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20 May 2014, 6:08 am by Bruce Ackerman
(For a recent reevaluation, see Thomas Colby's essay in Northwestern Law Review.)Taken in their own terms, the coercive Article Five exchange between Congress and the states does not establish the constitutional "quality" of the Fourteenth Amendment. [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]
25 Oct 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on James E. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 10:19 am
. * 1660: Thomas Urquhart, Scottish aristocrat, polymath and first translator of Rabelais into English, is said to have died laughing upon hearing that Charles II had taken the throne. * 1671: François Vatel, chef to Louis XIV, committed suicide because his seafood order was late and he couldn’t stand the shame of a postponed meal. [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 8:31 am by Soroush Seifi
  In their book Manufacturing Guilt, Barry and Dawn Anderson quote criminological evidence that on the back of best estimates one percent of all convictions are in fact wrongful.[2]  Andersons write that these include cases that do not distinguish between personal and property offences or between violent and non-violent crimes.[3]  By applying this estimate to Canada, in 2010, 87,214 cases resulted in a sentence of incarceration.[4]  Using the assumption that one per… [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 8:31 am by Soroush Seifi
  In their book Manufacturing Guilt, Barry and Dawn Anderson quote criminological evidence that on the back of best estimates one percent of all convictions are in fact wrongful.[2]  Andersons write that these include cases that do not distinguish between personal and property offences or between violent and non-violent crimes.[3]  By applying this estimate to Canada, in 2010, 87,214 cases resulted in a sentence of incarceration.[4]  Using the assumption that one per… [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 6:23 am by Ryan Goodman
(R-TX) Kevin Brady (R-TX) Tony Gonzales (R-TX) Joe Wilson (R-SC) Barry Moore (R-AL) Robert Aderholt (R-AL) Dan Newhouse (R-WA) Mike Carey (R-OH) Blake Moore (R-UT) Doug Lamborn (R-CO) James Comer (R-KY) Gary Palmer (R-AL) August Pfluger (R-TX) Chris Stewart (R-UT) Ralph Norman (R-SC) Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) Ashley Hinson (R-IA) Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) Brian Babin (R-TX) Jim Banks (R-IN) Cathay McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) Tracey Mann (R-KS) House Resolution 1038 (introduced April 6, 2022)… [read post]
17 Oct 2023, 9:23 am by Sasha Volokh
[Serial-blogging my recent article in the Journal of Free Speech Law] Previously, I blogged the abstract, introduction, and Part I of my new article, Taxing Nudity: Discriminatory Taxes, Secondary Effects, and Tiers of Scrutiny, which has just been published in the Journal of Free Speech Law. [read post]
7 Nov 2017, 7:14 am by Dan Carvajal
Key Findings Government budget deficits absorb a portion of national or global saving, diverting the saving from supporting private investment. [read post]
18 Oct 2021, 7:22 am by Eugene Volokh
[A forthcoming article of mine in the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty.] [read post]
23 Jul 2020, 5:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
Key Findings Allowing companies to fully and immediately deduct investments in structures is one of the most cost-efficient ways lawmakers can stimulate investment, create jobs, and boost GDP during a post-pandemic recovery. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 6:45 am by Rebecca Tushnet
IPSC 2010 Preliminary notes: (1) Usual caveats: I’m missing a lot of interesting stuff, including the things running opposite my own panel; I am not a patent scholar; these are my incomplete notes and my own perspective [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 5:57 am by Eugene Volokh
Washington state criminalizes (among other things) “mak[ing] an electronic communication to … a third party” “with intent to harass, … torment, or embarrass any other person” if the communication is made “[a]nonymously or repeatedly. [read post]
4 Oct 2014, 12:09 pm by Schachtman
Since 1663, the Royal Society has sported the motto:  “Nullius in verba,” on no one’s authority. [read post]