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8 Sep 2010, 8:06 pm
(Ilya Somin) David Bernstein’s post referencing a commenter who greatly overestimates the extent to which the public pays attention to politics reminds me of an interesting comment on political ignorance from Tony Blair’s recently published memoir: The single hardest thing for a practising politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don’t give politics a first thought all day long. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 4:28 pm
In the following guest post, Blair Nicholas and David Kaplan of the Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman law firm advocate that the SEC take an aggressive approach to securities enforcement, and they have a specific proposal to advance that approach. [read post]
6 Jun 2015, 3:22 pm
See David Bernstein, “A regrettable Eleventh Circuit expert testimony ruling, Adams v. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 7:02 am
(David Bernstein) In the process of trying to figure out exactly what is going on in the Koch-Cato dispute, I was struck by one thing: as near as I could figure out, the Kochs, according to Cato itself, had offered a compromise in which each side would choose eight board members. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 5:43 pm
(David Bernstein) Readers will recall the controversy over the University of Chicago’s John Mearsheimer’s endorsement of a recent anti-Semitic book, The Wandering Who, by notorious anti-Semitic provocateur Gilad Atzmon. [read post]
7 May 2011, 9:10 am
(David Bernstein) The nonsense spewing from the various usual suspects–the European left, left-wing NGOs, leftist international law experts [update: here’s an excellent example from an Israeli commentator]–regarding the takedown of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces should provide an important lesson for advocates of Israel.The hostility emanating to Israel emanating from these sources is not, primarily, a result of anti-Semitism or other Jewcentric mental maladies. [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 2:26 pm
(David Bernstein) N.Y. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 6:30 am
” Co-blogger David Bernstein has questioned Black’s greatness a couple of times, so I thought I’d offer a brief explanation. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 10:46 am
(David Bernstein) Via TaxProf, I learn that the ABA Section of Legal Education & Admission to the Bar seeks comments on proposed changes to the law school accreditation standards. [read post]
19 Feb 2012, 4:54 pm
(David Bernstein) According to this article, the Netanyahu government is willing to cede 90% of the West Bank to the Palestinians. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 11:09 am
(David Bernstein) In his Stop the Beach opinion, Justice Scalia writes, “The first problem with using Substantive Due Process to do the work of the Takings Clause is that we have held it cannot be done. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 4:35 am
(David Bernstein) I’ve randomly come across two stories that illustrate a truism about “nonprofits”–their leaders often act a lot like leaders of for-profit organizations, seeking to expand market share and the like. [read post]
26 May 2010, 5:51 am
(David Bernstein) The percentage of blacks marrying whites has risen by 3 times since 1980. [read post]
17 May 2011, 9:41 am
(David Bernstein) A Fairfax County gym teacher was falsely accused of molesting a twelve-year old student who had a vendetta against him, and was prosecuted based on the flimsiest of evidence (basically, the word of the student who held a grudge, and her friend, with contrary eyewitness and physical evidence). [read post]
10 Jul 2010, 8:25 am
(David Bernstein) A few days back, Instapundit linked to this scathing and reasonably entertaining attack on Glenn Greenwald by Benjamin Kerstein. [read post]
31 May 2010, 6:00 am
(David Bernstein) Reading the news this morning, I got a big dose of he said/she said, with Israeli spokesmen claiming that its naval personnel were attacked with clubs and knives, perhaps even live fire, from one of the “peace activist” boats, and spokesmen for the blockade runners claiming, for example to the New York Times, that they would never, ever, engage in any violence. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 4:40 pm
(David Bernstein) I was trying to think of a good example to illustrate the Federal government’s lack of a general police power as opposed to the states’ inherent police power, with an example that doesn’t implicate serious “substantive due process” concerns. [read post]
8 Jul 2012, 8:13 am
(David Bernstein) Tom Smith: “I cannot resist observing that Posner’s lament that conservatives have gone all goofy comes from the guy who proposed setting up a free market in babies. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 6:06 am
(David Bernstein) Stumbled across this at goodreads.com. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 5:38 pm
(David Bernstein) Sorry to keep reiterating this point, but I’ve contended since December 2010 that if the pro-ACA side is unable to articulate a limiting principle that would prevent their decision from giving the federal government an essentially plenary police power to regulate virtually all human activity and inactivity, the individual mandate is doomed. [read post]
