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4 Jun 2010, 3:03 pm
It seems that in a number of areas of legal scholarship (intellectual property, privacy just to name some that I follow), law profs are increasingly writing about extra-legal issues - such as the power of norms. I have read a lot of good legal scholarship (and written some hopefully passable scholarship myself) that talks about extra-legal means of regulation and that focuses on things like norms and market forces as regulators. But recently I've wondered if this is the appropriate role for lawyers?… [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 7:39 am
2009 C|M Alumnus Patrick J. Charles’ blog post, Placing the Declaration of Independence in Historical Context: Thoughts on Educating Current and Future Generations about America’s Founding Document, discusses teaching the Declaration of Independence in its proper context.
“Perhaps the best way to do so is to look at the Declaration through the lens of a complaint in a court of law. A complaint is simply a legal pleading that stipulates to the court the parties involved, the court’s… [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 2:59 pm
I’ve had the impression that, over the time I’ve been following environmental law, there’s been a dramatic increase in the amount of scholarship in the field. I did a search of the Westlaw JLR database for (“environmental regulation” “air pollution” “water pollution” “endangered species”) with data restrictions. This search is only an approximation but it should capture a high proportion of environmental articles and not too many others. To the extent there are errors,… [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 11:55 pm
Peter Klein offers up some thoughts on “reference bloat” in academic journals:
Nature News (via Bronwyn Hall):
One in five academics in a variety of social science and business fields say they have been asked to pad their papers with superfluous references in order to get published. The figures, from a survey published today in Science, also suggest that journal editors strategically target junior faculty, who in turn were more willing to acquiesce.
I think reference bloat is a problem,… [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 9:41 pm
Each year, at its annual meeting, the American Society of International Law bestows a number of book and article awards. Here are those presented at the 2010 annual meeting:Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship: Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009).Certificate of Merit in a specialized area of international law: Mark Osiel, The End of Reciprocity: Terror, Torture, and the Law of War… [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 1:00 am
Issues in Legal Scholarship, a faculty-edited UC Berkeley Law journal, has just published an issue on "Denaturalizing Citizenship," edited by Leti Volpp. It is a symposium on Linda Bosniak's The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership (2006) and Ayelet Shachar's The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (2009).LHB readers may be particularly interested in the contributions by Rogers Smith and Mark Tushnet. Here are the abstracts:The Political Challenges of… [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 8:30 am
Jason Eiseman of the Yale Law School Library has posted Time to Turn the Page on Print Legal Information, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
In his post, Mr. Eiseman poses the question, “Is there a good reason why judges should not be blogging their opinions?” In his response, Mr. Eiseman discusses a range of timely issues related to the transition to digital legal publishing, including the costs of print publication, the… [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 7:18 am
Alison L. LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School, has posted Rhetoric and Reality in Early American Legal History: A Reply to Gordon Wood. It is a response to "Federalism from the Bottom Up," Professor Gordon S. Wood's (as yet forthcoming, I believe) review of her book in the University of Chicago Law Review 78 (2011): 705. Here is LaCroix's abstract:In this reply to a review by Gordon Wood of Alison LaCroix’s book The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (Harvard University Press,… [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 8:00 am
Has been posted on Balkinization and on SSRN The First Amendment is an Information Policy. This paper sounds like it could have interesting implications for an issue which I intend to return to on the scholarship front, that is, what happens when some of what appears in law reviews has been "sponsored" or "commissioned" ? And when I say "sponsored" or "commissioned" I am not referring to law school summer research grants. Such grants are never conditioned on the topic or on the author reaching a… [read post]
30 May 2012, 8:13 pm
An interesting new joint venture between Oxford University Press, Ariel Ezrachi, and Bill Kovacic (GW). Sounds like a fantastic idea and with top notch management and might be of interest to many of our readers.
The Journal of Antitrust Enforcement
Call for Papers – The Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (OUP) Oxford University Press is delighted to announce the launch of a new competition law journal dedicated to antitrust enforcement. The Journal of Antitrust Enforcement forms a joint… [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 11:00 pm
During November and early December, “the luminaries and sages” of the editorial board of The Green Bag select from a list of nominees those works that should appear in the 2012 Almanac & Reader as exemplars of good legal writing from the year just passed.Historical entries in the book category include: • Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press 2011)• Clare Cushman, Courtwatchers: Eyewitness Accounts in Supreme… [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 9:20 pm
Mae C. Quinn, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law, has posted “Feminizing” Courts: Lay Volunteers and the Integration of Social Work in Progressive Reform, a chapter in Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law, ed. Tracy A Thomas & T.J. Boisseau (NYU Press 2011). Here is the abstract:CreditThis essay, appearing as a chapter in Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law (N.Y.U. Press 2011), uncovers groundbreaking court innovations employed by Judge Anna… [read post]
27 Jun 2010, 11:51 am
Dr. Nanning Zhang of China University of Political Science and Law, and Professor Douglas Walton of the University of Windsor Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, have published Recent Trends in Evidence Law in China and the New Evidence Scholarship, 9 Law, Probability and Risk Issue No. 2, pages 103-129 (2010). Here is the abstract:
This paper reviews the history and status quo of evidence theory in China and analyses its gradual shift from a pluralistic evidence law to a… [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 12:00 pm
Here's another new one from the Law & Politics Book Review: Greg Marquis (University of New Brunswick Saint John) reviews FREEDOM’S CONDITION IN THE U.S.-CANADA BORDERLANDS IN THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION (Carolina Academic Press), edited by Tony Freyer and Lyndsay Campbell. Here's a taste:This volume of original research essays, which began to germinate when legal history scholars met at a conference in 2008, is a useful addition to a growing list of studies on North American borderlands in general … [read post]
13 Dec 2012, 9:52 am
Professor Dr. Monica Palmirani, Professor Dr. Ugo Pagallo, Professor Dr. Pompeu Casanovas, and Professor Dr. Giovanni Sartor, have edited a new book entitled AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems – Models and Ethical Challenges for Legal Systems, Legal Language and Legal Ontologies, Argumentation and Software Agents (Springer, 2012).
The book contains revised selected papers from International Workshop AICOL-III, Held as Part of the 25th IVR Congress, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,… [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 5:04 am
Some of our readers who aren’t in law schools probably wonder what environmental law professors actually do. (Some of our readers who are in law schools might be wondering the same thing!). I thought it might be helpful to provide a sample of recent scholarship. Here are recent lists of working papers from SSRN.com, which provides on-line prepublication access to papers.
From the Climate Law list:
Expediting Innovation: The Quest for a New Sputnik Moment by Sarah Tran, Southern Methodist… [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
Kenneth W. Mack, Harvard Law School, has published Law and Local Knowledge in the History of the Civil Rights Movement in the Harvard Law Review. It is a review of Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, by his soon-to-be Harvard colleague, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, University of Virginia School of Law. Here is the abstract:We live in chastened times. A generation ago, young legal academics often desired to explain how the Supreme Court could be an effective… [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 4:00 am
Barbara Babcock (Stanford--Law, Emerita) has written an essay for blog readers about how she constructed a book tour to promote Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz (Stanford, 2011). For more information on Babcock's book about the first woman admitted to the California bar, see the Women's Legal History websiteand the articles cited here. Babcock's post, entitled the "The Year of Saying “Yes,” follows.courtesy Stanford Law SchoolFor the last year I have been on a… [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 3:33 pm
Senior Associate Dean Richard A. Danner of the Duke University School of Law, has posted two new papers on open access to legal information, on SSRN:
Open Access to Legal Scholarship: Dropping the Barriers to Discourse and Dialogue (2011), forthcoming in Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology. Abstract:
This article focuses on the importance of free and open access to legal scholarship and commentary on the law. It argues that full understanding of authoritative legal texts requires… [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 4:00 am
I just finished reading "Screening Out the Introverts," a Chronicle of Higher Education Advice essay by William Pannapacker (Hope College). The essay is now several months old, but given that it's the start of a new academic year and the beginning of the hiring season, I wanted to spotlight it. The inspiration behind the piece was Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain:The book is a hybrid work of cultural history, advocacy, personal… [read post]