blogging: 42
Family Film Blogging: 42O.K., so if you're looking for a review of 42 that lists all of the historical inaccuracies, this ain't it....
Rank this Week: 125
JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We…
JOTWELL - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
Edited by University of Miami School of Law Professor Michael Froomkin, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)–JOTWELL–invites law professors to join us in filling a telling gap in legal scholarship by creating a space where legal academics will go to identify, celebrate, and discuss the best new legal scholarship.
http://jotwell.com/
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Jun 18
State Boundaries and Constitutional Limit
State Boundaries and Constitutional LimitClyde S. Spillenger, Risk Regulation, Extraterritoriality, and the Constitutionalization of Choice of Law, 1865-1940, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 12-01 (February 15, 2012), available at SSRN.William BaudeMost… -
Jun 17
Public Agencies Going Private
Public Agencies Going PrivateJon D. Michaels, Privatization’s Progeny, 101 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2013), available at SSRN.Anne O'ConnellAdministrative law loves binaries. There are executive agencies and independent regulatory commissions. There… -
Jun 14
How Should Judges Spend Their Time?
How Should Judges Spend Their Time?Marin K. Levy, Judicial Attention as a Scarce Resource: A Preliminary Defense of How Judges Allocate Time Across Cases in the Federal Courts of Appeals, 81 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 401 (2013), available at SSRN.Nancy LeongThe federal…
Rank this Week: 118
The Volokh Conspiracy
The Volokh Conspiracy
By Eugene Volokh, Dale Carpenter, David Kopel, David Bernstein, David Post, Erik Jaffe, Ilya Somin, Jim Lindgren, Jonathan Adler, Kevan Choset, Orin Kerr, Randy Barnett, Russell Korobkin, Sasha Volokh, Stuart Benjamin, Todd Zywicki & Tyler Cowen.
http://volokh.com
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Nov 28
If You Believe Blog Comment Threads, It’s Almost Disqualifying
If You Believe Blog Comment Threads, It’s Almost Disqualifying(Orin Kerr) Our Constitution is not alone the working plan of a great Federation of States under representative government. There is embedded in it also the vital principles of the American system of liberty. That system is based upon certain… -
Nov 28
New Book on Secession
New Book on Secession(Eugene Kontorovich) The Right to Self-determination Under International Law “Selfistans,” Secession, and the Rule of the Great Powers, by Milena Sterio of Cleveland-Marshall (another piracy scholar, to boot). Looks interesting. Probably… -
Nov 27
Stewart Baker Touched a Nerve
Stewart Baker Touched a Nerve(Jonathan H. Adler) Stewart Baker’s “Sex Secrets of the Security Line” (aka “50 Shades of TSA”) seems to have touched a nerve out there.
Rank this Week: 26