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18 Jun, 2007 12:50 am
Marc Lane Roark, University of Tulsa, has posted a new paper, Loneliness and the Law: Solitude, Action, and Power in the Living Speech of James Boyd White. Here's the abstract: The law is filled with empty spaces - what is not written; what is not said but meant; what is unsayable or
unprintable. This article describes the spaces that such emptiness creates in both individual lawyers and in the
12 Jun 1:01 am
... In contrast, those who put other values ahead of wealth accumulation for its own sake or for the sake of acquiring disproportionate power end up benefitting society, whether
through unpaid volunteer work, dedication to underpaid careers such as ... of "life, liberty, and happiness" and who want to rewrite the core document as "the pursuit of wealth and
power by those of us who have appointed ourselves to run things." It is for that reason that I would support the proposition that accumulating good ...
28 Feb, 2007 11:23 am
MILLER CENTER LAUNCHES NATIONAL WAR POWERS COMMISSION Former Secretaries of State Baker and Christopher to Lead Bipartisan Group to Examine
Constitutional Issues The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia today announced the formation of the National War Powers Commission, a private bipartisan panel led by former Secretaries of State James A. Baker, III and Warren
3 Aug, 2007 11:48 pm
On October 3rd of this year, the Supreme Court will entertain arguments is New York State Board of Elections v. López Torres, which centers on
the method by which the state of New York selects its trial judges. Margarita López ... in that state violate the First Amendment Rights of
both the voting public and herself by concentrating an unfairly prodigious amount of power in the hands of political bosses. The District Court agreed with Ms. Torres, ruling:
Based on the substantial body of evidence ...
6 Oct, 2008 7:04 am
James E. Pfander, Northwestern, has a new article, Judicial Compensation and the Definition of Judicial Power in the Early Republic. It
is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review (2008). Here's the abstract: Article III's provision for the compensation of federal judges has been much celebrated for the no-diminution
provision that forecloses judicial pay cuts. But other features of Article
30 Jun 12:32 am
Many legal scholars have been using their summers to update their SSRN pages, posting earlier scholarship. One recent posting is Republican Moments: the Role of Direct Popular
Power in the American Constitutional Order by James Gray Pope, Rutgers Law School, Newark. It appeared in the University of Pennsylvania
Law Review (1990). (On republicanism, an important intervention in the late 20th
11 May 1:05 am
For several months, I have been reading Michael Quinion's Gallimaufry, subtitled "A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary." This is a book that I try to digest several pages at a time.
Each chapter brings dozens of new words for me, words that are so old that they have passed out of common usage. It's not that I need ammunition for crossword puzzle solving attempts,
but that I simply enjoy learning about language. If even a dozen of these words enter into my everyday vocabulary or writing, it ...
27 Feb, 2008 3:10 pm
... the more limited "coastal areas" urged by the Doudas. The Court applied this broader definition to support its interpretation "that the Commission's power to regulate scenic
and visual resources extends inland as far as the boundary of the coastal zone" and would allow the ... four and a half miles inland. Please feel free to contact attorneys Ed
Grutzmacher and Chrystal James, authors of this alert, with questions regarding this legal alert. Contact Meyers Nave's Land Use Practice Group
Principals ...
24 Apr 3:31 pm
... private investor model of investment. The object of SWFs should not be to project state power. Rather, it is to "maximize risk-adjusted financial returns in a manner
consistent with its investment policy ... We Have Enough to Worry About: The Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund, 118 YALE L.J. POCLET PART 109
(2008). 28 "SWF investments are both beneficial ... GOVERNANCE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT: ORDER AND CHANGE IN WORLD POLITICS 58-101 (James N. Rosenau
and Ernst Otto Czempiel, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University ...
1 Oct 3:31 am
... to these trends and seized upon opportunities created by these movements to aggrandize powerL.Q. 1001 (2004); Martha Minow,
Outsourcing Power: How Privatizing Military Efforts Challenges Accountability, Professionalism, ... 27, 2006, at 3, http://justice.gov/opa/documents/nsa_myth_v_reality.pdf;
James Risen & Eric Lichtblau, Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers ...
4 May, 2008 10:14 pm
... Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. James studies how the law governing the
creation and use of computer software affects the distribution of wealth, power, and freedom in society. As a lawyer and technologist, he aims to help these ... his blog, The
Laboratorium. Some of his publications include: * Information Policy for the Library of Babel, 3 J. Bus. & Tech. L. 29 (2008) * The
Structure of Search Engine Law, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (2007) * ...
27 Nov, 2006 12:16 pm
... presidency" model of Bush-Cheney: Roberts and the Apex of Presidential Power link Bush's Absolute Power Grab, here. This essay covers the signing into law ... Alito.
Another article looking at the same issues in the context of Alito's confirmation, from the L.A. Times, at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public
Life website, here. On Findlaw ... Bush's use of signing statements here, from July, 2006, "Power of the Pen: The president uses signing statements to decree which laws apply to
him ," by James Bovard ...
24 May, 2008 9:01 am
... the following 12 entertainers. 12. 50 Cent The King of Drama At the age of 12, Curtis James Jackson III (aka 50 Cent) started dealing
drugs. He was then arrested, ... the sole reason that mom's everywhere are breaking the bank - and that's pretty damn powerful. 9. Bono The Global Ambassador If there is one
person who fully demonstrates that activism ... a fashion line with her mom called House of Dereon, and is the face of Pepsi and L'Oreal. She's
got piles of personality and charm to boot and it also ...
8 Jun 1:12 pm
I have twice posted in the past saying that James Purnell would be our next Prime Minister. First last July (here) and most recently last month
(here). I see that Guido Fawkes this evening reported and then ... Tony Blair and I think that Purnell remains Labour's only chance of avoiding complete annihilation. So, as I have now
said twice before: watch this space. James Purnell as the next Prime Minister. Oh, and I see Paddy Power is offering odds of 12-1 for
Purnell as the next Labour leader.
5 Jul 8:31 am
... new trial) (also see --> JNOV) IN RE COLUMBIA MEDICAL CENTER OF LAS COLINAS, SUBSIDIARY, L.P. D/B/A LAS COLINAS MEDICAL CENTER,
ANTONETTE CONNER, AND ANNA MATHEW; from Dallas ... AND BOBBIE FERGUSON v. BUILDING MATERIALS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, CPC LOGISTICS, INC., AND ROBERT JAMES MADDOX; from Dallas County;8th district (08-07-00051-CV, 276 SW3d 45, 06- ... claim to the trial court. We review a grant of summary judgment de novo.
Tex. Mun. Power Agency v. Pub. Util. Comm'n of Tex., 253 S.W.3d 184, ...
23 Feb 4:15 pm
... without graphics) is automatically produced by SlideShare as well at the website, and the text below is what was produced for this Power Point Presentation. Since I am just
starting to translate this PPT into German ... Cohen, Reason and Nature, p. 137.]" Quoted from Edward Kasner and James Roy Newman, Mathematics
and the Imagination, drawings by Rufus Isaacs, Simon & ... Acropolis, Susa, Iran, Bronze and copper, H. 1.29 m; L. 0.73 m, Jacques de
Morgan excavations, 1903." Statue of Queen Napirasu, ...
28 Apr 4:45 pm
... A more accurate if rather vague view of the situation is given by Nicholas Gruen: Be that as it may, one of the huge things that powered us into the modern world was the idea
of subjecting monarchs to the rule of law - particularly in Holland and the UK ... case, William had no power to renege, not only on debts incurred under his reign, but on the
debts incurred by his Stuart predecessors Charles II and James II. This would not have meant too much of the Crown had retained a unilateral
ability to ...
11 Sep 8:42 am
Our prior coverage of the case is here. You remember this one -- the 11th Circuit reversed Judge Highsmith's sentence of probation for James
Hendrick, "once Monroe County's powerful government attorney." Well, he was resentenced today before Judge Zloch (because Highsmith retired) and got probation, again. From the
Herald article: U.S. District Judge William Zloch gave Hendrick credit for time already served on probation. ...
9 Nov 2:40 am
... called 'Overkill' where the author James Miles postulates the opinion that China is piling up more weapons than it appears to need, Mr
Miles also writes about the need for China to develop its soft power: "Soft power was mentioned for ... growing significance in the "competition in overall national
strength". China should therefore "enhance culture as part of the soft power of our country"." Read The Economist article here. Copyright can protect cultural manifestations, so
makes copyright crucial ...
30 Sep 8:49 am
... Committee, hosted an event to introduce the official Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. They were joined by a broad coalition which they said showed ... release from
Senators Kerry and Boxer, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act will cut carbon pollution and stimulate the economy by creating millions of jobs ... Democrats release of
the bill, Republicans on the EPW Committee, lead by Ranking Member Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), outspoken critic of climate change science and
legislation, ...
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