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11 Sep, 2007 4:24 am
I am posting below a response by Steven Smith to several critical reactions to his essay on the state of jurisprudence: By Steven D.
Smith What's "Interesting" (about Jurisprudence)? To my considerable surprise, a little essay that I posted on the SSRN a few days ago has
provoked a small and no doubt short-lived commotion, generating reactions from Brian Tamanaha, Larry Solum, Jeff Lipshaw, and Brian Leiter, ...
4 Sep, 2007 12:29 pm
I am happy to announce the inaugural episode of "Law Talk: The Legal Scholarship Podcast." My guest for this episode is Steven D. Smith,
the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and the Co-Director of San Diego's Institute for Law and Philosophy. In this episode, we discuss Steve's book
Law's Quandary as well as his recently published lecture, "The (Always) Immanent Death ...
10 Sep, 2007 12:43 am
Nate Oman's inaugural episode of "Law Talk: The Legal Scholarship Podcast" features San Diego law prof Steven D. Smith. Smith's book Law's Quandary as well as his recently published lecture, "The (Always) Immanent Death of Law." is the topic of...
23 Nov 3:25 pm
... founder of the local endocrinological institution, who turned out to be a diabetic cowboy who did not think women should be doctors, by gum. He is now in a better place, and so are
we. Then unfortunately she decided to go shopping. Let's just say in those days Boise was a long way from midtown. You'd have a lot more luck looking for a two-man saw than a
dress. Boise has now become a much more livable city by those of us with elevated tastes. But by all accounts, being a Congressman really sucks.
6 Dec, 2007 7:05 pm
... Rhode Island. The Providence (R.I.) Journal has this blog post noting that Judge Smith was born in Idaho, but it is doubtful that
Smith's confirmation will be delayed over concern about whether someone from Idaho should ... Smith;
Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith; Eighth Circuit Judge Lavenski R. Smith; Ninth Circuit Judge Milan
D. Smith, Jr.; and Ninth Circuit Judge N. Randy Smith, all of whom were appointed to their
current courts by Republican Presidents. Today's White House announcement also ...
22 Sep 9:23 am
... Judge Walter Smith in Waco in preparation for my forthcoming clerkship with Judge Sam B. Hall, Jr. in Marshall. So two or three days a week
I'd drive ... bench to patiently explain to me that I was actually right on some of the issues surrounding the objections I'd heard, but he then explained the concept of
preservation of error and pursuing ... had to do it for virtually ever document you tried to admit. Offered - denied - I'd like to make an offer of proof on that, Your Honor...
over, and over and ...
5 Feb, 2008 12:55 pm
... still limited set of dutyholders. See Thomas W. Merrill & Henry E. Smith, The Property/Contract Interface, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 773
(2001). When notice is ... some combination of statute and regulation. (For an application to IP, see Henry E. Smith, Intellectual Property as
Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information, 116 Yale Law Journal ... dutyholders. There are many issues raised by the LG v. Quanta case, and I'd be interested in how Molly
and others think this fits into her overall scheme ...
16 May 1:46 pm
On Thursday, April 30, 2009, after two days of deliberations, the jury in the trial of Bonfigli v. Strachan, Sonoma County Superior Court Case No. SCV-239528, returned a verdict in
favor of the defense. Defendant Michael D. Smith was represented by lead counsel Rachel Dollar of Smith Dollar PC. Heather Bussing second chaired the majority of the trial and was assisted by Allison Tussey, both of Smith Dollar PC. Defendant Alan Strachan was represented by … Read More...
14 Jun, 2007 6:40 pm
... , though different in many ways, are great wasters of political inheritance. They throw it away as if they'd earned it and could do with it what they liked. Bush senior
inherited a vibrant country and a party at ... won in 1988 by saying he would govern as Reagan had. Yet he did not understand he'd been elected to Reagan's third term. He thought
he'd been elected because they liked him. And so he raised taxes, sundered a hard-won coalition, and found himself shocked to lose his party the presidency, ...
31 Aug, 2008 12:07 am
... to think it's unacceptable to take bribes. She sounds like exactly the sort of person I'd like to tie up in a ribbon, deliver to Washington, and say have a nice day. As to
inexperience, I'd rather have a smart young resident who wants to save my life, than a highly experienced professor of medicine who wants to take my liver and give it ... . If
she has a boyfriend stashed in Seattle (though I don't see how she'd have time) and a bank account in the Caymans, I'll have to take it all back, or ...
11 May 1:18 pm
... see. If you were to even try to explain to any old West sorts what Brooks means by somehow mitigating the booms and the busts, they'd probably spit tobacco juice on your
shoe. To mitigate these booms and busts, if you tried to give them money they'd say they didn't need charity, and if you tried to take their money, they'd shoot you. The
reason why you had an old West to inspire the movies was that people were seeking economic opportunities at very high risk, sometimes ...
13 Sep, 2006 7:26 am
Scott Smith is an Ameriprise financial advisor I've worked with for years. He's top notch. Read about him here. [ameripriseadvisors.com]
11 Dec, 2008 8:58 am
... that's hardly certain. But honestly, what did the American people expect? Chicago is the bottomless pit of American political corruption. I've read you can trace back machine
players there to the pals of Al Capone. To find anything equally corrupt, you'd have to go to, well, Little Rock. When we should have been getting briefings on the Chicago
background, we were getting reflections on the wonderfulness of Obama. Even the New York Times will be dragged along, like the husband who cannot stop ...
9 Nov, 2006 10:32 am
... to the District of Columbia Bar, claiming that Clinton's federal pardon eliminated his local disbarment. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit did not agree, and the
U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal. To former D.C. delegate Walter Fauntroy, Borders' case had a spiritual quality to it. "Being pardoned by the president is like
being pardoned by Jesus," Fauntroy sermonized. Thankfully, the Supremes evidently disagreed with this " ...
17 Jun, 2007 5:42 pm
... on fast food, in turn, may reflect lack of family time because we work too much: U.S. G.D.P. per capita is high partly because employed Americans work many more hours than
their European counterparts. A broader explanation would be ... New York Times, they gradually become complete hacks who confuse their prejudices for insights, and shore nuff, look at
Krugman. Q.E.D. I had thought the Dutch were famous for being tall. Reagan was tall and his nickname was Dutch. The big galoot in the Western is ...
6 Jun, 2008 3:11 pm
In the UK, where else, they're working on designer babies, sort of. (If they're so smart, you'd think they'd be able to come up with a way to monetize information instead
of a stupid magazine subscription, but not yet. So subscription necessary to read the whole article. Though I'm not sure I would bother. I signed up for an online subscription to New
Scientist and never got it to work right.) More fun news: Zombie caterpillars. Maybe God created everything except wasps, and wasps were made by ...
9 Jun, 2008 5:37 pm
... description by Sir Edgar of the solidity of Hon. Mugabe and all that. In 1979, Mugabe was the bee's knees with the British liberal establishment. But I think you would have to say
that is one project that has turned out very badly. In retrospect, I'd think you'd have to say it's too bad Mugabe didn't step on a land mine.) I gather that in Irish
historiography circles, a Leninist version of Irish history is popular these days. Ireland is supposed to be a great inspirational story of revolutionary ...
25 Jul, 2008 11:18 pm
Please, read this story only if you are prepared to weep. Prepare yourself for the sadness, the insupportable tragedy of it. As Samuel Johnson said of Lear, some things are not to be
borne. And so on. I've warned you.
29 Oct, 2008 11:44 pm
a) More objective than essay exams b) Easier to grade c) fairer to students d) all of the above The correct answer is (d). In my opinion. Thus I disagree with the long
post linked to at Marginal Revolution, which I admit I did not read carefully because it was so long. I have given many multiple choice exams ("MCE's") in my day, though not so much
lately. There is a lot to be said for them. First, if you have graded your way through a stack of essay exams, you know how subjective the process is. ...
8 Nov, 2008 12:20 am
... to then-candidate Bill Clinton in 1991 is named Daley. Bill Daley, the mayor's brother. Loyal readers know why I put the (D-Tomczak) at the end of Emanuel's name. It refers
to the corrupt Daley administration Water Department boss, Donald Tomczak, now in federal prison in ... me because I'm more than that." I agree. He's an able political infighter, and if
you were in a fight, you'd probably want Emanuel with you. He's smart and ruthless, and he knows politics. Perhaps that's why Obama chose him. ...
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