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/**/ Amos N. Guiora (University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law) has posted Pre-Empting Terror Bombings - A Comparative Approach to Anticipatory Self-Defense (Toledo Law Review, Vol. 41, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The extreme urgency in discussing terror bombings and anticipatory self-defense cannot be overstated. Terror bombings were responsible for the single bloodiest month for U.S. and British troops in Afghanistan (July, 2009), for the death of nine people in Indonesia... Posted on November 23, 2009 at 04:29 am by Lawrence Solum

/**/ Joshua D. H. Karton (Queen's University - Faculty of Law) has posted Party Autonomy and Choice of Law: Is International Arbitration Leading the Way or Marching to the Beat of its Own Drummer? (University of New Brunswick Law Journal, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: National courts have restricted party autonomy in choice of law in a variety of ways. In international arbitration, on the other hand, the march of party autonomy has been unhindered. National courts have abetted this... Posted on November 23, 2009 at 01:20 am by Lawrence Solum

Tonight I had dinner with Dennis Patterson (the Chair of Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy). We ate at Baldovino, the wonderful trattoria owned by David Gardner, the brother of John Gardner, the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford. Legal Philosophy Everywhere! Posted on November 22, 2009 at 01:59 pm by Lawrence Solum

The Annual Rosenkranz Debate was held on November 14, 2009, during The Federalist Society's 2009 National Lawyers Convention. This debate featured Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; and Prof. John F. Manning of Harvard Law School as the moderator. Introduction by Eugene B. Meyer, President of the Federalist Society. RESOLVED: The United States Constitution Requires Federal... Posted on November 20, 2009 at 03:12 pm

Mark Levin, President of the Legal Landmark Foundation and author of Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, closed the 2009 National Lawyers Convention with this address on Saturday, November 14, 2009. Introduction by Mr. Leonard A. Leo, Executive Vice President of The Federalist Society. Posted on November 20, 2009 at 12:45 pm

The Federalist Society presented this panel discussion on Redistribution of Wealth at the 2009 National Lawyers Convention on Friday, November 13, 2009. Panelists included Hon. Paul S. Atkins of the Congressional Oversight Panel and former U.S. SEC Commissioner; Ms. Stephanie R. Breslow of Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP; Dean Paul G. Mahoney of the University of Virginia School of Law; Hon. Annette L. Nazareth of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP; and Judge Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of... Posted on November 20, 2009 at 09:52 am

In my last but one post I mentioned the importance of meta-reviews. Just came across a preview of a great one on the Columbia University Teachers College site, here (excellent site by the way -- well worth signing up for). Camilli, G., Vargas, S., Ryan, S. Barnett, W.S. (2010, forthcoming) Meta-analysis of the effects of early education interventions on cognitive and social development, Teachers College Record, 112, 3. The authors reviewed 123 comparative studies of early childhood... Posted on November 13, 2009 at 09:18 am by Paul Maharg

Since mentioning Arterian & Paul's legal ed summaries from SSRN in the last posting I've downloaded & used the iPhone app for SSRN (iTunes Store, free, here). Great. Also wanted to prove I can blog in less than 1500 words... Posted on November 13, 2009 at 07:17 am by Paul Maharg

Was live-blogging Enhancing Legal Education in Scotland, a legal ed conference hosted by UKCLE last week -- kudos to Julian Webb and his team for organising it, for it's difficult to bring together the disparate elements of Scots legal education -- but my own afternoon session and then many other thoughts intervened, so I've delayed this posting. Account of the day and reflections on Scottish legal education below the fold... Julian kicked off proceedings, and introduced the new Scotland... Posted on November 13, 2009 at 05:33 am by Paul Maharg

Japan spent the 1990s unsuccessfully trying to recover from a collapse of the Japanese banking industry caused by the bursting of a housing bubble, despite aggressive monetary and fiscal policies. As a result of those policies, Japanese national debt soared, but was financed mainly internally because of the very high Japanese personal savings rate. With its large surplus of exports over inputs, moreover, Japan accumulated dollars (and other currencies), which also reduced the debt burden.... Posted on November 15, 2009 at 03:41 pm

Japan has had a very slow rate of growth in its GDP since 1991, averaging just a little over 1 percent. Given this slow growth, and the government's continued failed efforts to prop up their economy by running large fiscal deficits, the ratio of government debt to its GDP has risen from only about 50% in 1995 to by far the highest ratio in the developed world, at about 170% in 2008. Estimates indicate that it could rise to over 200% by next year as the budget continues to spill red ink, and may... Posted on November 15, 2009 at 02:32 pm

/**/ Last week two pieces of news about the American economy were disclosed, with important implications for where the economy is going. On Thursday, the Labor Department reported that during the third quarter of 2009, productivity jumped at the remarkable annual rate of 9&#xc3&#x82&#xc2&#xbd%. On Friday, the Labor Department also reported that the October unemployment rate in the United States increased to over 10% for the first time in more than 25 years. The productivity numbers were not entirely ignored,... Posted on November 8, 2009 at 06:03 pm

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 strategies of marketing and communication. Mr B is unusually suited for this role. Since 1994 he poisoned Italian political life, after having wrecked the italian cultural environment with its commercial televisions. Its legacy, unfortunately, will be... Posted on September 3, 2009 at 09:48 pm by Lorenzo Zucca

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 those questions. And even those 'in the know' will have trouble chanting the praise of a strawman. Here comes the most important question? Why do European Member States want to re-elect him as President? Sadly, the only possible answer is that Barroso does... Posted on September 1, 2009 at 10:20 pm by Lorenzo Zucca

Berlin was like a honeymoon between America and Europe. But Obama's honey words, were a little too sweet: That is why America cannot turn inward. That is why Europe cannot turn inward. America has no better partner than Europe. Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic. Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global commitment to progress, to meet the... Posted on July 25, 2008 at 10:21 am

It would be absurd to think of the US as a developing nation or third world economy. However, recent comments by Chinese and European officials regarding the dollar sound more like those the United States may have made in the past about the Asian Tigers or former Soviet Bloc countries than something valued trade partners would say about each other. Despite this, and despite the root of the Posted on November 21, 2009 at 05:04 am by Joshua L Sturtevant

Bloomberg has a summary of the latest state unemployment numbers up. Michigan has the highest rate at an eye-popping 15.1 %, while California, Delaware, South Carolina and Florida all broke previous highs. Posted on November 20, 2009 at 04:15 pm by Joshua L Sturtevant

This is a reposting of a piece that I particularly like from a few weeks back. As always, comments are appreciated. It is generally tough to empathize with people who make tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars per week while being adored by millions to play a sport. This is especially true while the world is in the midst of a global economic crisis and on a day where headlines scream Posted on November 20, 2009 at 10:44 am by Joshua L Sturtevant

Investors.com - Another Radical Judge. Interesting and troubling editorial about a candidate for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Posted on November 12, 2009 at 07:18 am by Woodring Law

Supreme Court Justices debate, draw laughs at Tucson event | www.azstarnet.com &#xc2&#xae. Interesting brief article discussing Justices Scalia and Breyer's debate on how to interpret a constitution. Posted on October 27, 2009 at 01:20 pm by Woodring Law

One of the biggest economic concerns in Florida continues to be the decreased prices in the real property markets, both residential and more recently commercial. Any time this type of financial upheaval occurs, important legal cases will result, although sometime the maxim that difficult facts can result in bad law holds true. The classic example [...] Posted on October 16, 2009 at 08:29 am by Woodring Law

The Law Professor Blogs Network has ceased publication of this blog. Posted on August 16, 2009 at 11:44 am by Joe Hodnicki

I very highly recommend Al Roth's summary of Michael Sandel's BBC Reith Lectures on "Markets and Morality" -- available here. TSU Posted on June 17, 2009 at 07:29 am by lawandeconomics

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... Posted on June 10, 2009 at 10:22 am by lawandeconomics

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 a number of quibbles about Leiter interpretation (the most important is that I've noted since at least my 1996 essay on Realism for The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory that Felix Cohen was guilty of the kind of conceptual... Posted on April 14, 2009 at 07:40 am by Brian Leiter

My tentative Spring Quarter Syllabus (Download Jurisprudence II Syllabus 2009), for those who might be interested. Posted on March 28, 2009 at 03:40 pm by Brian Leiter

A new poll, which might provide some useful information for younger scholars figuring out where to submit their work. UPDATE: I should probably remind readers that I am no longer an editor of Legal Theory (I served in that capacity from 2000 through the middle of last year), though I remain on the editorial board. (Les Green and I are editing the new Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law, which, for now, involves only comissioned pieces [the first volume will include new essays by Gardner,... Posted on March 12, 2009 at 07:45 am by Brian Leiter