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29 Sep 2011, 10:14 pm
(Ilya Somin) Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement that he intends to return to the presidency after the 2012 election has been rightly denounced as a deepening of authoritarianism in Russia. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 12:59 am
(Ilya Somin) Brian Leiter argues that the opportunity to speak at Federalist Society student chapters is an important career advantage for conservative and libertarian academics. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 8:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Institute for Justice, a prominent libertarian public interest law firm, has an important new report detailing the many abuses of property rights in the asset forfeiture system. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 9:35 pm
(Ilya Somin) I was thinking of writing a post on Newt Gingrich’s ill-advised attack on the judiciary. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 2:45 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Cracked.com website has an entertaining article on why alien invasions of Earth portrayed in Hollywood movies virtually always fail. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 12:09 am
(Ilya Somin) Markos Moulitsos of the Daily Kos website has recently revealed that there was probably large-scale data fraud in a series of polls that the Daily Kos commissioned from the Research 2000 polling firm: I have just published a report by three statistics wizards showing, quite convincingly, that the weekly Research 2000 State of the Nation poll we ran the past year and a half was likely bunk.... [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 3:41 pm
(Ilya Somin) At Balkinization, Gerard Magliocca raises a possible slippery slope argument against striking down the individual health insurance mandate (this argument was, I think, first raised in an article by Mark Hall):The most powerful argument against upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandate may be that this will open the door to compulsory broccoli purchases. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 12:19 am
(Ilya Somin) The Institute for Humane Studies has produced a podcast in which I discuss the politics of Star Trek, especially it’s favorable portrayal of socialism, which I previously wrote about here and here. [read post]
18 Jul 2008, 7:29 am
Ilya Somin:LSU law professor John Baker has recently published a report documenting the continued expansion of federal criminal law for the Heritage Foundation. [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 3:30 am
Ilya Somin Do the rights protected by the Constitution constrain United States government actions outside our borders, especially those directed at noncitizens? [read post]
8 Aug 2024, 3:30 am
Ilya Somin If one of the purposes of constitutional law is to protect liberty against abuses of government power, the War on Drugs must be regarded as one of America’s greatest constitutional failures. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 3:30 am
Ilya Somin The coronavirus epidemic has raised urgent questions of constitutional rights and judicial review. [read post]
13 May 2011, 3:36 pm
(Ilya Somin) The debate over the morality and legality of targeted killing has been rekindled by the death of Osama Bin Laden and shows no sign of stopping. [read post]
1 May 2015, 4:37 am
Ilya Somin reviews some of what's been written in the past few days, and capably responds to it, here.All of the argumentative moves that are being made now, and others that people will probably think of in the next few weeks, are considered in an overlong article I wrote in 1994. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 10:13 am
On today’s Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host Craig Williams is joined by Ilya Somin, professor of Law at George Mason University, and Philip L. [read post]
20 Jun 2024, 6:34 pm
And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Ilya Somin has a post titled “Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Sidewalks are not ‘Pedestrian Ways’ — thus Allowing Local Governments to Use Eminent Domain to Take Property to Build Them; The close 4-3 decision might well become a staple of textbooks. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 3:46 pm
(H/T: Ilya Somin, who analyzes the substance of the decision). [read post]
16 Feb 2025, 9:34 am
Barnett and Ilan Wurman (in the NYT), which has an update I put up this morning linking to Ilya Somin's response (in Reason) — "Birthright Citizenship - A Response to Barnett and Wurman" (Reason). [read post]
12 Apr 2021, 11:18 am
Massachusetts’ The Volokh Conspiracy article by Ilya Somin ‘New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Lawsuit Seeking to Prevent Massachusetts from Taxing NH Residents Working Remotely for Massachusetts Firms’ [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 1:35 pm
(Ilya Somin) Jason Kuznicki and Timothy Sandefur have written responses to my post critiquing Kuznicki’s earlier statement that the idea of legal secession is a “category error. [read post]
