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17 Dec 2010, 7:30 am
(Ilya Somin) Today is the first day of Saturnalia, the ancient Roman holiday that I have traditionally commemorated here at the Volokh Conspiracy (see here, here, and here). [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 7:40 am
(Ilya Somin) Like me, conservative National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg has a generally favorable take on Yale Law Professor Heather Gerken’s progressive case for federalism: A one-size-fits-all policy imposed at the national level has the potential to make very large numbers of citizens unhappy, even if it was arrived at democratically….. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 11:42 am
I want to respond to Ilya Somin's claim that religious leaders need to learn (some version of) economics before opining on social justice. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 10:39 pm
(Ilya Somin) Among the many amicus briefs filed in Supreme Court on the individual mandate case in recent days is this one urging the Court to strike down the mandate, on behalf of a group of supporters of single payer health care. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 6:26 pm
(Ilya Somin) My recently published article “Federalism and Property Rights” is now available on SSRN. [read post]
8 May 2012, 10:03 pm
(Ilya Somin) Big-name literary scholar Stanley Fish has an interesting column on The Hunger Games, the popular series of science fiction novels by Suzanne Collins which has recently been made into a highly successful movie: A couple of weeks ago my daughter visited from California. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 2:21 pm
(Ilya Somin) NYU lawprof Rick Hills has posted a good critique of Brian Leiter’s (and others’) defenses for tenure (for which see here and here). [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 8:26 am
(Ilya Somin) Law Daily Blogger has a list of reasons “Why Big Firms Don’t Blog well. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 4:28 pm
But it turns out that two of those were signed by professors at George Mason (a school with which I have very amicable relations) — a brief co-signed by Ilya Somin on behalf of Prof. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 7:30 am
(Ilya Somin) My new article “Foot Voting, Political Ignorance, and Constitutional Design,” was recently published as part of a symposium on “What Should Constitutions Do? [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 8:42 pm
(Ilya Somin) Yesterday, I pointed out that even many of the liberal Supreme Court justices were skeptical of arguments that the individual mandate qualifies as a tax under the Anti-Injunction Act, and suggested that this was not a good sign for the federal government’s claim that the mandate is a tax authorized by the Tax Clause of the Constitution. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 12:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) Federal district Judge Christopher Connor of the Middle District of Pennsylvania just issued an opinion striking down Obama health care plan individual mandate. [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 8:35 am
New Article: Ilya Somin, Why Growing Government is a Greater Political Menace than Growing Inequality, Boston University Law Review Online, Vol. 28, p. 21-26, 2018. [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 6:49 pm
(Ilya Somin) A new Newsweek/Daily Beast poll of likely voters shows that 50% disapprove of the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act as a whole, compared to 45% who support it. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 3:12 pm
(Ilya Somin) I have previously noted Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s plans to produce a movie based on The Hobbit. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 11:29 am
(Ilya Somin) Newsday has published an op ed I wrote on the 11th Circuit decision striking down the individual mandate. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 7:45 am
(Ilya Somin) Regular VC readers might be interested in knowing just how many briefs in the individual mandate case have been authored by your humble Conspirators. [read post]
Speech at University of Mississippi School of Law on Eminent Domain Referendum Initiative Measure 31
6 Oct 2011, 12:07 pm
(Ilya Somin) On Monday, October 10, I will be speaking at the University of Mississippi School of Law on a Mississippi eminent domain reform referendum initiative, Measure 31 (which is on the ballot this November). [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 10:31 pm
(Ilya Somin) I agree with most of what co-blogger Jonathan Adler says about Cato Chairman Bob Levy’s recent statement on the conflict between the Kochs and the Cato Institute. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 4:15 pm
(Ilya Somin) Yelena Bonner, the widow of Soviet-era dissident Andrei Sakharov, and a prominent dissident in her own right has passed away:Yelena Bonner, a rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died, her daughter said Sunday. [read post]
