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2 May 2011, 2:50 pm
(Eugene Volokh) As I noted on the thread about the will calling for distribution “according to Islamic Laws and Sharia,” traditional Islamic law appears to call for sons to get double the share that daughters get. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 5:03 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Rashada v. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 11:14 am
(Eugene Volokh) Newsday reports: A group of teens spotted Sunday evening slapping up stickers along a Bellmore street [including on a lamp post and a Chamber of Commerce sign] could be charged with felonies for posting white supremacist messages and images .... [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 6:55 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A commenter on an earlier gun license thread writes: It isn’t just young, pretty women who get raped, by a long shot. [read post]
20 May 2010, 11:18 am
(Eugene Volokh) Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook analogized the individual right to bear arms to the individual right to vote, and reasoned that, given that states may deny misdemeanants the right to vote, they should be equally able to deny them the right to bear arms. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 4:06 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Two years ago, Jeff Rowes of the Institute for Justice blogged about a case they were bringing seeking to establish the legality of paying people for bone marrow cells, notwithstanding the National Organ Transplant Act. [read post]
1 Nov 2011, 7:02 pm
(Ilya Somin) I agree with most of what co-blogger Eugene Volokh writes about the benefits of have a wide range of student groups at law schools, including ones that focus on specific ethnic or religious groups. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 3:36 pm
Blogs were burning up on Friday over this blog post by a California law professor (Eugene Volokh) that suggested that 5th Circuit nominee and current Miss. [read post]
2 May 2012, 12:26 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The Wilmington News-Journal reports on a controversy at the University of Delaware involving what may or may not be an attack motivated by sexual orientation: A University of Delaware student charged with a hate crime [and battery] after allegedly shoving a gay student to the floor at a house party in Newark earlier this month insists that he has been “falsely accused. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 3:31 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A commenter writes, apropos my post that discussed how the word “slut” could some times be pejorative and sometimes not, So now we’ve gone from offensiveness as determined by what the speaker said, through what the subject “felt”, and back to what the speaker “intended”. [read post]
11 Sep 2007, 12:04 pm
Over at VC, Eugene Volokh posted news about a college scholarship open to bloggers. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 10:25 am
Following up on this post, Eugene offers a somewhat different and no doubt better informed view of the merits of the Ninth Circuit opinion in this case. [read post]
1 May 2010, 2:54 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Here’s a message that I got in response to the earlier posts on the Harvard e-mail controversy. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 8:17 am
(Eugene Volokh) And same for all of you who mock young earthers, or devout Scientologists, or believers in miracles — and all who say that, for instance, racist or sexist religious beliefs are contemptible — and maybe even all those who, even politely, contend that rival religions’ views are wrong and will deny salvation to the holders of those views: The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 11:23 am
(Eugene Volokh) The Brisbane Times reports that: A Queensland University of Technology lawyer[,] ... [read post]
27 May 2011, 9:47 am
(Eugene Volokh) FIRE — the top defender of university student free speech rights — is looking for a new Justice Robert H. [read post]
16 Jul 2010, 3:50 pm
(Eugene Volokh) This is a difficult and recurring question, and arises with regard to a wide range of privileges — lawyer-client, psychotherapist-patient, clergy-penitent, and more. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 10:56 am
(Eugene Volokh) So reports the Daily Mail (UK) reports:Residents in Surrey and Kent villages have been ordered by police to remove wire mesh from their windows as burglars could be injured....Locals had reinforced their windows with wire mesh after a series of shed thefts but were told by community police officers that the wire was ‘dangerous’ and could lead to criminals claiming compensation if they ‘hurt themselves’....Here’s the extended quote from… [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 5:06 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A FoxNews story from last week:A Pennsylvania school district has decided not to stage a Tony Award-winning musical about a Muslim street poet after community members complained about the timing so soon after the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.The Richland School District in Johnstown had planned to stage “Kismet” in February, but Superintendent Thomas Fleming said Tuesday that it was scrapped to avoid controversy....Music director Scott… [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 12:25 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A profile by Seth Stern:Most constitutional scholars initially ridiculed [Randy] Barnett’s argument against the individual mandate — that Congress cannot regulate or punish the “inactivity” of not buying something.Few mock it anymore, now that two courts have adopted the same reasoning in ruling against the individual mandate’s constitutionality. [read post]
