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19 Dec 2007, 7:58 am
So gift cards are even more interesting than I first thought. Theft is one problem (more in a minute) and transferablity is another. As readers of newspapers or this blog know, millions of dollars of gift cards go unused. Perhaps $2 million a year for Best Buy alone, and once a card is unused for two years it is, apparently, quite unlikely ever to be used. I had argued that even if we thought of gift cards as generating some deadweight loss (as people bought things they did not much… [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 7:08 pm
Funny how convenient this is. The government says it ‘lost’ a key DVD of the final interrogation of Padilla. Newsweek has the scoop:
Terror Watch: The Missing Padilla Video: … what happened to a crucial video recording of Padilla being interrogated in a U.S. military brig that has mysteriously disappeared?The missing DVD dates from March 2, 2004. It contains a video of the last interrogation session of Padilla, then a declared “enemy combatant” under an order from… [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 10:07 am
Cross-posted from The Cardinal Lawyer.The University of Louisville School of Law proudly hosted the Louisville premiere of the documentary, Louis Brandeis: The People's Attorney, on November 13, 2007. (See also the Law School news ticker and The Cardinal Lawyer.) Courtesy of a tip from Scott Campbell, Ratio Juris is pleased to present a brief clip from The People's Attorney. You may also view the video courtesy of the Savings Bank Life Insurance Co. of Massachusetts.Best of all, however you… [read post]
29 Dec 2008, 3:04 pm
I am absolutely convinced that the mass media in this country is constitutionally unable to provide anything remotely resembling fair coverage of what is going on in Gaza (which would include a background knowledge of the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, a history of the Middle East, a history of U.S. foreign policy in the region, international law, including humanitarian law, etc., etc.). I recommend--indeed, implore--you to read Juan Cole at Informed Comment and the reports, analysis… [read post]
3 Aug 2009, 8:23 am
In today's Times, Michael Hiltzik provides us with a succinct account of the shenanigans if not machinations of the health insurance industry as it fights to gut meaningful health care reform in this country:[I]f the insurers have proved anything over the last 15 years as the health crisis has gathered speed like an avalanche roaring downhill, it's that they're part of the problem, not the solution.The firms take billions of dollars out of the U.S. healthcare wallet as profits, while imposing… [read post]
27 May 2009, 1:15 pm
One of the themes developing in the legal blogoshpere following the nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court concerns the role of the legal professoriate in elevating the debate. (For example.) That prompts me to toss out a link to a recent post by Dean Joseph Kearney on the Marquette Faculty Blog concerning that role more generally. In it, Dean Kearney discusses recent comments by Marquette alum and Brooklyn Law Professor Aaron Twerski and Marquette faculty member (and Prawfsblawg… [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 1:16 am
‘I am not an anarchist because I believe political states provide vitally important benefits that are not to be secured in their absence, and they supply these benefits without requiring their subjects to make unreasonable sacrifices. This defense of statism openly depends upon the truth of three claims: (1) political states supply crucial benefits, (2) these benefits would be unavailable in the absence of political states, and (3) states can render their services without imposing unreasonable… [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 4:25 pm
“Social democracy offered one possible solution to the problematic social place of psychoanalysis. [That problematic ‘place’ was due largely to the ‘fact that all of Freud’s early associates were Jewish,’ bearing in mind that ‘Jews were the radical “other” in European life of the period.’] Austrian socialism opposed anti-Semitism and was less economistic and more oriented toward cultural questions than most socialist traditions. Many of the original figures in Freud’s circle… [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 4:42 pm
Prompted by discussion of a recent film, the “Inside Job” (see here and here for reviews), John Steele of the Legal Ethics Forum asks, “Do Economists Need a Code of Ethics?” I give a brief reply in two comments (please bear in mind that these are blog comments, hence the subject is addressed in a somewhat cursory manner).Update: I’ve responded in the comments section above to a question from Professor Mark D. White of the Economics and Ethics blog asking what I think of the argument of… [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 1:57 pm
"On behalf of Jeff Immelt and other sane people at GE, I say, ‘f**k you.'" I'm hoping Alan is right, but if he is I'm going to have to delete what I've just put into my Agency, Partnership LLC class... [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 3:23 pm
As I will be turning my attention to other matters for a bit, I thought to make available some links essential to following developments related to the quest for democracy and social justice in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). I’ve not included well-known mass media sources (e.g., Guardian, Huffington Post, The New York Times…). While this list is far from complete, I suspect it will suffice for most purposes, as many of these sites contain further links that are also helpful. Let me… [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 5:55 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, more weather-related problems in New Orleans (my wife and son are digging out in Indianapolis). The night before last, at about 3:00 a.m.,... [read post]
7 May 2011, 9:05 am
The following was inspired in the first instance by arguments culled from Michael Luntley’s The Meaning of Socialism (1990).First Assumption: “There is more to the achievement of the good life than the satisfaction of individuals’ actual preferences.” Call this “The Good Principle.” We might recall in this regard Mahatma Gandhi’s definition of “civilization” as that which points to the performance of duty and the observance of morality. As Raghavan Iyer notes, “Mirabeau, who was… [read post]
18 Feb 2007, 6:23 am
The problems that can arise in working with one's spouse resulted in the censure of a judge by the Wyoming Supreme Court. The judge had hired an employee to work with him when he was in the county attorney's office.... [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 8:38 am
“Psychoanalysis is arguably the single most important intellectual development of the twentieth century. Comparable to the theory of evolution in the controversy it has caused and continues to cause, psychoanalysis informs part of our daily discourse in a way that evolution has never done. Terms such as unconscious, repressed, ego, ambivalent, complex, projection, denial, and double-bind enter into our every walk of life whenever people talk about mental states and the reasons for human actions.… [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 8:56 am
The Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) has submitted comments to the ABA on a proposed new Rule 3.4(g), which would make it unethical for government lawyers to request waivers of the attorney-client privilege and work product protection as a... [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 9:45 am
Fair question (and background links) here from How Appealing's prolific Howard Bashman and the paper he quotes: A parking problem: The St. Petersburg Times today contains an editorial that begins, Has it gotten to the point where it needs to... [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 4:48 pm
One of my traditions in teaching professional responsibility is to show a film called Legal Heroes by Larry Dubin in the last class. It is the inspiring story of three lawyers of diverse backgrounds who made remarkable contributions to the... [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 5:15 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw (having a Dennis Miller-style rant early in the morning). I am prepping for what at Tulane is known as Contracts II, the required course in the second semester of the first year in which we teach... [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 10:47 am
Posted by Alan Childress A little off topic, but current to the afterglow of the Law Society Association annual meeting in Berlin (which Jeff and others blogged on nicely over at PrawfsBlawg), is this new book just out: Intellectual Property,... [read post]