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25 Jul 2012, 2:40 pm
UPDATE: A response to this post commits a common fallacy: Today, on the Volokh Conspiracy blog, Ilya Somin trots out an even more extreme idea for decriminalization… creating a legal market in organs. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 4:21 am
Then Ilya Somin took up the call at Volokh Conspiracy, and the issue turned into a real debate. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 6:37 pm
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger Jonathan Adler rounds up some of the commentary discussing how many liberal pundits underestimated the chances of the anti-mandate lawsuits. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 1:47 pm
(Ilya Somin) The New York Times has a forum debating the institution of academic tenure. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 6:30 pm
(Ilya Somin) In today’s Washington Post, George Will describes what I can only call a real whale of an abusive federal criminal prosecution: The huge humpback whale whose friendliness precipitated a surreal seven-year — so far — federal hunt for criminality surely did not feel put upon. [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 8:38 pm
(Ilya Somin) At the Reason website, Kennedy (who apparently has only one name), argues at length that atheism should be considered a religion: [W]hether you make sense of the world as an atheist and don’t require the God postulate to complete your understanding, or you are a theist and your feelings and experiences tell you something greater is there, biologically speaking, that big blob of gray Jell-O in our skulls is like a giant arrow pointing us in the same direction. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 9:11 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent New York Times essay, famous English and law professor Stanley Fish takes aim at student evaluations of professors: [T]hey measure present satisfaction in relation to a set of expectations that may have little to do with the deep efficacy of learning. [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 11:27 am
(Ilya Somin) In an insightful recent post at Land Use Prof Blog, Adam MacLeod takes property scholars to task for neglecting issues of constitutional federalism:When prominent, accomplished land use scholars discuss federalism why do they pay so little attention to the United States Constitution? [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 7:59 pm
(Ilya Somin) Radley Balko has an interesting piece at Huffington Post on the ways in which the War on Drugs creates perverse incentives for police departments: Arresting people for assaults, beatings and robberies doesn’t bring money back to police departments, but drug cases do in a couple of ways. [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 1:07 pm
(Ilya Somin) Richard Epstein and John Yoo have responded to Elizabeth Wurtzel’s critique of the bar exam, which I previously commented on here. [read post]
19 May 2011, 9:46 pm
(Ilya Somin) Famous economist Steven Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics, recently described his “daughter test” for assessing paternalistic policies:Most of the time there is broad agreement as to which activities should be made criminal. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 8:27 pm
(Ilya Somin) In this recent post, University of Texas constitutional law professor Sanford Levinson calls for a reassessment of our federal and state constitutions: [I]nstead of being fixated on what the Constitution means, one instead asks whether the Constitution, given a stipulated meaning that may in fact not be at all difficult to discern, is in fact wise. [read post]
20 Nov 2011, 4:52 pm
(Ilya Somin) Conservative columnist Rich Lowry has an interesting piece on Herman Cain’s ignorance about major public policy: At a meeting with the editors of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Cain was asked whether he agreed with Pres. [read post]
8 Jul 2023, 8:15 am
Here is the AALS description: This webinar will discuss new books in constitutional law by Kermit Roosevelt III, Ilya Somin, Samantha Barbas, and Michael Mannheimer. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 9:03 pm
(Ilya Somin) Bryan Caplan has a interesting post on George Orwell’s portrayal of democracy in his classic work Animal Farm. [read post]
24 Dec 2011, 9:10 am
(Ilya Somin) I am sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings during the holiday season. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 1:53 am
(Ilya Somin) The New Scientist cites proof that the prehistoric “hobbits” whose fossils were recently discovered by scientists in Indonesia were actually a distinct species, and not human [HT: Instapundit]: Case closed — the “hobbits” that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores only 13,000 years ago were a unique species of hominid. [read post]
31 May 2011, 2:43 pm
(Ilya Somin) My article “The Judicial Reaction to Kelo” is now available on SSRN. [read post]
18 Apr 2015, 11:19 am
Per Ilya Somin, there might be: “In two landmark cases in the 1920s, Meyer v. [read post]
31 Dec 2011, 1:05 pm
(Ilya Somin) In addition to being the last day of the year, today is also the twentieth anniversary of the official end of the Soviet Union, when the last Soviet government institutions shut down. [read post]
