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…

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…

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…

On October 11 & 12, the University of Illinois College of Law will host the 12th annual Midwestern Law & Economics Association conference. The event consists of law professors and economists presenting papers with varying degrees of…

So Felix Salmon has taken a justifiable swipe at some oddish Bloomberg articles on Citibank's spinoff of its internal hedge fund, as required by the Volcker Rule. But in doing so, it seems as though he may have hit his...

No, not that Hungarian financial crisis. Now that the country seems to have more or less righted itself, its citizens are still struggling with their own debts. Reuters reports that the Managing Director of the National Bank of Hungary has...

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

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...