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17 Mar 2012, 3:30 pm
(Ilya Somin) Tommorrow from noon to 1 PM Pacific time (3-4 Eastern), I will be appearing on Bob Zadek’s talk radio show in San Francisco to talk about the gay marriage litigation and other related issues. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 9:39 pm
(Ilya Somin) Atheist blogger Leah Libresco has now begun to implement her Turing Test for religion, which I previously wrote about here. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 11:27 am
(Ilya Somin) Reason TV has a short but interesting video about the urban renewal era of the 1950s and 60s, when hundreds of thousands of people — mostly poor minorities — were forcibly displaced from their homes by eminent domain. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 9:21 am
Ilya Somin is of course right that those of us on law faculties below the "Top Fifteen" can do things that have a big impact. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 9:26 pm
(Ilya Somin) This fall I will be teaching Introduction to Property for the first time since Fall 2008. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 6:21 am
[Nina Shea, NRO "Corner"; Ilya Somin, Volokh] Warns Nina Shea: In 2009, the Obama administration had the U.S. co-sponsor with Egypt, which represented the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference], a non-binding hate-speech resolution in the Human Rights Council. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 2:59 am
Ilya Somin analyzes the outcome in the new Cato Supreme Court Review [more, earlier] But who will build the roads? [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 9:05 pm
“Expanding housing and job opportunities by cutting back on zoning” [Ilya Somin on Ed Glaeser Brookings essay] Always hold back and let the government do it. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 10:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent interview, Paul Krugman argued that liberals generally understand conservative arguments better than vice versa:A liberal can talk coherently about what the conservative view is because people like me actually do listen. [read post]
6 Nov 2010, 2:52 pm
(Ilya Somin) Pete Guither has a helpful roundup of reactions to the defeat of Proposition 19, which would have legalized marijuana under California state law. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 7:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) John Samples of the Cato Institute has an interesting recent piece on the conflict between Cato and the Kochs [via Gene Healy]: The politically engaged have offered much commentary on the conflict over the future of the Cato Institute. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 8:42 pm
(Ilya Somin) Democratic Representative Barney Frank and Republican Ron Paul recently introduced a bill that would repeal the federal law banning marijuana:The legislation would eliminate marijuana-specific penalties under federal law, but would maintain a ban on transporting marijuana across state lines. [read post]
29 Oct 2011, 6:06 pm
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger Orin Kerr links to Richard Fallon’s interesting article on the ethics of law professor amicus briefs.Fallon argues that lawprofs are far too quick to sign amicus briefs that fit their ideological proclivities even if they aren’t really expert in the underlying legal issues and sometimes even if they don’t agree with the particular legal argument advanced by the brief. [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 1:51 pm
(Ilya Somin) A recently leaked United Nations report claims that the new rulers of Libya have committed numerous human rights violations: Thousands of people, including women and children, are being illegally detained by rebel militias in Libya, according to a report by the Secretary-General of the United Nations. [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 1:37 pm
[My wife Alison Somin, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, outlines the problem.] [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 9:30 pm
Update: Randy Barnett, Richard Epstein, David Post and Ilya Somin in Adam Liptak's article in this morning's New York Times on Trump's Threat to the Rule of Law. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 10:43 am
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post, co-blogger David Bernstein partially rejects my argument that a ban on same-sex marriage qualifies as sex discrimination. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 5:44 pm
In a recent post at The Volokh Conspiracy (“Public Opinion, the Individual Mandate, and the Supreme Court”), Ilya Somin compares the potential backlash that could be generated by a Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the mandate with the backlash generated by the Kelo case. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 3:17 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post, I expressed my disagreement with co-blogger Sasha Volokh’s view that libertarianism condemns government funding of asteroid defense, pointing out that most prominent libertarian thinkers also disagree with him.Through selective quotation, Brad DeLong tries to make it seem like I endorsed Sasha’s position. [read post]
16 Jul 2010, 10:55 am
(Ilya Somin) Tim Lee has written an interesting response to to my most recent post on liberaltarianism. [read post]
