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8 Jul 2011, 8:16 am by David Lat
Homer’s epics, Texas was created, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier, died at the Alamo, King Kong attacked Manhattan, and then, in a completely reactionary move, I was conceived.I was born 9 months and 2 weeks later by a midwife/wolf named Janie Jean, who would prove very influential during my formative years. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 11:53 am
International participants who have are unable to register in this fashion should contact Andrew Majeske, ajmajeske@gmail.com to work out other arrangements.Conference WebsiteMore conference information will be posted  at http://litandlawjjay.blogspot.com/ Conference SpeakersAmartya Sen, Keynote Speaker: The conference’s keynote speaker is Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, the Thomas W. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 2:15 am by Laura Sandwell
Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police and Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes (A Partnership), heard 17 – 20 January 2012. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 4:57 am by Daithí
 (Thomas also writes a dissent, but it’s about the lack of constitutional rights of under 18s as a broader principle). [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 11:43 am by Andrew Hamm
(That absence was made even more apparent by the presence in the audience of Justice Clarence Thomas, who in McDonald v. [read post]
5 Dec 2023, 7:56 am by scottgaille
  Thomas Dudley, How Many Businesses Are There in America and What Does it Mean for Employee Ownership? [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 5:00 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Indeed, my co-blogger Eric Segall wrote an excellent column last week discussing an essay by Thomas Homer-Dixon, a Canadian scholar who studies "the causes of war, social breakdown, revolution, ethnic violence and genocide" and who warned in a recent opinion piece in The Toronto Globe and Mail that "Canada must prepare" for the possible collapse of the American polity.I highly recommend Professor Segall's column, which summarizes the issues clearly… [read post]
3 May 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The most politically experienced justice, ironically or not, is Clarence Thomas, who at least headed a reasonably important executive agency. [read post]
10 Oct 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” After the Revolution, America “energetically pressed” the claims of slaveholders against Britain through its principal spokesmen, John Adams, Gouverneur Morris, John Jay, and Thomas Jefferson. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 8:10 am by Michael Gerhardt
Second, some people attach importance to the fact that in 1968 President Lyndon Johnson nominated Justice Abe Fortas to replace Earl Warren as Chief Justice and Homer Thornberry to take Fortas’s seat, but the Senate confirmed neither. [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 2:48 pm by Guest Blogger
For the symposium on Lawrence Lessig, Fidelity and Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2019).I am grateful to Jack Balkin and the Balkinization blog for the careful and powerful collection of review essays based on my book Fidelity & Constraint (2019). [read post]
30 Jun 2019, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Justice Thomas only this past week, for example, indicated that the Court should not be hesitant to overrule its own precedents should they be manifestly unjust.I realize that I basically agree with the McCloskeyan approach and, therefore, am inclined to agree with much of Lessig’s argument insofar as it is similar. [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 12:43 pm
Banks County Includes the city of Homer. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 10:03 am by Rick Garnett
” As Saul Goodman (echoing Homer Simpson) might put it: “Tough, but fair. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 3:00 am by Terry Hart
Virgil borrowed much from Homer; Bacon drew from earlier as well as contemporary minds; Coke exhausted all the known learning of his profession; and even Shakespeare and Milton, so justly and proudly our boast as the brightest originals would be found to have gathered much from the abundant stores of current knowledge and classical studies in their days. [read post]